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There are a few useful things you can do with an old #Apple #Watch after you upgrade to a new one. You might think of the #AppleWatch as being a disposable product — because who would wear two watches? But there are actually quite a few surprising use cases for having a daily Apple Watch and a secondary watch.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Night watch for sleep tracking
1:26 Riskier activity tracking
2:09 Wear it on your arm or leg
3:15 Hand it down to a child
4:00 Run the watchOS beta
5:13 Use it as a phone
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you might think of the Apple watch as
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being a disposable product because well
0:04
who in the right mind would wear two
0:05
apple watches but there are actually a
0:07
few surprising use cases for having both
0:09
a daily watch and a secondary watch you
0:12
can switch to here are six things you
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can do with an old Apple
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watch let's start with number one a
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dedicated night watch for sleep tracking
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the Apple watch is great at tracking
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your sleep it'll even do the different
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stages of sleep throughout the night and
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it's also great as an alarm because
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it'll wake you up by silently buzzing on
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your wrist it won't wake up your partner
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if they want to get up a little later
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but if you wear your watch during the
0:37
day and you wear it overnight when are
0:40
you supposed to charge it personally I
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don't like charging my watch during the
0:43
day because if I have to get up then my
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watch won't give me any credit towards
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my move or stand Rings this is a prime
0:50
use case for an old Apple watch a
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dedicated sleep tracker and alarm you
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wear your new one every day when you go
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out and about and your old one sits on
0:58
the charger during the day when it's
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time for bed you just switch them out
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you always have a fully charged Apple
1:04
watch and you never have to worry about
1:06
topping it up in the evening or in the
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morning Rush another benefit is that if
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your favorite band is more for fashion
1:11
and less comfortable like a millon loop
1:14
or this twistoflex band available on the
1:17
cult of Max store you don't have to
1:18
switch it out with your sport band every
1:20
morning and night you can have your
1:21
comfortable band on your night watch and
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your fashionable band on your daily
1:25
watch number two riskier activity
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tracking the Apple watch is surprisingly
1:30
hearty and water resistant but
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occasionally there are those Day
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activities you go on that just make you
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a little nervous instead of risking your
1:38
expensive new Apple watch when you go
1:40
rock climbing or skydiving or swimming
1:43
in the ocean you can swap it out for
1:45
your old watch instead after all an old
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hand-me-down watch is a lot cheaper than
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an Apple Watch Ultra some people may
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choose to protect their Apple watch in a
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case like this one from logo personally
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I find these a little un slly to say the
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least and they're a little fiddly to
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take on and off but you can keep your
2:04
secondary Apple watch permanently
2:06
enclosed in one of these so you don't
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have to deal with it daily number three
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wearing an Apple Watch on your arm or
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leg although the Apple watch is designed
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for your wrist there are actually a few
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use cases for wearing it higher up on
2:17
your arm or around your ankle if you
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play competitive Sports where Precision
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is key like tennis or basketball then
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the weight of an Apple Watch on your arm
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might actually affect how you play well
2:30
the 12 South action sleeve puts your
2:33
Apple watch higher up on your arm where
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it's out of the way but it can still be
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used for tracking your Fitness and
2:39
activity and if you use a secondary
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Apple watch for this then you don't have
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to worry about swapping it out for your
2:45
regular band before every game and
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training session on the other hand or
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foot you might want to wear an Apple
2:51
Watch on your ankle if you work at a
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standing treadmill desk you won't get as
2:56
much credit for all that walking because
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your arms will be just just as
3:00
stationary as if you were at a regular
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desk wearing a second Apple watch on
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your ankle it'll still work towards your
3:06
move exercise and stand goals but you
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can still have an Apple Watch on your
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wrist for notifications and you know
3:13
telling time number four you can hand it
3:16
down to a child if your kid is old
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enough to spend the night at a friend's
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house but still too young for the full
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power of an iPhone like what 17 I don't
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know I don't have kids you can give them
3:29
an Apple watch instead you'll be able to
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track their location using find my you
3:34
can send them a text if it's a cellular
3:36
model you can call them wherever they
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may be after you wipe your Apple watch
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and during the setup process just be
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sure to tap set up for a family member
3:44
it's really easy and again because it's
3:47
only an Apple Watch and not an iPhone
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you don't have to worry about them
3:49
getting sucked into Tik Tock or Roblox
3:53
or Wikipedia or whatever it is that
3:56
parents are afraid of kids getting into
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again I wouldn't know number five if you
4:00
want to check out the new features
4:02
coming to watch OS before they're
4:03
released for everybody you can install
4:06
the beta software on your secondary
4:08
device this year the top features coming
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to watch OS 11 include a new vitals app
4:14
that gives you a broader picture of your
4:15
health and various life factors a
4:17
workout training load that can detect
4:19
how much effort is going into your
4:21
exercise a redesigned photo face and
4:23
much more but running a watchos beta is
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kind of a pain in the ass for one you
4:29
have to also be running the iOS beta in
4:31
order to install the watchos beta and
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you might not want to put your primary
4:35
phone at risk secondly once you upgrade
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your Apple watch you can't downgrade so
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once you're on watch OS 11 you can't go
4:43
back to watch OS 10 finally once you
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sign up for the beta track you'll get a
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new software update with a new beta
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every 2 to 3 weeks and installing a
4:53
watchos software update is
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notoriously incredibly irritating if you
4:58
really want to try out the new features
5:00
but you don't want to put your primary
5:01
watch on the line you can use a
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secondary watch for this provided it's
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new enough this year watch OS 11 is
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compatible with the Series 6 second
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generation SE and newer finally number
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six you can turn your old Apple watch
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into a small phone it's easy to overlook
5:18
that the Apple watch is actually a
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pretty powerful and capable computer and
5:22
cell phone all by itself well with the
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tiny pod you can get a special iPod
5:28
shaped case your Apple watch slips into
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to become its own device it even has a
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little click wheel that mechanically
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spins the Apple watch's digital crown
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for scrolling like it's 2004 a bunch of
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companies have tried over the years to
5:44
reinvent the regular cell phone but for
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Gen Z to varying degrees of success some
5:51
of these companies even last long enough
5:53
to make a second or even third model but
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the fundamental problem with abandoning
5:57
your iPhone is that you get get a new
6:00
phone number that isn't compatible with
6:02
imessage well with an old cellular Apple
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watch you can keep compatibility with
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your Apple account and all of your apps
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switching is as simple as leaving your
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iPhone at home and putting your tiny pod
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in your pocket instead it's available
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for ordering right now and they have
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versions that fit every model of Apple
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watch from the series 4 SE and newer
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actually there is one more thing you can
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do with an old Apple watch trade it in
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for a new app Apple watch when I
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upgraded from my Series 3 to my Series 7
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my old watch was so clunky and slow and
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the battery life was shot it was useless
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for basically anything else but I got a
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little bit of money back on my new
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purchase you can use cultul of Max
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tradein program to get credit for your
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old watch when you're ready to upgrade
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possibly this fall you can find it by
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clicking here or in the video
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description remember to like And
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subscribe I'm driffin Jones with Cult of
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