Apple Watch Put to the Phoneless Challenge

Over a seven-day period last week, the Loup Ventures team decided to go phoneless. We used only a cellular Apple Watch S4 and left our iPhones turned off.

We set out to use the Apple Watch as our only device — a use case for which it is not intended. It’s clear that in terms of battery life, functionality, and the user experience, Apple designed the Apple Watch as a companion device for the iPhone. The cellular Apple Watch is great for temporarily leaving your phone behind, but not for powering it down permanently.

Going phoneless was less painful than we thought it would be. Even core phone use cases like making and receiving calls (with AirPods), reading emails, and checking calendars are easy on an Apple Watch. There is certainly not feature parity from iPhone to Apple Watch, but the Apple Watch fared mostly well doing the basics. Below are our top likes:

Throughout the week there were lots of things we couldn’t do or didn’t want to take the extra time to do on the Apple Watch. Below are our top dislikes:

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