Benefits of having an apple watch?

You have to have your phone nearby, as the watch connects with the phone. You can see emails and texts that come in and can answer a call on your watch. I had one but found it annoying.

Depends on the generation if it needs its own service. Mine does not (and does not work to its full potential when not linked to my phone). I love it as an activity tracker, seeing my calls and texts when they come in (handy when driving and at home when my phone is who knows where), and most importantly the page your phone feature which is priceless and used daily around here.

This is similar to why we bought one for my dd. A classmate rolled her car last winter. It was dark, she was thrown from her vehicle and couldn’t find her phone to call for help. She had to crawl to her house about a mile away. She had a broken pelvis and by the time she got to her house she had severe frostbite. I told dh that I wanted the watch for dd so if she was ever in an accident and couldn’t get to the phone that this may be an option for her.

I don't have an apple watch but I have a Galaxy watch active. It does not require a phone plan, it has Bluetooth and wifi.

It has a heart rate monitor, it records your steps, it keeps your calendar, emails, you can text from it, you can download Spotify playlist and listen to it without being close to the phone (good for outdoor exercise), it has a lot of random apps that I haven't tried yet. One thing I love about it is that I have it set as my alarm which vibrates instead of a noise alarm. I personally find this much less jarring than the noise, but some people feel the opposite. It is nice though that my alarm doesn't wake up my husband. It also records my sleep patterns.

It's nice to be hands free sometimes, like if I'm at a store and texting someone, I don't have to have the phone out. Also I like to use it as... A watch. The watch face I use displays the time, date, steps and floors (how many flights of stairs). You can make the watch face tell you all kinds of stuff, and there are tons of them out there. And for the Galaxy watch (don't know if this is true for Apple) you can make your own. This is only a fraction of what you can do with it, I consider myself a novice compared to others I've seen. Personally I think my watch is much more attractive than the Apple watch, I'm not into the square face.

I love mine. I use it to track my exercise when I play tennis or walk. The most valuable feature for me is that it will ping my phone when I misplace it in the house. As I do multiple times a day.

This is true. I guess I assumed everyone knew that the watch has to be paired with an iPhone to work, but after pairing they don't have to be in the same vicinity to work.

I love, love, LOVE my watch! It's a series 3 with cell service. It used to be DH's, but he never used it so he gave it to me. I went out that day, got rid of the black rubber man band, got a cute pink one and it has not left my wrist except to charge! Here are the things I do with it:

* Apple Pay. I hardly have to bring my purse anywhere to shop any more. I just pay with the watch. It's more secure and soooo convenient. I travel to London for work also, and I can use it virtually everywhere. My favorite is just waving my wrist at the contact points on the Underground. Wave in, wave out, multiple times per day and I get just a nice single charge daily to my credit card. Love love love.
* Texting - texts come to the watch and I can dictate a response right back.
* Email - I have one email that is just for important things (no spam etc) and I have it set to forward to the watch so I never miss an important email, which I used to do frequently pre-watch.
* Haptics - I like just getting a little tap to the wrist to remind me when I have a meeting or something on my schedule. I also like the way it taps my wrist when I'm using Apple maps for navigating. Fast taps for right turn coming up, and a different pattern for left turn coming up. Sometimes my kids are yapping or I'm listening to a podcast or something and I miss the verbal directions.
* Fitness tracker - fantastic. I have it synced to Strava and C25K and can start either with just a tap on the watch face.
* Music or podcast commands - can pause or ff very quickly.

I'm sure there are others, but these are the things that come to mind right away. I like it so much that I can see DH looking at it now with covetous eyes and I'm like 'TOO BAD, SUCKA!!! IT'S MINE NOW!!!'

I love mine. The newest models don’t need to be near the phone, they have their own cellular signal.

I use mine for lots of things, but the most useful is to ping my phone when I’ve put it down and can’t find it. 😂

I love mine too. What they said above!

Also there are lots of bands available so you can change it up. I have a rose gold one, and I’ve been buying dressy bands for mine on amazon. They’re really easy to change out, and match flawlessly.

This is my favorite one of the few I have, they’re stainless steel and I get compliments on them all the time.

Apple Watch 4: (with Cellular)

-takes away stress if you forget your phone somewhere.

Some of these benefits are because it is so much smaller than a phone and on your wrist so you are not holding a phone.
For example if you are a teacher, you can say "remind me to update Jafe's grade today at 3pm"
"Remind me 6am tomorrow morning to bring salad for the potluck"
 
(A lot of the Siri functions)

-allows you to check messages, get alerts in meetings without being extremely unprofessional

-take calls 

-Set timer and reminders

Absolutely. This is local to me, and it was on the news for over a week. Horrific but thankful for his watch for sure. Three of us have the newest Apple watch, and we love them. In fact, my daughter's alerts her to aFib episodes quite often. Monday, she took those episodes, uploaded them to pdf files, and sent them to her cardiologist at Duke for her appointment yesterday. When we went, he said that it is actually pretty accurate, and he likes them. He said not as accurate as a 12-lead EKG but still accurate. That was great to hear. I also love the exercise feature, the phone, the texting, all of it. I only wish I could see my step count more easily. That's it. I think the completing "rings" is stupid.

Even my Series 1, which is still going strong, has that valuable pinging feature. I’ve loved it long time!

Kristen, 
I believe you are interested in fitness, correct?  Anyhow, it has a little feature to remind you to keep active.  So I sit at my desk a lot now.  It reminds me to stand up more often and move around.  Here's (I hope a good article.  A picture anyway.) activity tracker  It keeps it cute and you can "close your rings"  if you're good for that day and track how you did for the week or month.  You can, if you want, join groups I guess to keep you more active and compare you did.  

Of course it keeps your steps as well.  

It have a Breathe reminder.  I was having a time when I was over stressing and the Breathe feature just reminded me to stop and take a moment.  

I'm slowly learning new ways to let it do more for me.  I'm using my calendar more and the reminders more.  

I hope this helped you spend more money.  LOL