Apple Watch Series 6: Best Apps! By Jon Rettinger

Portion of this video is sponsored by the autonomous smart desk core, so the Apple Watch is the number one selling watch in the world by like not a small margin and with series seven like seemingly around the corner. This seemed like a perfect time to give you my favorite Apple Watch apps. So brief Apple Watch kind of mini history, so the Apple Watch first launched back in 2015. I think we all had pretty like high hopes for this brand-new style of device, but quickly realized that, like essentially, we were just beta testing for apple. There was a severe lack of third-party app support early on the apps that were there took like seemed like a year to actually load or do anything you know maybe cheaply. I bought it along with millions of others.

I think with the hope that the wearable market, especially from apple, could improve and since then pretty much every September Apple Watch has become. You know. The usual stuff Tim Cook likes to say, more powerful, more useful, adding more ram storage screen, brightness water resistance, cellular connectivity, all of those things' hardware enhancements, have made it easier for developers to produce useful apps that kind of graduate our dumb watch to a smartwatch, all right, so first Spotify, whether you are into to music or podcasts Spotify, has become for a lot of people, the go-to source for music. I know there are a ton of sort of music apps out there and I, like them all for different reasons, but for me, Spotify has been amazing when it comes to playlisting and song recommendations. I always find myself going to like the made for you, playlist and pressing play without second guessing what song is going to be played next.

Furthermore, I think their AI, their algorithms, really have got to know me over a short period of time, but aside from like playlisting having the ability to quickly control my music from my wrist awesome ability to throw that music from my wrist to some of my airplay speakers equally awesome. So this might be a surprise but uh, I'm a'm. A sports guy, it's what I'm for um might catch me talking about Lakers, online or occasionally catching up on some rams games. Hanging up to sports is surprisingly important to me, probably more than it should be, and the score app makes it really easy to do. Just that.

Do things like get score updates' minute by minute game start and stop times of all things. That's sort of been enough to help keep me in the know of my favorite squads. So there are a lot of messaging apps out there, but for me, I have gravitated to telegram and that's what we use in the company in the studio. It's how these videos help get made. I am on it probably 40 to 50 times a day and the telegram watch app is actually perfect.

If you guys aren't familiar with like telegram like as a whole, it's a cross-platform messaging app. There is an app available for every single platform, the web version. Everything is awesome and it syncs like magic. I could start typing a message on my phone in telegram go to my computer and that text is going to be there ready to be completed. Just been a really awesome tool, you can do calls from it.

Now too, it's been great. The watch app has been more of a notification thing for me. Being able to do quick replies to reply. Keep up on threads know how video production is going. Um has been really important.

There's no in-app purchases here, it's also end-to-end encrypted too, and I think, most importantly, it just works. It's not the most elegant and beautiful thing in the world, especially on my watch, but it is helpful in its utility and if you use telegram, or you want to start using a new messaging app um, it's pretty sweet on your wrist uh, so streaks, it's not every day, that an app helps me become a better person, a better father, a better human but streaks. Does that, and its beauty is in its simplicity, so whether you're trying to say stop an addiction like smoking or have a need to have a tangible record of your progress and want to track time tasks like reading a book tricks is going to help you with those small wins on your way to forming good habits. They say it takes ten thousand hours to be perfect at something you could track that here. So for me, it's being able to find time to read and try to find time to myself every day.

Streak has been really helpful for small things like that. My eldest son is seven years old and super into soccer they're, trying to track how much time he's spending practicing another really helpful utility. I mentioned uh addiction if you're trying to keep track of how often you go in between whatever you're trying to fight strip is a perfect way to do that. It's been awesome for sort of mental health and being able to tangibly see my own progress and also, in addition to automatically tracking things like fitness habits as well. Streaks for Apple Watch actually keeps those tasks totally at a glance whatever you're doing is available on your wrist, make it really easy to sort of start or stop these manual streaks.

Just like anything else, it's a tool right, it's nothing more or less. You got to have the discipline and if you do decide to make that choice, I think street can help improve your general quality of life. So before I keep going with the Apple Watch, I want to tell you about the autonomous smart desk. Core uh standing desks are kind of all the rage and for a perfect reason, there are huge health benefits to standing instead of sitting, especially when it comes to the back, and this is amongst the best out there. So if you're still working from home chances are you've gone from sitting like this to like some version of like this, while you do your thing uh, it might be time to look at a standing desk.

