All the Gory Details of The Apple Watch Survey

A few weeks ago, I did a survey on Apple Watch usage. I summarized the results in today’s newsletter (Sign up) along with some thoughts about how it relates to the future of the Apple Watch, but I wanted to share the entire survey results somewhere, so here you go.

There were just under 1,100 responses. I think you can assume the responses skew a bit on the nerdy side because, well, me. But overall, the data reflects that the vast majority of folks are very happy with their Apple Watches. 

The data below speaks for itself, but there were a few items that stood out to me:

  • The Apple Watch users are overwhelmingly satisfied with their watches. Those of us on the edges forget that most people just love their Apple products.
  • Many People (~40%) are wearing older Apple Watches (3+ years). At the same time, the Ultra is very popular (19.5%).
  • The big watch is much more popular than the small one. I know there are more men than women in my audience but I also suspect my gang thinks about battery life more than most consumers.
  • The cellular watch is more popular than I thought it’d be. I try not to think about the money I spend to have a cellular watch vs. the amount of actual usage it gets.
  • Seventy percent of those responding sleep with the Watch on at least sometimes. That is a much bigger number than I expected.
  • The feature usage numbers were not that surprising, except for Focus modes. I expected more people to be using the watch for Focus Mode shifting, and the numbers didn’t bear that out. I’ll be doing my next survey on how many people are actually using Focus Modes.
  • I got lots of email and comments from people using their Apple Watches in unique ways. While for most the watch is a time, notification, and activity device, for some users it’s a lot more.

Focused 184: Solving Problems, with Jay Clouse

Jay Clouse of Creator Science joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about the sawdust problem, the focus benefits of community, and finding the balance between quality and quantity.

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Mac Power Users 705: macOS Window Management

Since the dawn of multitasking, users have needed to juggle things on their screens. Apple has taken several swings at building good window management tools into macOS, but better solutions can be found in a long list of third-party apps. Stephen and I have tried just about all of them for this episode of Mac Power Users.

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Automators 134: Looking through the Window of Automation

On this episode of Automators, Rosemary and I are joined by Sal Soghoian to talk about everything from launchers such as Alfred, to window management, and more voice control!

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