Yea I have a series 8 cellular watch with nike white/platinum band . I also combined it with my iPad mini 6 to replace my iPhone. The mobility of the Apple swatch series 8 41mm with the productivity of the iPad mini 6 is an incredible combo imo. My watch settings are set to the following - grayscale, no app background refresh, no Bluetooth, low brightness, and screen is black out entire day and will only come on when the crown is pressed. Because of these settings my watch lasts the entire day (easily) (on its own). I can make 1-2 phone calls or more, use Apple Pay, iMessage, check bank balances, and use goggle maps. Like you said if you combine it with the iPad mini 6 with cellular connection you can hotspot it to your watch as a wifi connection to save the watch’s battery life. You can also connect the watch to your wifi in your workplace and gym. This way it can save you battery life and you don’t have to pay a cellphone bill either as you can text and call through iMessage. Hope this helps.
I’ve had my watch for over a month now and it’s great as a standalone device. The thing I have to remember to do is turn off my phone as I enter my house. I use my watch only except when I go out and know that I’m going to need a something extra.
Useful, thanks! I've been thinking about getting an LTE Apple Watch to decrease unintended browsing/scrolling sessions on my phone, while still getting important notifications and calls.
Great video. I only missed info about where your iPhone is during all the use. Last time I tried this, if the iPhone died back home, the watch face stopped getting updates, and I did not receive “real SMS’s”. I read somewhere SMS is still not directly receivable on the latest model?
Hi there! Welcome to the channel :) my iPhone lives mostly inside a drawer connected to power to stop this exact problem. SMS will only work while the phone is connected to the internet, correct!
Yes with the iPhone off SMS won’t work, calls will work fine. WhatsApp also doesn’t work on the watch with the iPhone off as there’s no Apple Watch app for WhatsApp 🤷🏻♂️
Great review! I just got mine a week ago for a replacement to my phone 90% of the time. So far it’s working out good and I feel more disconnected from tech.
@@amirullahamirul7195 I pretty much get exactly one day out of it during normal use from 100%. Because I use if for sleep tracking though, that’s practically never my use case, so I usually charge it a bit in the morning and a bit in the evening. How has it been for you? :)
Great review! Very informational. Would love to see an update video after having for 6+ months. I am looking into getting the Apple Watch 7 with cellular but wanted to know your thoughts on whether I should wait for the series 8 for possibly better specs/features or for a possible price decrease in the series 7. Thanks
G'day Mate! What an interesting video. You are definitely not attached to your phone! hahaha - Love this. I like the idea of connectivity between the iPad and Apple Watch (re: fitness data!) - nice one. I agree that improved development for the Apple Watch with 3rd party developers would be fantastic. Plus I notice you've hit 100 subscribers! Congrats, my friend! For me, I'm not going down the path of a phone replacement. I got the Apple Series 7 Watch errrr 1.5 months ago I think now. It's fantastic love it. Having come from a series 3 - It was such a massive jump for my wife and I. Well done again on your great content, keep doing what you're doing!
Morning Benjamin ☺️ Great to see you sticking around on my channel - thanks for that 👌 Also yeah - super happy about the 100 subscribers 🥳 my girlfriend and I are trying to come up with something cool for a 100-subscriber-party - any ideas? 😛 Take care and stay safe :)
@@FlorianBodlee Good Morning my friend :-) No problems about sticking around! Happy to support content creators - Something that I couldn't do! hahaha. re: the 100 subscriber party! lol - Unfortunately not! Just keep that content coming out. Yes, keeping safe here in Australia! I'm actually enjoying a much needed day off - Registered Nurse here - However, previously spent 30 years in Technology (programming, analyst, solution design, service delivery, project/program and product management). I loved it, don't get me wrong, but nice to have a job that you can actually leave at work! hahaha.
Hey Adrien, welcome to the channel 🥳 Yeah it sure will! Please let me know how your experience with the setup is once you gave it a shot :) Would love to know!