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Furthermore, it is for your overall health and autonomous, I think, makes one of the best options out there. If you want to check it out I'll link to it down below and use john retainer zero, five for five percent off so uh. I have recently decided that I hate my elbows and knees and decided to gravitate back to playing tennis, which I played as a kid, and I've started playing two times a week. Uh the sports sort of helped me sort of be less of an oval and stay in shape, uh and actually swing vision. It's an app obviously for your iPhone.

The Apple Watch app helps me understand the game a bit more, so the most notable features are things like tracking shot, type, spin type and even ball speed, and you can analyze like shot depth, spread accuracy record your highlights if you're using your iPhone or iPad. So I'm good just knowing the basics. I am not that good or I have to know everything that it can do um, but knowing the basic stats sort of cool to have- and it's helped me go from like a awful tennis player to just a like just a bad one. So hear me out on this one uh, it's called coloring watch so as a kid coloring is a fun way to pass time and the idea is that as an adult, you can clear your mind by coloring. Believe it or not.

There are adult coloring books, which are a thing. This is actually a coloring app just on your wrist, which I understand sounds a bit like ridiculous, but if you need a quick five-minute break or just wanna sort of clear your mind for a few minutes, this is a really cool way to go. There's really quick and simple: tap and swipe gestures for navigation, rotate, digital crown for color selection. I know it sounds silly to do on your wrist, but when you actually get into it, it's really fun and with coloring watch they sort of have what they call mindful minutes. So you can keep track of your heart rate and you're breathing and see how it's actually, the simple process of drawing on your wrist can relax you physically and once you've completed your masterpiece.

Instead of like sticking it on the fridge or sending it to your phone and printing it out or share with your friends, you can actually set it as your watch face for a kind of nice reminder of whatever your awesome watch, coloring skills. So my wife, I love her but has a habit of sometimes leaving the garage door open when she leaves so- and this is a couple of years ago I installed the q from chamberlain. It lets me control my garage door from my phone open or close and see the status of it. The watch app does exactly I could expect. I actually never use the app on my phone.

I just check my watch open up to my cue. Furthermore, I can see if our garage is open or closed and then close it when inevitably twice a month. It gets left open. So I do a lot of stuff in the stock market. I know it's been some bad press, but I most of my portfolio is still in Robin Hood uh.

The Apple Watch app for Robin Hood doesn't have much functionality, but at a glance I could see sort of what my loss is for the day. What my gain is for the day, my overall portfolio value is, and that's been helpful to know if I have to like immediately run in to the app and sell something or buy something just being able to see. My balance quickly has been awesome, so there are a ton of apps for tracking packages and stuff deliveries for the Apple Watch has been perfect. What I like about deliveries, the app itself, is from an email or something if I copy a tracking number and I open up deliveries' app, it's going to be like. Oh, I recognize.

You've got ups, something saved. You want to paste that um and I paste it, and it'll sync across the watch. I can keep track of where my package is. You have push alerts to tell you where things are. It's a awesome way to start tracking packages, so in the studio here we use a simply safe alarm.

It's been surprisingly awesome and worked. Very well actually did a whole video uh on it, but the watch app has been great for seeing if the system is armed, not armed and then deciding to arm it. If I want you notice, the theme of this video is sort of mini utility. It's like one piece of what the iPhone app does on your wrist, but these apps do that one piece really well and they sort of get more and more ensconced in using my watch for things which never really were an option a few years ago, because apps just took way too long to actually load. I want to share a list of what my favorite and most useful apps are now so, as we get ready for like series 7 to like be different, hopefully bring things like a new design, I'm hoping for advancements in health tracking with new sensors new hardware improvements could at least I'm hoping more opportunity for the software to grow and kind of benefit our lives in new ways.

If I had to make a quick list of features or improvements that I'd like to say next Apple Watch, I'd say at the very top would be better battery life. Listen if I can get to three days. That is insane, but a solid two days, I think, would be a really awesome improvement. Also, the ability to like track mental health stuff low, if I'm showing signs of an upcoming panic attack or maybe show my vital show, heightened stress or give me ways to sort of improve my inner anxiety, I'm sort of fighting with all the time. But anyway, those are my favorite things that I'm using on my Apple Watch.

Hopefully, some of them will help you and sort of make your life a bit seamless and easier.

Source : Jon Rettinger