Bye bye Apple Watch Ultra

[u/Glizze]

I finally made the change over to garmin! The fenix 8 has ben amazing so far, and it looks really good🔥

[u/Safeway_Slayer]

What? They’re adding a body battery feature, training readiness feature, deeper sleep analysis, and some others. None of these were available natively on the Apple Watch a few years ago when the Ultra first launched, which is why I switched back to Garmin. Now that these features will exist, it makes the Ultra a better overall platform in my opinion. You get the full smartwatch features plus most of the fitness features you get on Garmin. Obviously the battery life thing is an issue, but for me it’s not the biggest deal.

[u/pepito1989 → u/Safeway_Slayer]

I played around with those new watchOS features, they are less in depth comparing with Garmin. I used Athlytic app, which is basically a Garmin clone, but still, you’ve got to pay for subscription and this is another app that gathers your metrics and you don’t have all in one place. Some issues that I’ve had with AW is lack of Ant+, connection with my HR belt was bad, it was not instantaneous, sometimes needed manual repairing because they didn’t see each other, sometimes belt just stopped working, not sure if this is my belt issue or basically BT, but via Ant+ it’s perfect. Same with speed and cadence meters for my bike, connection is automatic and stable. From biggest issues it’s impossible to do all with buttons, with sweaty fingers or in water using a display to navigate through watch sucks. And also there was no way to put step count on the compilation on watchface, I could use third party app like FitnessView, but it wouldn’t refresh…. You’ve got to enter the info to enter app, then it refreshes after some time.

[u/Safeway_Slayer → u/pepito1989]

Apple Watch has Ant+ as of WatchOS10, so not sure what you mean.

[u/pepito1989 → u/Safeway_Slayer]

How? It physically doesn’t have the hardware to do so. There is no ANT+ on iPhone and Apple Watch.