Hi, Turning Reduce Motion on should speed up the watch a bit.
Best, Anna > On Jan 8, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: > > So is that turn it off or on? > > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf > Of Robin Christopherson > Sent: Thursday, 7 January 2016 10:01 PM > To: VIPhone <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Greatly increase the speed of your Apple Watch > > Dear listers > > I got this tip from a mainstream tech podcast and it has increased the speed > and responsiveness of my watch significantly. On the watch go to Settings > > General Accessibility > Reduce motion and it stops all the animations on app > startup and fancy transitions when you move between screens. I’m not sure how > much it impacts the visual aesthetics of the UI in general but for me it’s a > small price to pay for far greater responsiveness of the device. > > For info I also have it set to wake on wrist raise (under General in Settings > on the Watch) but not for VO to speak on wrist raise (under Accessibility in > the settings in the Watch app on the phone) which can also improve > responsiveness in as much as the screen is awake when you do the first tap on > it to hear what is under your finger and you don’t first have to do a tap to > wake the screen but at the same time you don’t get VO chirping away all the > time as you generally move your arm around. > > For info the above settings of reduced motion and wake on wrist raise > typically give me around 40-50% battery at the end of the day after using it > for general tasks and also four or five 10-15 minute workouts. Not sure how > that compares to others experience but just for info. I should probably add > that I also have it set to wake for 15 seconds rather than 70 and as I have > sighted family around I don’t have screen curtain on. I believe it’s an OLED > screen on the watch so screen curtain should have a significant impact as > there is no backlight unlike on the phone. > > Thanks, Robin > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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