Hilarious. . . we were befuddled by the same issue. I was trying to send my girlfriend a taptic touch from her phone watch app, but it just wouldn't come through at all. We were beginning to think the watch had gone dead for tactics. . . and even messages from my phone would not touch on her watch! Uh oh. . . defective watch. But her phone was operating while we were trying this. Put her phone to sleep and everything works as it's supposed to. DUH!
I can't wait for my Space Black SS Watch to arrive. . . but I have to. June. RATS!
Today I tried out a few things for the first time with it...
Driving directions— Magnificent! So. Much. Better. I set up the place I was going on the phone and the watch immediately went into that mode. I usually have the phone on the center console for directions. It’s not great but it worked. But this time I actually ended up just putting the phone back in my shirt pocket. The phone still gave audio directions, but the turn by turn and taptics on the watch were instantly intuitive (heh... It sounds and feels like a turn signal!) and far, FAR less distracting than looking down at the phone map.
Apple pay— since I still have a 5s phone I haven’t been able to use it until now. One of the places I went today (Petco) was set up for it. Worked like a charm. Pretty slick. I look forward to some kind of app that will present bar codes for customer loyalty cards. Would be handy.
So far I keep being impressed by how well designed, engineered and considered everything is. For a first generation product in a whole new line of products it’s just amazing.