Apple - Watch Series 7
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Last updated: Dec 11, 2025 Scoring
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"On the Apple Watch you can be listening to Spotify at your desk, phone, livingroom, car, etc and then hit the device button on the watch and select the watch and Spotify Connect will transfer playback to the watch without missing a beat. ... You don't have to fumble around on a tiny touch screen to locate the playlist you were listening to on your phone so you can continue on the watch. You simply transfer playback and go. ... Mid run if you want to listen to something else, you simply ask Siri and it will play what ever you ask for, no presyncing or phone is necessary."
"I unlock my computer and phone with it."
"the fact that they integrate to the Apple Watch simply cannot be understated for me, I couldn’t go back to Garmin now, it is just so much part of my life now. ... Tracking weightlifting workouts, nutrition and other stuff, analysis of the data, send messages to HomePod, changing NC automatically, sending emails …."
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"the Apple Watch cellular model lets you leave your phone behind. ... Perfect for activities like running."
"Being able to run with my Watch only connected to cellular service is soooo freeing. ... I have music and podcasts available to keep me entertained and getting audio cues from Runna for my running plan is just perfection."
"take just the watch while cycling and leave the phone at home ... this in conjunction with good swim features sold me"
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"It’s well known that Apple has the best optical hr in the business and has since the series 4."
"The later AW is best in class for non chest straps. ... For daily fitness, Apple Watch is just better IMO. ... It being the most accurate heart rate tracker not a chest strap makes it the best fitness tracker to me. ... Maybe I should say it's the best workout recorder because it records the most accurate heart rate data. ... I just really like the AW for every day fitness more so than what Coros or Garmin can provide. ... Executing a training plan I've set out for myself and recording the results. Results being the duration and heart rate data during the planned workouts. I then upload that data to Training Peaks and use Training Peaks to keep up with my training load over time. So the every day fitness part is executing and recording my workouts. ... Apple Watch is data recording. Together they are tracking my fitness."
"Went to the ER and my Heart Rate and Blood oxygen were almost exactly the same as the hospital equipment."
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"It’s also pretty well established that AW has the best motion tracking which shows up when you use the swim feature for distance. ... In swimming, it’s not even close. 100% of garmins worn during our pool swims are incorrect, regardless of swimmer level. ... Every single Garmin incorrectly reported swim distance vs manual counting. Freestyle 4000m in 25m pool."
"even detected kickboard sets, where on a Coros or Garmin those don’t register at all."
"I had an Apple Watch, replaced it with a garmin forerunner for 1 month it was the worst! So inaccurate and when I’d swim in pools it would so often double count my lengths… I went back to Apple Watch"
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"my AW alerted me to heart irregularities that sent me to the ER and findings of a small heart attack and a secondary artery in my heart with 99% blockage. I am AW for life now."
"I was able to capture afib several times on mine that helped lead to a few diagnoses. ... Since my afib was intermittent, it would have taken many more Dr visits for them to even find it, or a trip to the emergency room. ... It provided sufficient data for the Dr to take further action. ... in my case it’s paid for itself several times over. Maybe even saved my life, but thankfully I’ll never know."
"I have POTS and use it to track my heart rate"
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"The battery life is a literal joke. ... Do an activity? There goes 75% of your battery."
"after having it die on a couple seven mile/1.5 hour runs WITH the battery freshly charged and battery saving options on"
"Mine kept dieing one me mid run ... after two years of using it twice hours was about all an aw had battery for when using music and gps! By the 2:15 mark it would be dead. ... When I started running for longer than 2 hrs my battery would die mid run"
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"If you are in long sleeves in the rain, you need to lock the touchscreen to prevent accidental touches. But that prevents you from using the touchscreen without holding to unlock for a few seconds. So if you are doing intervals, it can be hard to end the interval quickly."
