[Diabetes-Talk] Apple watch and G5

[ed worrell]

Hello,

Yes, I have an Apple watch and I too am using the G5 mobile app. Here are my thoughts using it everyday:

1. The alerts are much less distracting as you can mute the sounds on the Apple Watch and it mutes the alerts on your phone, or atlas the first alert. If you let the G5 mobile app send you the alert again it will make the loud alarm sound from the phone. Kind of defeats the purpose, but not a deal breaker for me.

2. Checking your wrist for your BG is cool, but I found the watch complication to not work all of the time. At the point of it not working you have to grab your phone and open the G5 app anyway. To me personally still not a deal breaker.

3. This is the biggest annoyance to me. If you get an alert and dismiss it from the Apple Watch alert it does not dismiss it from the app on the iPhone. Thus you still have to grab the phone, open the app, and dismiss the alert from the screen.

I have found either way if you check your blood sugar in a meeting it does not matter which way you do it. The other people in the meeting still don’t understand. To me it’s more of a pick your poison. The watch is a tiny bit more discreet with the alerts, and the ability to check your blood sugar quickly, but it really isn’t any different as VoiceOver chatters on both my iPhone and my Apple Watch.

The big advantage to me is that my Apple Watch is a true fitness tracker. I track my steps, Heart Rate, and now my blood sugar, as well as the Apple activity goals. This was the real reason I got the Watch anyway. I hope this helps, and feel free to ask more questions.

Thanks,

Ed 


> On Apr 6, 2017, at 7:41 PM, Jamie Gurganus via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello friends!  Has anyone used the Apple watch with their G5 mobile app
> yet?  I was at our main office today for a meeting and talked with a
> colleague who uses a Dexcom.  She not only has the G5 mobile app, but she
> told me that I should get an Apple watch too.  It makes the notifications
> less distracting at work, but also enables her to feel the buzz of the watch
> easier than hearing her phone at times.  I especially have been missing
> alerts due to sleeping with my phone in the pocket of a pair of shorts,
> since I don't want to disturb my husband at night.  I also tend to miss
> alerts when in the grocery store or in the car.  I am thinking that wearing
> the watch is better than holding my phone in these situations .   Before I
> make this purchase, I just wanted to make sure it worked with the Voice Over
> as well as it does on the iPhone.  Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
>                                                                Jamie
> 
> 
> 
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