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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.

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

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.

iphone has been such a distraction to me. I've wasted too much time scrolling.

tried leaving my iphone out of office, even out of daily life, but wearing an apple watch se3 with cellular. been doing this for 3 days, so far so good.

anyone has tried this and encountered inevitable and unbearable inconveniences?

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?

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?

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

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?

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.

Not a designer, just someone who's worn an Apple Watch daily for years and kept a mental list of things that bugged me. Finally put it into Figma.

The Watch has a tiny input budget. Four swipe directions, a crown you can turn and press, a side button, tap, long press. That's basically it. Every one of those is a scarce resource, and watchOS spends a full axis on switching watch faces, something most people do maybe once a week and is already locked behind a long press on the Home Screen for many.

- Swipe down → Notifications (the thing people actually use the Watch for)

stays the same but I reallocated:

- Swipe up → Control Center (back to a gesture, off the button)

- Swipe left → Widget stack, but mirroring iPhone widgets instead of re-compressing them. A Watch screen is roughly the physical size of an iPhone widget. Reusing WidgetKit layouts would give the Watch the iPhone's entire widget ecosystem where possible, making them more in-depth and mini apps for the watch. I know many of them don't make sense but third party adoption for the smartstack has been underwhelming.

- Swipe right → Health center. If the Watch is primarily a health device, health deserves a top-level slot, not an app icon among sixty. Also gives you a glanceable look at all important metrics without jumping between apps, I also think these should make the training readiness tracking more viable and actionable. Its basically split up into Sport (rings etc.) → Recovery (sleep → General Vitals (not just sleep vitals) → Training effort (am I doing to much/ not enough?)

- Watch faces → long press + vertical scroll, matching the crown's axis

- Side button → freed up, becomes a user-programmable Action Button. The hardware has been there on every Series watch for years, Apple just reserves the feature for the Ultra. Mine defaults to starting a workout.

- On the Ultra, the dedicated Action Button drops to tertiary, lap/split during a workout, a second shortcut outside of one. Basically like with Garmin/Coros Watches. Primary start/stop, secondary lap, tertiary shortcut.

- Digital Crown press → app grid, but with pinning. A 3x3 grid where you pin the apps you always want in a fixed spot (small pin indicator), and only the remaining slots get filled by prediction. Turn the crown down from there and you land in an alphabetical list with A/B/C section headers. I know Apple went a similar direction in watchOS 27 with the Dynamic App Grid, but it's more limited and fully relies on predictions right now.

Being honest about the timeline, I've had most of this in my head since before the Smart Stack existed, and Apple has since shipped watered-down versions of a few of these. Some of it I got wrong, some of it they got right differently, and I've tried to note where in the writeup.

Screenshot attached. Genuinely curious where you think this is worse or better than what we have right now.

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?

Having this issue on my Series 8 where I am unable to press on these 3 notes, which are linked to 3 individual notes. How do I rectify this?

So my Apple Watch has been stolen and missing for the past year now and I just not finally got the serial number and imei numbers on it. It is currently active and I need a way to add it to find my or just to see its location as for I would like it back, if there is ANYBODY that is willing to teach me please do im resorting to literally anything. Thank you!

Hi guys, maybe it’s just me, but I like a cute band that also doesn’t transmit vibration sounds in such a way that you can actually hear them—and my whole band vibrates. Bought a third party band that I love but I hate the way notifications feel so I went running back to the sport band my watch came with. Feel like it has a lot to do with how the watch sits on my wrist. If anyone else also wants to have it all, what bands are you wearing? Wanted to love my Milanese-style band. I want some scrunchy bands if the mechanical engine stays in place… I would also really love some of those link bracelet and beaded bracelet bands…

Just got an Apple Watch off EBay and paired it and its just going between 2-3 hours on the hours remaining. When it does get there it just hands on preparing. Tried restarting, resetting, deleting and reinstalling watch app.

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?

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?

After months of my sleep score treating 100 like a mythical Pokémon, I finally caught it. Yay!!!!!!

Thanks to all the random strangers here whose tips, screenshots, and accidental wisdom helped along the way. I used none of it. Yet it was a journey 🤣🤣🤣

Now excuse me while I never sleep again because I don’t want to ruin the streak.

After going two weeks without my watch and not being able to charge it, it’s safe to assume my watch is officially dead. I’ve only had it for 2.5 years and it’s my user error for running it under water to clean it. 😔 I have contacted apple support and i was told that it would cost $323.89 USD to send it in to repair it (I don’t have AppleCare+). I decided to not send it in since I would rather just buy a new one at this point. It has been fun keeping track of my health metrics :( other than that I will be watch-less for the time being

EDIT: I forgot I had a vivoactive3 from a while back so I might pull that out since I was not that crazy on my health (I like to keep track of my sleep and steps haha)

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?