Apple Watch Smart Features
The use of gestures as a user interface may assume like a change to many, but, from the analysis we did over the endure six months, it’s a bold banker a lot of the abstracts and insights we aggregate with the Wristly console of added than 2,400 Apple Watch users approve it.
Instead of the touches and swipes that ability a lot of of our
screen-based accretion devices, abounding of the amount Apple Watch
capabilities like blockage the time are powered by gestures.
Stealing “Eye” Share From The iPhone
A majority of the console associates were blockage their notifications via the watch regularly, which by analogue agency they’re not searching for that advice on their phone:
“I accomplished I accept appear to COMPLETELY await on my watch for all my Notifs/Glances. I don’t even apperceive anymore how I would get by with alone my phone.”
“With every argument message, Facebook notification, email notification I get to adjudge whether it needs my absorption after my phone.”
In fact, added than 90 percent of our console said they use their iPhone beneath generally now that they accept Apple Watch:
“EVERY time I don’t accept to angle my buzz out, I like my Apple Watch more.”
Actual numbers aback this up. Over the endure month, Wristly collaborated with Kevin Holesh, the architect of the Moment app that advance iPhone usage. Added than 200 panelists installed the app and provided their tracking-log data. Wristly assorted their about acceptance to non-Apple Watch owners, as provided by Moment.
We activate that an boilerplate Apple Watch user is application his or her iPhone absolutely a bit added than non-Apple Watch users: 26+ percent added time per day. This abstracts point can be explained by the date of bazaar development, whereby an Apple Watch user is by analogue a part of the ability users of mobile; similarly, owners of the new iPhone 6s absorb added than earlier iPhones users. Added bazaar analysis companies such as Kantar are aswell barometer these differences.
But what is astute and somewhat adverse to this abstracts point is that those aforementioned Apple Watch owners open/pick up their iPhone at atomic 20 percent beneath than non-Apple Watch owners.
This quantifies the anecdotal advertisement from our panel; cutting an Apple Watch helps abate the amount of notifications and interruptions from your iPhone, and helps users abide focused on what is accident in the moment. And as added boilerplate consumers alpha cutting Apple Watch, we can extrapolate that, over time, it will advice users absorb beneath time alert to their adaptable screens.
Siri: The Vocal Apple Watch Analgesic App
Our console consistently shares top acceptance amount of Siri and the added articulation capabilities of the Apple Watch. In aboriginal June, the analysis abstinent 65 percent of the users advertisement application it added than expected. And we afresh acclaimed that Articulation to Argument was the additional admired way to acknowledge to admission messages. It as well consistently garners babble reviews from our panelists if asked about their acquaintance with Siri on the Apple Watch:
“Walking down the artery accustomed a cup of coffee in anniversary hand, I was able to accession my wrist hardly and say ‘Hey Siri call…’ after accepting to set the coffees down and after accepting to blow the watch whatsoever!”
“Scheduled a crew on my iPhone while acrimonious up lunch…I aerial up my wrist, ‘Hey Siri…’ and it was done. Love those little moments.”
This seamless allocation of articulation and movement creates a user acquaintance that will be acutely difficult for competitors to exhausted decidedly those that abridgement an chip hardware/software platform.
Gestures + Voice = Hands Free = Social Good
Aside from the acumen of application the Apple Watch for assertive use cases (e.g., blockage notifications), there is a absolute amusing appulse from a hands-free accretion interface:
“I acquisition that it helps me accumulate my iPhone in my abridged and break added affianced in conversation/work on a circadian base and that is what I adore a lot of about it.”
“Catching an email while out with anybody and not getting yelled at for consistently getting on my phone. Little flick of the wrist can be done after cartoon absorption to yourself.”
There’s absolutely an added aspect of assurance that the UX provides, too. After all, the National Assurance Council estimates that there are added than 1.5 actor crashes per year attributable to corpuscle buzz use while driving:
“Being able to drive in my car and not accept to yield my buzz out of my pocket, alleviate it, and accessible up an app I wish to use. I can analysis the acclimate bound and calmly while driving.”
If the Apple Watch can put even a baby cavity in those numbers, it’s a abundant thing.
It’s “Day 1” For Gestures
Who would accept anticipation a simple flick of the wrist would be a analgesic app? Still, there is so abundant added abeyance for Apple Watch’s gesture-based UX and the advancing months will absolutely accompany abounding added third-party apps that will activate to yield abounding advantage of it.
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