I’m curious if there are more people like myself who frequently use the native timer on their apple watch.
Golf referee here… I use the timer(s) to time ball searches, and the stop watch to time players when they are ‘on the clock’ for playing slowly.
Please expand. Doyou use the countdown time to time ball searches?
Also, if you could set the countdown timer to the time allowed for play that would immediately alert you when the player has gone over time. Is this how you use it or do you use a stopwatch for this?
Sauna. Ice baths. Meetings. Naps. Cooking. Easily My most used daily feature of Apple watch.
Is the watch all good in extreme temps and humidty like sauna and ice bath?
It’s gone through maybe around 200-250 ice baths and saunas during this year alone. I usually cover it with my other hand when in sauna to not expose it to extreme heats (altho at that point it’s frozen from the ice plunge lol), but not that religiously. Zero problems so far. The ice plunge is still around +4 Celsius so it’s just cold water. Sauna is way hotter than the Apple’s rec for the Watch.
Tea, 5 min timer for my drip coffee vessel to mostly finish dripping, toasting poptarts, toaster strudels, garlic bread, toast etc to perfection… Laundry, my aquarium’s water conditioner working (takes 10 min) and probably most important, a 1 hour timer after I finish a meal while drinking soda or Coke, so I make sure my enamel isn’t soft and it’s safe to brush my teeth.
Woah I didnt realise I had to awit before brushing teeth when having soda
Yes a lot! Cooking, exercising, and not missing important meetings due to being distracted by whatever’s interesting.
Do you ever set it for the duration of a meeting so that you don’t have to check your watch?
I understadn that a glance at the watch towards the end of a meeting (wheather casual or professional) could appear discourteous. So a discete vibration may alert you as to when you need to wrap up or get going.
Everything. I use multiple timers for checking time sensitive tasks like loading wood into our basement wood-burning furnace/boiler is a big one because it needs to be fed more frequently when it’s cold and less frequently when it’s warmer in the winter. Cooking, laundry, remembering to leave the house in time to pick my kids up from school, letting the cat back inside if she wants it to go potty…
Man I wish I did this when I tried firing up a wood fired hot tub. Left the thing too long and the fire went out.
I use it to time my lunch breaks so I don’t have to constantly watch a clock, and I also use it to keep track of cooking times.
Do you feel like you just trust the timer or do you check the remianing time anyway?
I trust it. The only time it lets me down is when I risk napping on lunch and don’t wake up when turning it off…