Hey there and welcome to the channel! 🥳 I’d love to hear a little more what exactly you mean by “approach”, s.t. I can extend on that in the future 👌🏼 thanks in advance and best of luck with the Watch if you get one 🥳
I've been contemplating using a smartwatch as a standalone device for a long time, and your video definitely helped me make a decision. Once my current phone is paid off, I'll switch to Apple and exclusively use the Watch. Thank you for the video! My only question now is whether to get the Apple Watch 7 or the Apple Watch SE. I know you endorse the roughly 30% faster charging speed of the Watch 7, yet it's almost US $200 more expensive than the Watch SE, and the charging speed seems to be the only significant difference between the two. Do you have any experience or knowledge of using the Watch SE as a standalone device? Is the 30% faster charging speed worth the $200 difference?
Hi there and welcome to the channel! Happy to hear I was able to help :) I’ve been doing this whole thing for a couple of years now with the Series 4 and I can say with 100% confidence that the charging speed makes all the difference. With the Series 4 I always struggled to get through the day and for some time I even used 2 Apple Watches and switched back and forth between them because I couldn’t make it work with one. In the beginning you might be ok with the SE as well but once the battery degrades it will be a struggle every day and won’t be much fun. If you can somehow afford it, go with the S7. Not only will you have a much much better experience with the battery system but the screen is also a lot nicer and always-on, at least in my opinion, is also pretty cool because you get to show off your watch faces :)
Great question! TLDR; 100% yes if your provider supports Wifi calling and a 90% confident yes otherwise ☺️ You will still receive regular calls even on Wifi in my experience. I just ran a quick test to verify a hunch I had. My carrier supports Wifi calling and I can confirm after a test call and checking my network logs that the Apple Watch indeed supports and uses Wifi calling. This then means that with my carrier (and most others), the watch can completely shut down the cellular modem and still receive normal voice calls. I would very much expect that it would still receive cellular calls on Wifi even with a carrier that doesn’t support Wifi calling but I honestly have no way of checking as I don’t see a setting for this in the Watch settings…
@@FlorianBodlee Thanks for the reply and for taking the time to test it. My carrier also has wifi calls. So I feel more relaxed and more certain about this topic. Thanks again for your availability.
Great video, u earned a sub. I've got one question though. If i turn off cellular at times when i don't want to receive messages in order to save battery, can i still get called if let's say somebody want's to speak with me really urgent?
Hi there, thanks and welcome to the channel! 🥳 no, Apple Wach used Voice over LTE, which means that turning off cellular data also turns off the calling capabilities. Hope this info helps =)
I am trying this again with my AW6. Unfortunately my (smaller) language does not appear to be supported by swipe keyboards. Yes, taking the Apple watch with my iPad (mini 6) in the bag is a powerful combo. Love the freedom of taking just the watch with me in my spare time. If in very public places I sometimes bring my AirPods too.
Totally! AirPods are necessary with this combo imo. The swipe keyboard is only available on Series 7 afaik. My S4 didn’t show it at least. Furthermore, afaik, it’s only available in English 🤷🏻♂️ it’s a shame honestly, hope they fix both of these points soon! :)
I have been thinking about going iPhone-free for quite a while and keep wondering if it would really be practical. I look forward to future updates, Florian! I am curious, outside of the first-party apps that are available, how many 3rd-party apps support Family Setup? Is there a way to determine ahead of time if a specific app supports Family Setup?
I too like the idea of using the Apple Watch as a stand alone device. Unfortunately in the USA, you have to be with a big mobile carrier to get an Apple Watch cellular plan. And it is only available as an add on to a phone plan. So I would have to drop my discount carrier, get a more expensive large mobile carrier, then pay the extra $10 a month for Apple Watch cellular. The watch, the cellular service… adds up to over $1,000 over what I am currently spending over two years. So I’m sticking with just a phone for now.
