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Is your LTE Apple Watch making you decrease iPhone screen-time usage? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Alternative-Corner29@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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I've bought an Apple Watch Series 6 LTE, and I've noticed that my screen-time has decreased a lot. I feel that I'm not that addicted to my iPhone.

I feel more free when I go for a walk or shopping wearing just my watch. Now I can left my iPhone at home.

What about you?

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[–] TheHoppyBrewer@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Yes and no.

Work life? No. Unfortunately I need my phone everywhere I go. Emails, phone calls, texts, etc. While I could do it all on the Ultra, it feels clunky and is faster on my phone.

Vacation/off-time? Yes. I’ve recently bought a camera (R50) specifically so that I won’t feel the need for my phone since that’s what I mainly use my phone for during that time anyway.

I’m actively trying to reduce my phone usage though, and can see moving to smart watches completely in the future. The biggest daily obstacles right now that force me to bring a phone during off time:

Uber and Lyft can’t be ordered from the watch, only given updates after ordered from the phone. Ordering rides used to be supported, hopefully it will come back.
Apple CarPlay is not supported with just the watch. Fingers crossed an update will give the watch CarPlay support.