I really want my watch display to stay on the whole time I’m swimming. It’s really hard to check progress without stopping. Why isn’t this possible?
Apple Watch Series 4, watchOS 6
Unless it is a Series 5, the Apple Watch will only stay on for at most 70 seconds. This is to conserve battery life
The Series 5 has a low refresh mode to conserve battery life, but even then it dims the display brightness, again to conserve battery life.
That would make the answer to my question as:
Apple considers its customers incapable of understanding the concept of "battery life" and excluded the possibility of allowing customers to manage, according to their specific needs. iWatch screen-time
I was hoping someone would come up with a neat hack, or tell me that the watch display burns out easily, or some kind of good reason.
I suppose the answer makes sense, considering the customer hostile IOS 13 user interface changes to some native apps (like mail). But that's an entirely different rant; I knew what I was getting into when I abandoned android.
Apple has rarely built a product that gives the user broad tweaking control. They lean towards the basic "Toaster" design. And it seems to have been a rather profitable approach, so I would not expect it to change anytime soon.
Apple made it that way to protect it from letting water in.
That does not make any sense to me.
How does the state of the watch-face display affect the water tightness of a sealed unit?
How to keep the display permanently on while swimming?