Hey there! Yeah that’s a pretty compelling argument against the watch! I’ll look into some phone plans in the US out of curiosity but at least here in Germany (can’t believe I’m saying this, normally these things are always more complicated here), you can pretty much get an eSIM for the watch at a random supermarket 😅 Sorry to hear you can’t give this a shot but there’s honestly also nothing wrong with sticking with your phone for now! Best of luck and welcome to the channel 🥳
I have the phone and watch and pay 25 for the phone and 5 for the watch. That’s $30 a month with visible and that’s in the US. Everything works great, uses Verizon towers for service.
I use my series 7 with my iPad mini 6.. no Watch app on iPad so you NEED an iPhone to set it up. No SMS texting unless your iPhone has a cellular connection because the Watch forces SMS messages to send through iPhone instead of the Watch itself.
Yes you’re completely right! An iPhone has to be connected to the internet at all times; mine mostly rests on the charger though and then most things work no problem… But yeah as you said - I also wish I could just pair the watch with the iPad directly!
I am considering to buy an Apple Watch with GPS connectivity only. I think it would be more convenient for me to have my watch tether off of my iPhone instead of buying an additional cellular plan.
That is really fair enough! I still think going Apple Watch only is a niche use case and it‘s definitely a bit more convenient at times having the iPhone as well ;) My provider luckily allows me to have free additional eSIMs on my contract; so I have no additional cost for using my cellular iPad and Apple Watch on top of my iPhone. It‘s one phone plan that covers it all. Obviously it gets significantly less attractive if you have to pay on top!
Hi, interesting video! Love the Apple Watch and I’m craving for more people to embrace it as an independent device. Hope developers can invest they’re creativity in making this a easier for us, along side Apple. I see you use Notion, and for task management? Do you use reminders, to be able to use it independently? Thanks and congrats from Portugal
Hi Hugo :) Welcome to the channel, thank you for watching and happy to hear you enjoyed it! I actually do use Notion (rarely) on the Watch through Shortcuts. It’s a little buggy - as in, it crashes and reloads the page more often then I’d like - but surprisingly, it’s usable if I REALLY need it. I usually have an iPad Pro with me and the point where I want to put something into Notion or look at my todo list etc. is usually also the point where I’m more than happy to take the iPad out of my bag and make use of the bigger screen. The theme of “usable if I REALLY need it” is kinda where I’m going with this whole Apple Watch as an independent device thing. I talked about this a little in my video on the tech I use every day and I will for sure create another video going into more detail. By making things such as mindless social media scrolling and pointless chatting cumbersome to some degree, using the Apple Watch and not a smartphone keeps me focused on what I want to do intentionally and doesn’t draw me into those “infinity pools” (great book by the way; Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky). However, if I’m on the go and someone really needs to reach me, I really need to reply to an email, or yes, even put something into Notion, the Apple Watch can do it :) Let me know if you wanna know more about how exactly I make this work - more than happy to help you out! ☺️ Cheers from Germany and have a great day!
Alright, here’s how you do it; there are a couple of ways: --- Open Notion: 1. Open Shortcuts on the paired iPhone 2. Create a new shortcut 3. Name it e.g. Notion and give it a fitting icon 4. Search for the action „Show Web Page“ and drag it into the shortcut 5. Put the Notion-URL as the only parameter 6. Go to the shortcut settings and make sure you have „Show on Apple Watch“ ticked -> this will allow you to run the shortcut in the watch‘s shortcut app and will bring you to the Notion homepage on the first run. Just log in and you’ll arrive on the homepage. Earlier versions of WatchOS weren’t able to store cookies; the newer ones are, so the next time you open the shortcut you‘ll arrive on your Notion homepage. --- Bookmark a specific Notion page: Same procedure as above except that in step 5 you paste the Page‘s URL --- Open any website on the watch: 1. Follow steps 1-3. I named this shortcut „Safari“ 2. Use the action „Ask for Input“. The first parameter should be set to „Text“ the second to e.g. „Enter website“ 3. Use the action „Show Webpage“ and as the only parameter use the variable „Provided Input“ -> this shortcut now effectively starts a Safari browser on your watch, including going back and forth, reloading pages, cookies, text entry, the real deal. It just doesn’t support videos and some fonts look a bit wonky. But it’s surprisingly usable! --- Make a „Homescreen“ with web-apps: 1. Create a watch face „Infograph“ because it holds the most complications. 2. Add each shortcut somewhere on the watch face as a complication; e.g. I have Safari, Notion, and Instagram here. Again, surprisingly usable solution and almost feels like using the actual apps. --- Hugo, let me know if this worked for you! Cheers 🥳
I can tell you for sure that it can definitely be used without the phone being connected! I acknowledge that that's probably not the intended use case but it does work for sure as long as the phone is powered on and connected to the internet, every function that the watch has pretty much just works. With the exception of apps that haven't been updated in years...
