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.

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.

Big things for me:

Leave house without phone or wallet. Can still make calls and pay for shopping.

Sleep tracking

Heart rate and ECG i check at least once a day

And when driving, the watch reminds me that a turn is coming up. Useful when driving for hours .

I think AW is amazing thing to have. Notifications, calls (just buy cellular, it’s worth it, trust me), fitness things like tracking calories, steps. Features that cares about your health, like sleep data, breating data and heart things. Overall, if you have money for it, go for it. One more thing about Cellular - I was wondering if it’s worth to pay extra money for it, but honestly, even when I’m at home its useful

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.

https://www.apple.com/watch/why-apple-watch/

Makes it really easy to tell the time, among other things.

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.

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.

You can ring your phone when you can’t find it 😅

It’s not a replacement for the phone, however I wanted a fitness watch. I’ve got some cheaper ones in the past and while they have done okay they have broken after a while.

Got the SE2 recently and have no idea why I never got one sooner. Give me all the fitness and sleep tracking information I want, plus the ability to get notifications, respond to text messages and pay for items from my wrist. Had it for a month now and it’s well worth the price.

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

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.

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.

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