If you waited this long and considering we are now half way to the next major Apple September release, I would probably keep the series 3 Apple Watch and upgrade to one of the new Apple Watches this fall which I assume will be the series 9. I never bought the initial Apple Watch, but my wife and I bought the second Generation and then we upgraded a few years later to the Apple Watch 5th generation and we both still have them. I remember that going from 2nd to 5th generation came with a big speed bump and I was definitely not unhappy as at times using my 2nd generation was painfully sluggish.
Now I am still quite happy with the 5th generation except for using it in the pool and here I really don't know if a new 8th generation watch would be much better, but I find it extremely frustrating and useless for use in water. First of all, even when I don't yet have waterlock on, I find the watch very difficult to use when I have wet fingers and the watch is just a bit wet on the touch screen. Secondly, once I start my pool swim workout and waterlock engages, the watch is entirely useless for a Voiceover user until you press and hold the digital crown to turn waterlock off, then at first if you still have wet fingers you again deal with the frustration of the touch screen either not reacting well or doing all sorts of things you don't want it to do; it foten goes to the third workout screen which is your currently playing screen, then you have to try to get it back to the second screen if I want to see actually any details about how long I was swimming and how many length I did and so on. I really have to get into the habit to bring a small towel or something so I can wipe the watch dry and dry my fingers. Lastly, even at 100% volume it's not easy to hear what Voiceover is saying in a pool setting where there is echo and typically a good amount of background noise. I am thinking I should maybe try one of these waterproof headsets you can get to see if that wouldn't improve the quality of the watch experience because I regularly find myself saying not very nice things to my watch and Apple for making it so difficult. I am pretty sure a sighted person can tap the screen or press the digital crown or side button when the watch is in waterlock and they can see all the information about their workout so it's annoying that as a Voiceover user that information is not accessible, why can't it be set up so that pressing the digital crown and/or side button wouuld tell Voiceover it should read the important workout data such as time and how many length I have done etc. I understand the Apple Watch 8 Ultimate or whatever it is called is quite a bit louder so that might be helpful in this setting, but I'd be really interested to hear from others who regularly use their Apple Watch for swimming workouts if they found any work-arounds for that problems I am describing. because crystal -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Yohandy Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2023 9:42 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Should I upgrade from Apple Watch series 3 to latest model? Hey all, I've been using my apple watch Series 3 for a very long time. Should I upgrade to a newer model? Is there much point? I figured the speed increases would be worth it, but are the other features like blood oxygen measurements etc useful? I also had a question regarding the new zones feature on watch OS 9. Are you able to customize the feature, so you get audible or haptic alerts when your active zone changes? That'll help blind people a ton since we'll get that information in realtime. thanks! -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/5dfa271c-e1e9-105d-ab2d-c9cd2a42557c%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/PH7PR12MB565626F2EF6996360639A3E5C7B89%40PH7PR12MB5656.namprd12.prod.outlook.com.