Hi there :) no, I don’t have any play that’d be worth mentioning on any of my bands with the Series 7. But note that I’ve seen a lot of play with different cheaper 3rd party bands…
@@FlorianBodlee thank you! I seem to have some play with official Apple sports band. I may need to talk to customer service. I very much appreciate your detailed and thorough review and look forward to your long term review of the S7 watch. Probst 🍺
@@FlorianBodlee Bitte mach wieder so ein prima Video zur Watch Ultra. Ich debattiere gerade nur der Uhr wegen ins Apple Ökosystem zu wechseln. Also irgendein gebrauchtes iPhone X zu kaufen als Backup und am Tag nur die Apple Watch und mein Surface zu benutzen. Fitness und Schlafüberwachung sind mir vollkommen egal, wichtig ist mir nur auf Whatsapp/SMS/Anruf erreichbar zu sein ohne dass ich mehrmals täglich laden muss. Spitze Review zur 7er Watch.
Gut möglich - bei sowas sind sie tendenziell bisschen langsam und Deutsch kommt ja meistens erst nachgereicht. Benutze auch Siri immer auf Englisch weil einfach mehr geht… bleibt wohl nichts als warten 🤷🏻♂️
Yea I have a series 8 cellular watch with nike white/platinum band . I also combined it with my iPad mini 6 to replace my iPhone. The mobility of the Apple swatch series 8 41mm with the productivity of the iPad mini 6 is an incredible combo imo. My watch settings are set to the following - grayscale, no app background refresh, no Bluetooth, low brightness, and screen is black out entire day and will only come on when the crown is pressed. Because of these settings my watch lasts the entire day (easily) (on its own). I can make 1-2 phone calls or more, use Apple Pay, iMessage, check bank balances, and use goggle maps. Like you said if you combine it with the iPad mini 6 with cellular connection you can hotspot it to your watch as a wifi connection to save the watch’s battery life. You can also connect the watch to your wifi in your workplace and gym. This way it can save you battery life and you don’t have to pay a cellphone bill either as you can text and call through iMessage. Hope this helps.
Your review is clear, concise, and very informative. Subscribed!
Thanks Brian!! Happy to hear and welcome to the channel 🥳🥳
Very good video with lots of detailed information
Best Apple Watch standalone device review that I’ve seen. Really helpful! Thank you.
I’ve had my watch for over a month now and it’s great as a standalone device. The thing I have to remember to do is turn off my phone as I enter my house. I use my watch only except when I go out and know that I’m going to need a something extra.
Awesome Patrick! Happy to hear you’re enjoying it and it’s working for you :)
This is exactly the review that I have been looking for. Thank you very much 😀
Happy to hear Michael! Welcome to the channel :)
great detailed and well thought out review - thanks. Very helpful.
Happy to hear you enjoyed it! Welcome to the channel :)
Useful, thanks! I've been thinking about getting an LTE Apple Watch to decrease unintended browsing/scrolling sessions on my phone, while still getting important notifications and calls.
