to complete the Apple ecosystem and telling people that I am an iFan 😂

It’s a very solid companion device for the iPhone. You don’t need your phone in your hand to check notifications, send messages, or make calls. It has a slew of fitness features and health tracking if you’re into that stuff.

It’s the kind of device that’s hard to understand its true value until you have one and use it. If your friends have one you can have fitness competitions, or use the walkie talkie feature. They’re the most widely supported smart watch, with so many band options to suit your style and needs.

If you have the Ultra you get mob boss respect.

When there is a notification, I can use my apple watch to separate out notifications that I need to immediately respond (e.g. important message/call from work or family) vs ones I can take care of later without taking out my phone. Before having the apple watch, I have to take out my phone every time when there is a notification.

I also use Apple pay with the watch all the time without taking out my phone.

Both of these use cases works with non-cellular version as well. Of course you’ll need your phone nearby or have wifi so you can receive messages, but it doesn’t require you to have a cellular watch or have the cellular plan on the watch.

I feel like something is missing when I’m not wearing it. I go to check the time, my notifications, the weather forecast, use it as a handy torch, controls my music when at the gym, an alarm that vibrates so won’t wake up my wife when I go to the gym early etc etc, the list goes on and I’m far from a power user.

I always wanted to have one but I was like its a waste of money. Until now. Recently I purchased the newest SE during a black friday session. And now I cannot imagine my phone without the watch. Probably the best iphone accessory ever. It reduces phone screentine, I just check the notification and do not grab up the phone and scroll it immediately. Or I can reply from it. I can also pay with my watch. My phone screen on time is now seriously the half of my average since i have the AW. Also the sport modes for various activites are insanely great and its a great motivation too.

Fitness tracking and not needing to take phone with me going for a walk or exercising outside.

The Apple Watch is not an iPhone replacement, it is a different device.

I primarily use the Apple Watch for clock features (time, alarms, and timers), checking the weather, tracking my Health and Fitness (workouts, activities, nutrition, sleep, and recovery), listening to music and podcasts, and getting a few notifications.

I love the possibility of getting away of the phone and screen addiction. I usually go outside just with my LTE Apple Watch. Lifechanger for me.

I use it mostly for notifications. I leave the sound off on my phone and get vibration notifications on my watch. Discrete but I don’t miss anything.

Text message notifications on your watch are nice because you don’t have to look at your phone. It’s great while working. Quick glance at the watch without opening the whole phone and getting distracted.

It’s a good watch too. I have three times zones on it and today’s date. That’s a real utility for me.

Exercise tracking is decent.

The breath app is great for relaxation.

Mine is 4 years old and still going strong.

So I do not have to take my phone out when I go running. Listen to the music from the watch. Also if I go out for the evening I do not need to carry the phone. Lots of benefits having one.

If you need people to list it out you don’t need it. Or you can take 2 seconds to Google it and read a few reviews and some info about it. And then decide if it will work for you. You don’t need Reddit to regurgitate the feature list as it’s available and you can watch some reviews and/or pop in a store and check it out.

I have one and quite like it but honestly it’s overrated and overpriced.

A lot of these features are enhanced if you have na iPhone, so I’ll assume that you do.

• Fitness tracking (but can be achieved with other fitness watches)

• Quick messaging including answering calls (useful for me while driving). Possible with other smart watches also.

• Activate Siri without needing phone for simple tasks like timers, reminders (useful while cooking)

• Shortcuts: I have some home automations in place which is quicker to trigger from the watch.

• I use Focus Modes a lot so the watch enables quick toggles.

• Sleep tracking: I like to assess my quality of sleep vs my mood for the day and see if I can identify any correlations.

• Automatic login into my Mac Mini.

The real value of an Apple Watch is being able to combine all of these and more into one device. If you only care for specific features, then almost any smart watch would suffice. I have the wifi only SE2 and I love it. I only take it off to charge when I’m showering.