If you're the sort of backpacker who cuts off toothbrush handles to save weight, you'll love that your watch lets you leave your phone at home. Try an app like ViewRanger for offline maps, navigation and tracking.

In addition to the native weather app are zillions of others like Wundergound and Yahoo Weather.Įven with no cellular signal in the wilderness, newer Apple Watches have their own GPS and barometric altimeters which can read, track and log your location and elevation anywhere outdoors. It's easy to have the temperature, weather conditions, UV index and Air Quality pop up every time you lift your arm.Ī tap or two and you can get all the details you want for any location as you're moving around, with no need to find your phone.

Weather Buffs, Pilots, Hikers & OutdoorsmenĪlso native to the Apple Watch are detailed weather displays. There's a self-timer on the remote app, so you can set up perfect self portraits looking at your watch's Live View, tap the self timer and then put your arms down and pose. You can use the remote for self-portraits, as well as group photos including yourself. The watch's native Camera Remote Control app lets you shoot your iPhone camera from your watch - with Live View from the iPhone camera on your watch! You can see what the camera sees, so you can hold the phone at weird angles or in strange places where you can't see its screen. Long exposures? Just use the watch's built-in programmable countdown timer. In addition to rise and set times, it counts down the hours and minutes to go until each rise and set, so we always know right where we stand with the light. You don't need any extra apps, and it does the same for weather forecasts. The Apple Watch can show sun and moon rise and set times just by lifting your wrist. Photographers Landscape, Nature and Portrait The Apple Watch has many special powers making it especially appealing to technical people, as well as to athletes, outdoorsmen, businesspeople, commuters, and just about everyone: In addition to all it does by itself, there are a zillion free and other apps to do just about anything you might imagine, and a whole lot more. The Apple Watch is an amazing thing, being the world's most accurate watch as well as the most legible and most functional.

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