Great video! Im waiting for more content from you!
Thank you Jakub and welcome to the channel! I’m working on new content - stay tuned :)
Great video. I only missed info about where your iPhone is during all the use. Last time I tried this, if the iPhone died back home, the watch face stopped getting updates, and I did not receive “real SMS’s”. I read somewhere SMS is still not directly receivable on the latest model?
Hi there! Welcome to the channel :) my iPhone lives mostly inside a drawer connected to power to stop this exact problem. SMS will only work while the phone is connected to the internet, correct!
Holy… please correct me if I’m wrong. I can receive calls, but I can’t receive and answer sms ? This makes no sense. What about WhatsApp ?
Yes with the iPhone off SMS won’t work, calls will work fine. WhatsApp also doesn’t work on the watch with the iPhone off as there’s no Apple Watch app for WhatsApp 🤷🏻♂️
Great review! I just got mine a week ago for a replacement to my phone 90% of the time. So far it’s working out good and I feel more disconnected from tech.
Exactly my experience! Happy to hear you enjoyed it and even more that you‘re also happy with using the watch this way! 😍
How about batery life?its drain fast?what hour you can get it?
@@amirullahamirul7195 I pretty much get exactly one day out of it during normal use from 100%. Because I use if for sleep tracking though, that’s practically never my use case, so I usually charge it a bit in the morning and a bit in the evening. How has it been for you? :)
It's ironic how having a computer strapped to your wrist makes you feel more disconnected
It is ironic indeed 😂
Great review! Very informational. Would love to see an update video after having for 6+ months.
I am looking into getting the Apple Watch 7 with cellular but wanted to know your thoughts on whether I should wait for the series 8 for possibly better specs/features or for a possible price decrease in the series 7. Thanks
G'day Mate!
What an interesting video. You are definitely not attached to your phone! hahaha - Love this. I like the idea of connectivity between the iPad and Apple Watch (re: fitness data!) - nice one.
I agree that improved development for the Apple Watch with 3rd party developers would be fantastic.
Plus I notice you've hit 100 subscribers! Congrats, my friend!
For me, I'm not going down the path of a phone replacement. I got the Apple Series 7 Watch errrr 1.5 months ago I think now. It's fantastic love it. Having come from a series 3 - It was such a massive jump for my wife and I.
Well done again on your great content, keep doing what you're doing!
Morning Benjamin ☺️
Great to see you sticking around on my channel - thanks for that 👌
Also yeah - super happy about the 100 subscribers 🥳 my girlfriend and I are trying to come up with something cool for a 100-subscriber-party - any ideas? 😛
Take care and stay safe :)
@@FlorianBodlee Good Morning my friend :-)
No problems about sticking around! Happy to support content creators - Something that I couldn't do! hahaha.
re: the 100 subscriber party! lol - Unfortunately not! Just keep that content coming out.
Yes, keeping safe here in Australia! I'm actually enjoying a much needed day off - Registered Nurse here - However, previously spent 30 years in Technology (programming, analyst, solution design, service delivery, project/program and product management). I loved it, don't get me wrong, but nice to have a job that you can actually leave at work! hahaha.
Good video. would be interested in hearing more of your reasoning why you do this, and the effect it's had on your productivity/life
Thanks Anthony! I have a video on that planned indeed, probably in the beginning of next year 👍🏼☺️ thanks for the support! 🥳
Love it. very exited to try it out as a standalone. thank you for sharing your experience. I think the 7 will make a good first smartwatch
Hey Adrien, welcome to the channel 🥳 Yeah it sure will! Please let me know how your experience with the setup is once you gave it a shot :) Would love to know!
Great video. Thanks for sharing. I’m upgrading from the original series 0 watch and I’m hoping my new series 7 arrives before Christmas.
It's quite the upgrade, enjoy your watch and fingers crossed it arrives in time 👍👍
Hey great video! Really good approach to reviewing the watch. I’m looking forward checking out the watch for myself! You’ve earned a subscriber!