"The biggest issue for me on the AW that stops me going only AW is Sweat. ... The screen becomes impossible to use when I hot and sweaty. I mean completely unresponsive. Can’t press the music controls, can swipe the screen etc."
"I already got sick and tired of touch screens with my Apple Watch ... Dripping sweat, rain and sleeves really screw with touch screens ... where I live we have like 6 months worth of snow so needing to take off my gloves and disable a screen lock before being able to pause my workout is an annoying PITA."
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"I tried using my apple watch at an indoor 25 yard pool and it did extremely poorly. It was off by about 100 yards at the 1000 yard mark."
"Apple Watch will count a mid-lap stroke change (as you described) as two laps very reliably. ... For example: if you do 100IM in a 50m pool, it will appear as 200m IM in the Fitness app. ... So if you are really serious about loving mid-lap stroke changes I wouldn't use it."
"it’s absolute trash at tracking my laps even with the pool length set properly. ... It consistently tracks less than I do"
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"one day I only got 3 1/2 hours of sleep and I got a 95 sleep score on Apple lol the Garmin was correct in telling me I got shit sleep."
"Apple gave me kudos for sleeping 3h42m earlier than average last week and the sleep charts show me sleeping from 9:30PM-3:30AM on a day last week when I was traveling in a different timezone and actually went to bed at 12:30AM. ... It's crazy to me that Apple doesn't correctly account for traveling in the sleep monitoring/score."
"my sleep was very fragmented which the Apple Watch didn’t pick up. ... The difference is the garmin should a lot of awakenings which is what I really had. This is the effect of alcohol being metabolized."
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"It misses key info and HR was clearly elevated compared to baseline even on the Ultra, but it doesn't count that. So a night of drinking and shit sleep, still give you a 95 score! ... But the vitals aren’t accounted by the sleep score as far as I can tell and my HR was higher though not abnormally high by Apple Watch standard but this could be because of sampling it does compared to the Garmin ... both HR and RR were elevated but not enough for Apple to flag but the sleep score doesn’t include those metrics, which I really think they should. ... The sleep scores doesn’t take into account vitals."
"Rep Counting, Diagram and Videos of Workouts, Lactate Threshold (even if not super accurate), and GPS Heatmaps for Team Sports are all super great and simply not present on AW."
"If you’re healthy and looking to improve your fitness, performance, or recovery, the Apple Watch probably isn’t the best tool. ... limited in terms of true fitness insights."
From what I’ve seen on Reddit, especially on the running side of things, are people training for a half marathon or full marathon and have like a Series 1-4 and complain that the Apple Watch battery wouldn’t last the whole race. But they’ll go out and buy a brand new Garmin🤔 Like if you search Apple Watch battery in some running subs you’ll see people complaining about it and recommended Garmin. I’m biased because I’ve always had an Apple Watch and I have no plans at this time to replace it, but at the same time I feel people have these old series watches with terrible battery life and think the newer models are the same. The battery life definitely needs improvement though… I’m still on my Series 7 because I’m waiting for some major improvement to the form factor, health feature, and battery life. But after all of that, I can still make it through the entire day. I charge every morning for like 20mins and then it doesn’t need a charge until the next day and I’m a pretty active person.
r/AppleWatchFitness • Why do you prefer AW over Garmin? ->Had AW 6, 7, 10... Had Garmin Fenix 7 somewhere between AW... Now with Garmin instinct 3. ALl has pros and cons. none is perfect. For me it's great to switch from time to time... I would happily do the same between iphone and android, but the cost of switch in terms of software is crazy...
