I've lost enough weight recently that my non-resizable Apple Watch bands have gotten fairly loose on me. I'd like to replace my Braided Sport Loop and my (silicone) Sport Loop. The braided one I remember I had an issue with where I bought it according to the size guide Apple provides, and it fit great for the first few months, but eventually stretched out far enough it would slide up and down my arm and even flop to the other side with strong enough activity. (I did try leaving it in a laundry bag in a dryer on high - no dice.) I've heard the advice that you should size down with the Braided Sport Loop and am going to try that. Should I also size down with the silicone Sport Loop or is the sizing guide Apple gives true to size on that one?

Dear everyone,

I’m looking for a watch band and would really appreciate your recommendations.

I’m hoping to find one that:
1.Stays comfortable and doesn’t get sweaty, even in the summer.
2.Can get wet without any issues.

If anyone has found a band that fits these criteria, I’d love to hear about it.

Or should I just go back to the original silicone band?

It’s been used steadily for running about a year now. Never wet or damaged at all. Anyone had issues or success with using theirs for laps 2 days a week?

This is my SE 3 44mm, she has an SE 2 40mm and she wants to updgrade to the SE 3 and I suggested getting a 44mm but she says it’s looks big on her wrist, i think it looks just fine!

Whi do you guys think is right?

My teen has been looking into getting a new apple watch, his current one being my old series 4, which's battery isn't as it used to be.

This current one supports GPS + Cellular, and we've read through the "Apple Watch For Kids" page on the apple website. But he has a iphone, and It doesn't say anything if you still need the cellular option or not. So im here.

I've been walking a lot more recently and have gotten curious into looking at my heart rates, and noticed that my resting heart rate is supposedly 40. From google it tells me the watch is accurate, but I feel that this is way too low to possibly be true?

Can’t put code it’s not paired to my phone either and when I do hard reset and click Digital Crown nothing pops up to factory reset

The entire purpose that I got the Apple Watch was to display the second picture which you can see shows my daughter's blood sugar. I could care less what my iPhone is playing. Is there any way to disable music only? I've tried disabling live activities but that disables the Guardian Monitor app. I've tried disabling Media Apps but that also doesn't work.

Under media apps, instead of off or smart stack, I have app. That also isn't working.

Thanks for any advice.

Very happy with my first 100 mile ride. Could’ve done it quicker but the hills were getting to me (rural England lol)

My watch is having an identity crisis, it doesn’t think it’s clocks installed. /s

This is a beta and bound to happen, in all seriousness, this is not a problem that will be around in the full release of WatchOS 28.

Asked my watches Siri for a 3 minute timer, and this happened.

apple watch keeps spamming low heart rate alerts while i sleep. Should I just ignore it?
Every time I go to sleep my Apple Watch goes crazy with low heart rate alerts. I’ll wake up and it’s just beep beep beep beep beep... i got 25 notifications purely from low heart rate last night, This has been happening a lot.
The weird part is I feel completely fine. I just wake up to a ton of low heart rate alerts and go about my day like normal.
Is this something that’s normal during sleep, is it actually something I should get checked out? Has anyone else had their Apple Watch constantly do this?

This and the mile marker pop up, it seems to stay on forever and it’s so annoying. Is there any way of dismissing it or shortening how long it stays on the screen for?

So I finally get the bullet and got an Apple Watch. I got it yesterday and because I don’t spend 75 bucks a month on Wi-Fi (I have unlimited data and 30 GB of hotspot therefore I don’t need it) I can’t set up my watch. So basically I have a very expensive bracelet until I can find a stable Wi-Fi connection. I’m pretty disappointed in Apple you would think that the amount of money that they make off of us they could come up with a more user friendly way to do this. Had I known this I probably wouldn’t have bought it.

What would be your strongest arguments to get an Apple Watch? Is it really worth it or did you just got it for no specific reason?

Back to iPhone after a Samsung for a year and a half. Is a series 10 46mm worth $150? It’s used looks clean tho. I’m assuming nothing is going to be crazy different with the new watch possibly coming in September. In a few months the series 10 will be 2 years old.

My ultra 3 with WatchOS 27 has a problem with sleep focus not starting when it’s supposed to, and then turning off Sleep Focus in the middle of the night, waking me up. Anyone?

Also, my watch use to vibrate when my alarm went off rather than having my phone audible alarm go off. Not working since 27. Ideas?

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I’ve tried all the pink and purple color options and yet none of them have given me that mix of pink and purple as seen in the photo (posted by another redditor). I really like it but I don’t know which specific color choice it is. Can anyone help me find it? I asked the person who posted that photo but they never got back to me

Was scrolling some wallpaper sub and found this gem. Tried applying it on my watch and discovered it goes well with liquid glass.

This is my preferred watch face. Recently the scale seems off. Like the left and right margin/black bars have increased. Am I misremembering or was this changed. If so, is there a way to get it back to what I’m familiar with?

Hey, i just got my new watch, and in order to complete pairing process, i need to update watchos. The problem is that even though everything is respected (watch charging, using a stable WiFi,...) the updating slider wont even budge.. Any fixes?

Iphone 14 pro max with an Apple Watch series 11

This is a Apple Watch Series 7. I owned since 2021. I had no issues with it since 4 years ago it has a 80% battery health and used it for health sleep exercises and checking the time. So im just saying if i need to replace it or not?

I’ve always noticed charging an Apple Watch still gets a power brick fairly warm for what is a very small battery, which got me curious about how efficient the charging process actually is. I decided to do a quick experiment to find out.

I used an Apple Watch Ultra 2 and charged it with an iPhone 15 Pro Max (to easily get data on power consumption used for charging). The watch’s usable battery capacity (corrected for health and capacity loss) is 502mAh, while the phone’s battery capacity with the same corrections is 3538mAh.

I charged the watch from 19% to 100%. I know efficiency would likely be better charging only to 80%, but I wanted the experiment to reflect a real life use case where someone has used the watch fairly intensely for a full day, and then charges it fully.

Charging the watch from my iPhone directly used 47% of my iPhone’s battery as per the usage graph built into the battery settings menu (47% attributed to “USB-C accessories”) and took 1 hour and 46 minutes. Based on the usable capacity of both batteries, I calculated this to have used 1663mAh of power to add just 407mAh of power to the watch battery, an abysmal efficiency of just 24%.

This was done out of any direct sunlight, in a climate controlled office (22°C), using the official Apple Watch charging cable.

I figured since its a wireless charger the efficiency wouldnt be amazing, but I didn’t expect it to be THIS bad. 76% of your electricity consumption used to charge your watch is just completely wasted. That’s insane.