Hey there and welcome to the channel! 🥳 I’d love to hear a little more what exactly you mean by “approach”, s.t. I can extend on that in the future 👌🏼 thanks in advance and best of luck with the Watch if you get one 🥳
Yes, putting AW on your workplace wifi, gym wifi etc. makes a major difference on battery life. For me, an iPad is not needed then.
Great review ☺️
Hey there Jonathan! Welcome to the channel and thanks a lot! Happy to hear you enjoyed it! :)
I really like this unique take ⚡️⚡️
Hi thanks! Happy to hear you enjoyed it and welcome to the channel! 🥳
I've been contemplating using a smartwatch as a standalone device for a long time, and your video definitely helped me make a decision. Once my current phone is paid off, I'll switch to Apple and exclusively use the Watch. Thank you for the video!
My only question now is whether to get the Apple Watch 7 or the Apple Watch SE. I know you endorse the roughly 30% faster charging speed of the Watch 7, yet it's almost US $200 more expensive than the Watch SE, and the charging speed seems to be the only significant difference between the two. Do you have any experience or knowledge of using the Watch SE as a standalone device? Is the 30% faster charging speed worth the $200 difference?
Hi there and welcome to the channel! Happy to hear I was able to help :) I’ve been doing this whole thing for a couple of years now with the Series 4 and I can say with 100% confidence that the charging speed makes all the difference. With the Series 4 I always struggled to get through the day and for some time I even used 2 Apple Watches and switched back and forth between them because I couldn’t make it work with one. In the beginning you might be ok with the SE as well but once the battery degrades it will be a struggle every day and won’t be much fun.
If you can somehow afford it, go with the S7. Not only will you have a much much better experience with the battery system but the screen is also a lot nicer and always-on, at least in my opinion, is also pretty cool because you get to show off your watch faces :)
Hello. So, in your opinion use a SE 2 like a iPhone replacement will not have sucess because it hasnt quick charge, right?
Yeah personally I wouldn’t go for it. Series 7 is unfortunately the minimal viable option here if you ask me 🤷🏻♂️
@@FlorianBodlee thank you very much
Happy to help :)
Great question! TLDR; 100% yes if your provider supports Wifi calling and a 90% confident yes otherwise ☺️ You will still receive regular calls even on Wifi in my experience. I just ran a quick test to verify a hunch I had. My carrier supports Wifi calling and I can confirm after a test call and checking my network logs that the Apple Watch indeed supports and uses Wifi calling. This then means that with my carrier (and most others), the watch can completely shut down the cellular modem and still receive normal voice calls. I would very much expect that it would still receive cellular calls on Wifi even with a carrier that doesn’t support Wifi calling but I honestly have no way of checking as I don’t see a setting for this in the Watch settings…
@@FlorianBodlee Thanks for the reply and for taking the time to test it. My carrier also has wifi calls. So I feel more relaxed and more certain about this topic. Thanks again for your availability.
Great video, u earned a sub. I've got one question though. If i turn off cellular at times when i don't want to receive messages in order to save battery, can i still get called if let's say somebody want's to speak with me really urgent?
Hi there, thanks and welcome to the channel! 🥳 no, Apple Wach used Voice over LTE, which means that turning off cellular data also turns off the calling capabilities. Hope this info helps =)
@@FlorianBodlee Yeah thanks
What app are you using for streaming? I’m a first time Apple Watch user and am trying to get an ipad/watch combo like you.
Hi James welcome to the channel! Do you mean streaming video on the watch directly?
I am trying this again with my AW6. Unfortunately my (smaller) language does not appear to be supported by swipe keyboards. Yes, taking the Apple watch with my iPad (mini 6) in the bag is a powerful combo. Love the freedom of taking just the watch with me in my spare time. If in very public places I sometimes bring my AirPods too.