r/GarminWatches • AW to Garmin - and maybe back?? - be honest ->Apple Watch 7 with dawn patrol. More than 400ish surf sessions. You need a real watch band :)
r/surfing • Surf Watch: Apple Watch vs Ripcurl search gps3 ->Hello guys.. I am using an Apple Watch serie 7 but the battery is now almost dead. I would like to buy something different and I am evaluating both Garmin and Coros. I know no solution is really precise for CrossFit, usually I also wear a polar h10 band to have more precise data. What I like is to collect data when we mix run section during the workout or also to have an overall overview during workout with also stress levels and health data, that is what is partially missing on Apple Watch environment. I was looking to the new garmin 570, but also evaluating coros. Garmin sounds to me more accurate with also new v5 sensors, I am not a pro so it would be just a new way of tracking activities with different approach on battery side and health parameters such as body battery, stress levels and so on. What do you think!? 570 could be a good option? Thanks
r/crossfit • Smartwatches for CrossFit and life in general ->I legit had to bite the bullet and get a portable watch charger for the times I just didn’t have time to charge it before work. (I have a variable schedule so I can’t just charge it at the same time every day, and charging it when I shower the night before leaves me with at best 70 ish battery when I wake up—this is not always enough and sometimes I end up cutting it real close.) To be transparent, I have a refurbished S7 with 84% capacity, so it’s certainly not at its peak, but it’s also a rude awakening coming from fitbit. My old blaze I only had to charge every 2-3 days, the newer versa 4 I could get away with 4-5. But I eventually had to ditch the versa because notifications were inconsistent, I’d reboot it to fix it and it’d get stuck in a reboot cycle, and I got tired of not being able to control my music with it like I could on the blaze. (Unless you specifically use YT music… I don’t, lol.) I 100% get there are reasons it drains faster than other stuff but it’s still wild to me how much faster it goes than literally anything else I’ve owned.
r/AppleWatch • I’m really tired carrying an out-of-battery watch around. ->My trick with my S7 was to put a charger in the bathroom right next to the sink, so when I take a shower or wash up and naturally want to take off the watch, it goes right on the charger, and to your point, I **don't** have to think about it — basically, my S7 was on my wrist or on the charger, nowhere else. That said, my S7 was starting to lose its battery health, so I just upgraded to an Ultra, which only really needs one charge per day (when I'm in the shower) even with heavy use. That said — even the Ultra is designed for a routine that charges at least once every day or two on a routine. If you can't setup a charging routine, Apple Watches are not the best option.
r/AppleWatch • I find it very difficult to balance sleep tracking and battery life. What’s your approach to this? ->I have a series 7 it’s scratched up pretty good but still works for me. May wait one more year till I upgrade not sure if the longer battery life or hypertension defection is worth it yet.
r/AppleWatch • Thoughts on Apple Watch Series 11? ->There’s no rule saying you need to trash your Apple Watch before you buy a traditional watch. I have an Apple Watch Series 7 and wear it regularly. On long drives it’s great for directions. At the gym it’s great for calculating calories and monitoring heart rate. On walks or runs it’s great for measuring distance and easily pausing and playing music or podcasts.
r/Watches • [discussion] Those who went Apple Watch to Traditional ->With the AW’s magnetic charger and fast charge time, unless your activity itself lasts longer than the watch battery, I just don’t care how many days of charge Garmin has. It’s frictionless to throw the AW on the charger in the bathroom and have it fully charged after my shower. I went from AW7 to FR965 for the activity battery duration (plus physical buttons) but I may not buy Garmin again considering that the next time I need a new watch AWUs will be cheaper and probably have the battery capacity that I actually need for activities (plus mapping is so much better [responsive] on AWs it’s ridiculous). And FR965 features that sounded great, have been underwhelming. I tried to use PacePro for a 50k and it showed the correct distance almost never, at one point telling me I was over 100k from the finish when the whole gps course was only 50k and I was almost half done it…
r/GarminWatches • AW to Garmin - and maybe back?? - be honest ->I switched from AW Series 7 to Forerunner 965 and loving it so far. I do miss the Apple interface and a bunch of other stuff but just the battery life alone sold me to Garmin. My AW dies on my in the middle of my long runs/hike
r/Strava • Switching from Apple Watch to Garmin — is it really worth it? ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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