When your watch is open you can palm your watch to end the conversation though.
The initial beep doesn’t give you a lot of time to prepare for the incoming voice.There is an on/off status, and you will receive a notification if someone tries to reach you.Initial communication is interruptive, and hard to block due to the nature of Walkie Talkie.We experimented with using the Walkie Talkie application at first and came up with the following issues: This realization eventually led us to just leverage the Apple Watch for our high-throughput communication at home. At times though, we wouldn’t have our iPhones within reach and we would answer the call on our Apple Watch. In times when we’d want a little more throughput in our communication, we’d turn to FaceTime on our iPhone. This works well as the Apple Watch would allow us to dictate a message back, or the preferred thumbs up acknowledgment. We would often message each other via Facebook Messenger (our preferred chat application) if it wasn’t urgent.
With the whole working from home and just being at home with our young children (ages 2 and 5) our ability to communicate within the house is more important than before. I’ve used the Walkie Talkie feature occasionally with my wife over the years, mostly as a novel thing to try. I’m a little late to the party in terms of talking about it, but it’s only recently that I’ve formed strong opinions on it. This feature debuted in watchOS 5 (released Sept 2018). While I feel that this can generalize to the broader public, I’m sure there are plenty of people who appreciate this feature.
The first thing to note – this post is purely my opinion on Apple Watch’s Walkie Talkie feature based on my usage.
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