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Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE lets you stay connected without your iPhone thanks to its cellular connection and the ability to make and receive phone calls, send and receive messages and use certain applications like mail and music.
Leaving your iPhone behind and staying connected with Apple Watch can be perfect for outdoor workouts, breaking your addiction to the iPhone, or just trying to be more in the moment without disconnecting completely.
Apple Watch includes several built-in apps that are useful here, but there are some important apps that are not yet on Apple Watch. Fortunately, there are third-party applications to help you leave your iPhone …
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By using Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE and an active cellular connection, you can access a number of Apple services and applications without your iPhone.
Siri works like when you're connected to Wi-Fi or connected to your iPhone, music plays Apple Music and your iCloud music library, and Maps tells you directions and points of interest nearby. You can even use Apple Pay in Google Wallet on Apple Watch with or without an Internet connection.
There are still some built-in apps that Apple does not offer on Apple Watch today, however, that third-party apps can override.
1Password for Apple Watch can store a lot of information that you might need to access in a pinch without your iPhone. User names and passwords, credit cards and bank account numbers, driver's licenses, social security numbers and even important notes can be secured behind a password on Apple Watch for access without iPhone. This can replace iCloud Keychain which is not visible on Apple Watch.
Drafts Apple Watch is a great alternative to the Notes application. You can play important text files without your iPhone for notes you have already created, and Drafts even lets you create new notes with dictation or Scribble input.
These entries appear again on your iPhone and iPad when you reconnect. I am a big user of Apple Notes personally, but there is no Apple Watch app yet and Drafts can bridge the gap.
Bear for Apple Watch is another alternative of the Notes application that allows you to read and write notes without your iPhone. Bear uses a carousel browser that looks like most of Apple's new Apple Watch applications, and Bear has the advantage of having apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac like Apple Notes.
Just a press record Apple Watch is a super simple audio recording application that works without the iPhone. You can create your own voice notes, record other people or simply capture the sounds of nature from your Apple Watch.
Recent recordings can even be played back with the Apple Watch's built-in speaker or via Bluetooth, and they're synced to the iPhone when they're connected. Just Press Record syncs synonymous with iCloud Drive so you can record on Apple Watch and sync clips to iPhone and Mac (yes, there's even a Mac app!) Automatically.
The other benefit is voice memos, even those recorded on Apple Watch, use the speech-to-text feature on iPhone to show you what you said when it's possible. Super helpful if you rely on voice memos on the iPhone, but want to leave your phone behind you.
outcast for Apple Watch (reviewed) is the best way to sync episodes of your favorite podcast for playback without iPhone. watchOS 5 will bring playback of Apple podcasts to the Apple Watch this fall (probably in September), but for now, watchOS 5 is only a beta developer and a full beta of bugs.
Outcast allows you to find and download podcast episodes directly on your Apple Watch – without running a beta developer during the summer – and new features continue to be added regularly.
Some honorable mentions: chirp and nano. Chirp is a complete Twitter application alternative for Apple Watch, which is really useful since Twitter withdrew their abandoned monitoring application. View your calendar, mentions, direct messages, tweet, and do a lot more on LTE – without your iPhone. Nano is made by the same developer and allows you to check with Reddit on your Apple Watch without your iPhone. I believe that Instagram has cut its API some time ago, but I would also like to see one for Instagram.
What are your favorite Apple Watch apps that help you leave your iPhone behind? Let us know in the comments!
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