Poll: *** The official Apple Watch Series 8 thread (it can detect when you crash your car and everything!) ***

Which Apple Watch Series 8 will you get?

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Anyone have any recommendations for free pedometer for the watch. My Mrs uses pacer but it only seems to update when I open the app on my iPhone. I want something that counts in real time on the watch kind of how I had with my Garmin.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Anyone have any recommendations for free pedometer for the watch. My Mrs uses pacer but it only seems to update when I open the app on my iPhone. I want something that counts in real time on the watch kind of how I had with my Garmin.
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Feek said:
Pedometer++

I have my steps shown as a complication on the watch and it updates regularly, not quite real time but it certainly doesn't rely on me opening an app on the phone.
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You know the activity complication on the watch shows the rings and when you scroll down past the graphs, it shows you the steps? You don't need your phone. :p
 
Feek said:
Yes but all I wanted was a step count I could see on the face and the activity complication doesn't do that.
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Yeah me too, the trouble with mine is it stays on zero until I open the app (on the phone) and then it updates.

I tried updating and looking at the data sources and prioritising them as show here:

Manage Health data on your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch – Apple Support (UK)

You can set up apps and accessories to send data to the Health app, enter data yourself and change how Health prioritises data from these sources.
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but it made no difference.
 
The other thing I wanted to say - I too was a big fan of steps counting on my previous Garmin watch and was disappointed that Apple didn't make it seem so important. But I kind of get why they replaced it with calories now. Any kind of activity gets that red ring move/calories burned up and each week it recommends a goal depending on how you did in the previous week. So now it doesn't bother me that I might only do 5,000 steps one day. As long as I get that red ring closed (currently at 700kcals/day) then I feel like I've been active enough without traipsing round the streets for hours on end (although I still do that in nice weather).

Remember that the whole 10k steps a day thing is just some arbitrary number picked by Japanese health officials to get the population active. I think it's been shown that 7,000 steps at a quick pace is better than 15,000 steps sauntering along.
 
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dannyjo22 said:
I bought the Series 7 last year with the view to replacing my garmin, which is my daily running, cycling and walking watch. I kept the series 7 for 2ish months. I recommend trying one when you can get one around Christmas with the longer returns period. Now I’m new to the apple religion and have since changed everything over to apple in my house. I love my apple gear but I’m a complete hater of the watch.

I think it‘s inferior as a sports watch to even the lower level garmins. I don’t know what I was expecting from the watch though tbh and everything I did want my garmin already did better for sports and adequately for other features. I have two other Apple Watch users in the house and all I ever see them do is get a notification and then pick up the phone which is on them or a mere foot away! The garmin will do that.

What it won’t do is unlock your Mac. The hours it would have saved me typing in password1!

My Garmin will last 10 years, even 4-5 years later the battery will last me 2 weeks. With frequent excercise I normally get 7-9 days. It never has to come off my wrist in that time for sleep tracking if I so cared. Not sure why everyone has become so obsessed about sleep tracking, but that’s another conversation. You won’t worry about scratches and as they are flat faced you can put a protector on if you want and not look any different or reduce functionality.

Apple watches have become consumable throwaway tech. My wife and son’s SE and Series 5 are both about done. My wife charges hers before bed for that magical sleep tracking that she does nothing about and the watch is out of juice before she gets home and all she does is what I see 99% of other watch users do, get a notification and pick up the phone.

Ok so it means I run with my phone as well, but after my 39 year old running partner had a stroke I sure as hell would never run outside of a populated area without one anyway! That non cellular sports watch wouldn’t have been much use!

I also prefer garmin connect over the apple health bloat. Personal choice.

Ask yourself what you actually want the phone to do that your garmin can’t do, then use the Christmas rental service and see if you like it enough to keep replacing it every 3 years. Or pay for a battery change.
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These posts from you and I aged well didn't they. Both ended up getting an Apple Watch after all and ditching the Garmins.
 
ic1male said:
These posts from you and I aged well didn't they. Both ended up getting an Apple Watch after all and ditching the Garmins.
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I have to be careful here, my Mrs got a bonus from work and bought me it as a present as I'd started using fitness+ I'm still not impressed tbh. The Garmin doesn't track that stuff as well but every thing else it does miles better. I'm genuinely toying with wearing both. I will give it a few months and if I still cannot get functionality like I can from my Garmin I will feed it down to my son.

Even after the update I'm still get weak signal errors unlocking my Mac, which looking at Mac Rumors forum is common. I'm struggling to think of any gains outside of fitness+ tracking.
 
I think the only thing I miss so far about my Forerunner is the recovery time, when it used to say how many hours rest you should have before attempting another run. Otherwise I am not really aware what the more expensive Garmin watches do so I’m overjoyed with the Apple Watch.
 
Barks said:
Each to their own but I don't see the need for a case and it looks pretty bad IMO.

My Apple Watch doesn't have a mark in it and I lift weights 4-5 times a week and constantly knock it on things.

I do have a case on my phone but only when in the gym otherwise it's naked most of the time. I don't think there's any need to be paranoid about damaging them unless you are making a conscious effort to. My 12 Pro Max launched out my jacket pocket in a church during a wedding, landed on a marble floor and didn't have a single mark on it, pretty sure it wasn't divine intervention... and I mean the not being damaged part not the launching out my pocket, that was an exaggerated hand gesture.
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This is my series 4. Never dropped it. Run with it, lift weights etc, same as you. I've had the apple care on it, and when the last screen looked bad enough a few days before the apple care was due to expire, I went in and paid the £50 to get the replacement watch. This is what the replacement looks like.

Just for balance.
 
My Apple Watch SE Gen 2 is the only Apple device I have that is showing battery degradation so far. I'm curious about the battery for people with the Apple Watch Series 8 and the Ultra. Is yours showing battery degradation?
 
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