Apple Watch thread

Anyone with a cellular watch / Vodacom One Number service getting bad reception lately? Not so long ago, I could comfortably leave my phone at home and be sure I would get data and phone coverage pretty much wherever I went on the esim on my watch. Previously it was an Apple Watch 7 cellular, currently an Apple Watch Ultra 2.
These days, I can hardly walk out of my house and then my connection dies. If this is how One Number is these days, I might as well cancel the service and / or go back to a GPS-only AW. (No, I haven't moved to a different house / city / street, nor changed cellular packages)
 
With Vodacom ignoring my support tickets again, I took it upon myself to "fix" it. Seems like removing the esim yet again, then creating a new profile and adding it back did something and now I seem to be getting a consistent connection when away from phone. It took some doing to actually log on to the Vodacom portal to remove / add the profile as it presents many errors most of the time when logging on.
 
3rd party charger lets the charging keep restarting after 10 minutes or so. Don't think it happened on watchOS 10.
EDIT: Nevermind unfolded the charger and it's working now. Charging this watch is more finicky than a pregnant woman.
 
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April 24, 2025, marks 10 years since the Apple Watch first went on sale. It was actually announced during a special event on September 9, 2014, but only became available – barely, supplies were highly constrained for months – to purchase over seven months later, on April 24, 2015.
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I love mine and wear it all the time. The fitness stuff is great but Apple Pay is even better coupled with an app like https://apps.apple.com/za/app/pass2u-wallet-add-store-card/id1142473931. Also unlike Huawei or Xiaomi I don't have to replace watch bands every 6 months to a year. No brainer purchase.
 
Smiggles said:

I love mine and wear it all the time. The fitness stuff is great but Apple Pay is even better coupled with an app like https://apps.apple.com/za/app/pass2u-wallet-add-store-card/id1142473931. Also unlike Huawei or Xiaomi I don't have to replace watch bands every 6 months to a year. No brainer purchase.
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Yeah, I have to agree. Apple's watch bands are next level. Both my previous Gramin Vivoactive 4 and Fenix 5 silicon bands used to give me a rash when I was working out. The rubber watch bands would stick to my skin. They also wore down so fast. The silicon Apple band with my Ultra has never done that. It also doesn't stick to my skin like the Garmin's did, and still looks new almost a year later.
 
What is the easiest way to get one number (any provider) for my phone and watch, if my number is currently on Prepaid Airmobile?
 
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Only Apple Watch can be trusted to count calories accurately, report finds

Test of the leading brands concludes that fitness watches in general are "uniformly pretty rubbish" at measuring calorie burn.
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As you can see, Apple’s smartwatch came closest to the correct score, beating Garmin (the only overestimator) by four percentage points and Oura by six. Why the inaccuracies? Because, firstly, fitness wearables have to work with the data they have, which is limited. And, secondly, because some of the equations they work from “were developed more than a century ago and are not very accurate,” MailOnline says.
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Apple wants to bring Touch ID to its watches starting next year

According to a new report purportedly based on internal Apple developer code, the company is currently busy exploring ways to bring Touch ID (aka a fingerprint scanner if you don't live in Apple's world) to its watches.

This will arrive next year at the earliest, so presumably on the Apple Watch Ultra 4. The code in question specifically references "AppleMesa", which has long been the company's internal codename for Touch ID.

Since the code is for internal use only, the idea is most likely still in the prototype stage. Hence, none of the watches coming out this year will have the feature.

If you're wondering just where a fingerprint sensor would even go on a watch, the answer is quite simple when we look at smartphones - basically, it's either going to be embedded into a button, or into the screen. An optical in-display sensor has been rumored in the past, and of course there's always the route of putting it in the side button.

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Apple wants to bring Touch ID to its watches starting next year

It would make payments more secure and more hassle-free. According to a new report purportedly based on internal Apple developer code, the company is...
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Apple code suggests Touch ID could be coming to Apple Watch

Internal software suggests that Touch ID could be coming to future Apple Watch models.
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