![]() Since moving from my small Boston studio to a much larger suburban house, I frequently leave my iPhone in strange places: the hall closet, on top of the washer, the bathroom's music dock, buried under mail. I don't think I've used any feature more on my Apple Watch than Ping Phone, and it's almost (almost) worth the $350 just to be a glorified alert system. I've got a Modular face for my day-to-day, a Modular face designed specifically for roller derby coaching (replete with stopwatch, activity tracker, timer, and weather chart), and a more refined Utility and Photo face for going out in the evenings. The real beauty of the Apple Watch, however, is in how quickly I can change faces. I've recorded story ideas, song snippets, and on-the-spot interviews with Just Press Record, and all that audio gets automatically synced back to the iPhone and any other devices via iCloud Drive. No waiting three seconds for the app to query the iPhone. I need only tap the complication to launch the app and because Just Press Record takes advantage of Apple's native apps framework, it's speedy. ![]() Just Press Record (opens in new tab) is the complication that actually gets the most use, tapping-wise-the small complication is essentially a shortcut to the Just Press Record app, which hooks in to the Apple Watch's microphone to let you record anything in earshot. The app's had a bit of bugginess lately so I haven't used it as often as I did last fall, but it's still one of the smartest complications I've seen. I really like just about every other aspect of this app, but I can't do my job if I can't consistently send audio recordings from my watch to my phone (and then to my computer).When it comes to at-a-glance information, Carrot Weather (opens in new tab) has a deliciously snarky Apple Watch complication that not only tells you the current weather and any precipitation, but does so in a viciously amusing style: "It's frakking sunny" is just one of the complication's many bon mots.ĮTA (opens in new tab) incorporates the Digital Crown's Time Travel feature and traffic prediction to give you arrival estimates for a frequent location (for me, derby practice) depending on when you leave. The "send to iPhone" button that pops up when you force press an audio file on the watch app seems to do absolutely NOTHING. At first I thought the problem was that my files were quite large so it could take some time.but that doesn't seem to be the issue? For example, one 4hr audio file from a week ago refuses to sync to my phone even now, while another 4hr audio file and a 5hr audio file recorded more recently in the past few days have already been sent to my phone successfully. ![]() Sometimes the files will be synced, sometimes they won't the process is completely unpredictable. I've reset data sync via the Apple Watch app on my iPhone. I've reset network settings on my iPhone. I've tried what the JPR developers suggested on their website's FAQ page - placing phone and watch next to each other and opening the app on both simultaneously. ![]() I've recently started using Just Press Record on my Apple Watch, which works perfectly for this purpose, s ability to sync the recording files to my iPhone seems INCREDIBLY inconsistent. For my job I'm required to record a lot of meetings, interviews, etc.
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