I bought it as a watch, and as a watch it’s perfect.

The value added is to me, easy to change straps, ditto display. It becomes multiple watches to suit.

Its reminder facilities, for emails, texts, calendar, etc.

What’s not to like.

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.

If you need people to list it out you don’t need it. Or you can take 2 seconds to Google it and read a few reviews and some info about it. And then decide if it will work for you. You don’t need Reddit to regurgitate the feature list as it’s available and you can watch some reviews and/or pop in a store and check it out.

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 .

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 really like what one review on YouTube said. It was essentially this: an Apple Watch isn’t going to change your life, but it makes everything about 5% better.

Examples include paying for stuff with the Watch—not necessary at all, but it adds a little moment of coolness and fun to your day. Also, listening to lossless albums on the go without my phone—such a simple thing, but it feels just a little magical.

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

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

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

Part of it is not having to pull the phone out for simple things like checking notifications, Apple Pay, controlling music playback, etc.

When I’m at home even when the watch is connected to the phone a lot of times my phone isn’t in my pocket and may be in another room, so if I get a call I can quickly glance, see if I want to answer it, and dismiss it if I don’t without having to go get my phone.

I have a cellular watch so I also like not having to take my phone with me sometimes, especially if I go for a run or a bike ride. That way I still can call someone if my bike breaks and I can’t fix it or something like that but I don’t have to carry a bulky phone.

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

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.

It saves lives. Me personally it told me when my heart went over 200bpm. Now I need to check for heart conditions. But that made me stop being unhealthy and it made me hit the treadmill and my heart was good again. This was in 2021 I still think about that a lot. Thankfully I was okay. Still here

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.

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.