Totally! AirPods are necessary with this combo imo. The swipe keyboard is only available on Series 7 afaik. My S4 didn’t show it at least. Furthermore, afaik, it’s only available in English 🤷🏻♂️ it’s a shame honestly, hope they fix both of these points soon! :)
I have been thinking about going iPhone-free for quite a while and keep wondering if it would really be practical. I look forward to future updates, Florian!
I am curious, outside of the first-party apps that are available, how many 3rd-party apps support Family Setup? Is there a way to determine ahead of time if a specific app supports Family Setup?
I too like the idea of using the Apple Watch as a stand alone device. Unfortunately in the USA, you have to be with a big mobile carrier to get an Apple Watch cellular plan. And it is only available as an add on to a phone plan. So I would have to drop my discount carrier, get a more expensive large mobile carrier, then pay the extra $10 a month for Apple Watch cellular. The watch, the cellular service… adds up to over $1,000 over what I am currently spending over two years. So I’m sticking with just a phone for now.
Hey there! Yeah that’s a pretty compelling argument against the watch! I’ll look into some phone plans in the US out of curiosity but at least here in Germany (can’t believe I’m saying this, normally these things are always more complicated here), you can pretty much get an eSIM for the watch at a random supermarket 😅
Sorry to hear you can’t give this a shot but there’s honestly also nothing wrong with sticking with your phone for now!
Best of luck and welcome to the channel 🥳
I have the phone and watch and pay 25 for the phone and 5 for the watch. That’s $30 a month with visible and that’s in the US. Everything works great, uses Verizon towers for service.
I use my series 7 with my iPad mini 6.. no Watch app on iPad so you NEED an iPhone to set it up. No SMS texting unless your iPhone has a cellular connection because the Watch forces SMS messages to send through iPhone instead of the Watch itself.
Yes you’re completely right! An iPhone has to be connected to the internet at all times; mine mostly rests on the charger though and then most things work no problem… But yeah as you said - I also wish I could just pair the watch with the iPad directly!
I am considering to buy an Apple Watch with GPS connectivity only. I think it would be more convenient for me to have my watch tether off of my iPhone instead of buying an additional cellular plan.
That is really fair enough! I still think going Apple Watch only is a niche use case and it‘s definitely a bit more convenient at times having the iPhone as well ;) My provider luckily allows me to have free additional eSIMs on my contract; so I have no additional cost for using my cellular iPad and Apple Watch on top of my iPhone. It‘s one phone plan that covers it all. Obviously it gets significantly less attractive if you have to pay on top!
@@FlorianBodlee That is a really great offer from your cellular service! How do I know if my carrier allows an additional eSIM for free?
Hi, interesting video! Love the Apple Watch and I’m craving for more people to embrace it as an independent device. Hope developers can invest they’re creativity in making this a easier for us, along side Apple. I see you use Notion, and for task management? Do you use reminders, to be able to use it independently? Thanks and congrats from Portugal
Hi Hugo :) Welcome to the channel, thank you for watching and happy to hear you enjoyed it! I actually do use Notion (rarely) on the Watch through Shortcuts. It’s a little buggy - as in, it crashes and reloads the page more often then I’d like - but surprisingly, it’s usable if I REALLY need it. I usually have an iPad Pro with me and the point where I want to put something into Notion or look at my todo list etc. is usually also the point where I’m more than happy to take the iPad out of my bag and make use of the bigger screen. The theme of “usable if I REALLY need it” is kinda where I’m going with this whole Apple Watch as an independent device thing. I talked about this a little in my video on the tech I use every day and I will for sure create another video going into more detail. By making things such as mindless social media scrolling and pointless chatting cumbersome to some degree, using the Apple Watch and not a smartphone keeps me focused on what I want to do intentionally and doesn’t draw me into those “infinity pools” (great book by the way; Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky). However, if I’m on the go and someone really needs to reach me, I really need to reply to an email, or yes, even put something into Notion, the Apple Watch can do it :)
Let me know if you wanna know more about how exactly I make this work - more than happy to help you out! ☺️
Cheers from Germany and have a great day!
@@FlorianBodlee thanks! Really interested in know how you’re using shortcuts with Notion!
Alright, here’s how you do it; there are a couple of ways:
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Open Notion:
1. Open Shortcuts on the paired iPhone
2. Create a new shortcut
3. Name it e.g. Notion and give it a fitting icon
4. Search for the action „Show Web Page“ and drag it into the shortcut
5. Put the Notion-URL as the only parameter
6. Go to the shortcut settings and make sure you have „Show on Apple Watch“ ticked
-> this will allow you to run the shortcut in the watch‘s shortcut app and will bring you to the Notion homepage on the first run. Just log in and you’ll arrive on the homepage. Earlier versions of WatchOS weren’t able to store cookies; the newer ones are, so the next time you open the shortcut you‘ll arrive on your Notion homepage.
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Bookmark a specific Notion page:
Same procedure as above except that in step 5 you paste the Page‘s URL
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Open any website on the watch:
1. Follow steps 1-3. I named this shortcut „Safari“
2. Use the action „Ask for Input“. The first parameter should be set to „Text“ the second to e.g. „Enter website“
3. Use the action „Show Webpage“ and as the only parameter use the variable „Provided Input“
-> this shortcut now effectively starts a Safari browser on your watch, including going back and forth, reloading pages, cookies, text entry, the real deal. It just doesn’t support videos and some fonts look a bit wonky. But it’s surprisingly usable!
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Make a „Homescreen“ with web-apps:
1. Create a watch face „Infograph“ because it holds the most complications.
2. Add each shortcut somewhere on the watch face as a complication; e.g. I have Safari, Notion, and Instagram here. Again, surprisingly usable solution and almost feels like using the actual apps.
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Hugo, let me know if this worked for you! Cheers 🥳
Great video .... Subscribed .... I wish you a great day as well
Thanks Tomas! Welcome to the channel 🥳
It’s for emergency cases only and with the gps based functions, can’t be used without the phone itself as an connector to it.
I can tell you for sure that it can definitely be used without the phone being connected! I acknowledge that that's probably not the intended use case but it does work for sure as long as the phone is powered on and connected to the internet, every function that the watch has pretty much just works. With the exception of apps that haven't been updated in years...
This there any play or looseness between the band connectors and the watch on either the top or bottom bands on your watch?
Hi there :) no, I don’t have any play that’d be worth mentioning on any of my bands with the Series 7. But note that I’ve seen a lot of play with different cheaper 3rd party bands…
@@FlorianBodlee thank you! I seem to have some play with official Apple sports band. I may need to talk to customer service. I very much appreciate your detailed and thorough review and look forward to your long term review of the S7 watch. Probst 🍺
Anytime 🥳
are you gonna buy watch 8 ?
No but I ordered Apple Watch Ultra and will for sure review it :)
@@FlorianBodlee Bitte mach wieder so ein prima Video zur Watch Ultra. Ich debattiere gerade nur der Uhr wegen ins Apple Ökosystem zu wechseln. Also irgendein gebrauchtes iPhone X zu kaufen als Backup und am Tag nur die Apple Watch und mein Surface zu benutzen.
Fitness und Schlafüberwachung sind mir vollkommen egal, wichtig ist mir nur auf Whatsapp/SMS/Anruf erreichbar zu sein ohne dass ich mehrmals täglich laden muss.
Spitze Review zur 7er Watch.
Bin dran ☺️
Apple wird dir Tastatur für mehr sprachen als großen “Feature” in Watch os 9 ankündigen. Richtig peinlich
Gut möglich - bei sowas sind sie tendenziell bisschen langsam und Deutsch kommt ja meistens erst nachgereicht. Benutze auch Siri immer auf Englisch weil einfach mehr geht… bleibt wohl nichts als warten 🤷🏻♂️