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I'm sure it will survive showering but I'd be worried about the residue of foam/soap... shampoo/body soap has all kinds of conditioning agents which are good for your skin but leave a gunky residue on shower tiles and the watch :rolleyes:
 
Part of the rating it has means it passed a force water test... But yeah why risk it

I have a fully waterproof G Shock and I still don't shower with it. You have to take the watch off after the shower to dry off anyway so might as well just take it off.
 
I'd love to see the video of cleaning speaker and mic cavities.

Careful what you wish for. This is the first watch that millions of people will be wearing on their wrists while working out, so there will be gunk in cavities to be cleaned out on video. Even my in-ear headphones are already shipped with a little tool designed to clean the gunk. yuck!
 
I will not be showering with mine. The main reason being that I currently have a classic leather buckle, which I obviously don't want getting soaked with water / soap. Even when I get my Milanese loop, I won't be showering with my watch because the humidity and temperature alone can be damaging. That, and I don't want soap and other chemicals causing issues with the screen or anything like that.

Also, I like being secluded when in the shower. No calls, no texts, no emails.
 
I wouldn't be scared to shower with my watch. My only concern is how it would effect the leather band.
 
Careful what you wish for. This is the first watch that millions of people will be wearing on their wrists while working out, so there will be gunk in cavities to be cleaned out on video. Even my in-ear headphones are already shipped with a little tool designed to clean the gunk. yuck!

I meant what kind of tool would be needed to clean gunk from cavities withiut damaging speaker and mic, the orifices are so tiny! The only way to see what's there is to shine light with an optic fiber and use a 30x loupe.

Here's an i⌚ user after the shower:

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Being able to use it in the shower is an ultimate convenience.

Well now there is a real purpose for the AW!

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i use it to control my bluetooth speakers in the bathroom while in the shower. i.e. skip songs.


Honestly? people can't imagine a use for it?


**also want to make sure you aren't taking a too long a shower.
** also someone mentioned, you don't want to miss a call or messages (which i got one while in the shower the other day**

I do the same thing without my watch, it is called a "Playlist":p
 
I've had a waterproof Pebble watch for couple of years, and have yet to wear it in the shower. Two reasons:

• until it dries it feels clammy yucky.
• just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I plan on continuing this policy when I get my :apple: Watch.
 
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I use my :apple: watch in the shower everyday. Watch comes out looking pristine afterwards. Consideration of thought, the soap has to make its way into an opening, which considering the viscosity of soap and shampoo, is unlikely for such tiny openings. In the unlikely event that it makes its way in there, a simple rinse in the shower should bring it back out.
 
It's a matter of convenience. Once you strap it on, you never have to worry about it again, unless it stops working.

The same is true for the reason you remove glasses, and clothes before sleep -- comfort and convenience. Glasses have to be cleaned after they have been gotten wet to avoid water spots in your vision, so that generally creates more problems than it's worth, but I do know some people with very bad eyesight who wear glasses in the shower, or they wouldn't even be able to find the soap when they dropped it. Wearing uncomfortable footwear in bed would not be comfortable and detrimental to the sleep process. The same from bulky work clothing. Besides that the clothes would get wrinkled and transfer dirt to the bedding, again making it more trouble than it's worth. Some people do wear socks and softer pajamas to bed, and I'm sure a few do wear workboots to bed if they are in environments where needing to get up suddenly at night and be immediately alert and ready to move (say a soldier in a war zone).

For me, I wore a watch 24/7 for about a decade. It was a light titanium Citizen chronograph that worked in all settings. I could work out in it, shower in it without worrying about it getting stolen in the locker room, dropping it on the hard tile floor, or misplacing it. It was loose enough on my wrist to allow me to move it enough in either direction to wash beneath it. I could swim in it, I could sit in the hot tub in it, etc. I never had to worry about it ever. I never found it particularly uncomfortable in bed, certainly far more comfortable than any pajamas I've ever worn which tend to bunch and get caught up when you turn during the night, yet millions of people wear some form of clothing to bed.

And as others have pointed out, the Watch offers even more compelling reasons never to take it off, because it can be used to answer that all important phone call, text, or e-mail without exposing your iPhone to water or accidents (I had a friend who knocked his iPhone into the toilet when he reached for it from the shower to take his bosses call). Playing with your children in the pool, while working is priceless.

But that's not an option yet for the Watch, despite the fact I've never seen a watch priced over $350 that wasn't able to withstand IPX 8 30 meters -- a market Apple appears to be competing head to head with unlike their cheaper smart watch competitors.
This can be true for a regular watch, but an Apple watch needs to be taken off each night to charge anyways. I don't know about you, but typically I wake up in the morning and then take a shower. Why would you put your watch on only to jump in the shower?

I used to shower with my mechanical G Shock maybe once every couple months just to keep it clean, but it's far from comfortable having a watch slide up and down your soapy wrist.
 
If you live alone, are expecting a very important phone call or text, but also need to take a shower.

How about if you live alone and you are expecting a very important UPS package and you want to be able to use your apple watch as a viewfinder of the security camera that is staring at your doorstep. Also you can probably talk to the watch which is tied to the microphone that you set up outside to tell the UPS guy that you'd be right there.
 
This can be true for a regular watch, but an Apple watch needs to be taken off each night to charge anyways. I don't know about you, but typically I wake up in the morning and then take a shower. Why would you put your watch on only to jump in the shower?

I used to shower with my mechanical G Shock maybe once every couple months just to keep it clean, but it's far from comfortable having a watch slide up and down your soapy wrist.

Again to each his own. My experience was with wearing my Citizen, not a recommendation for the Watch which needs to be charged daily. However, charging it over night becomes a problem for those who want to use it for sleep monitoring too (but maybe those people will do it at their office while sitting at their desk). Of course I'm not advocating putting on the watch when you get up to take a shower, but then again, it's right there by your bedside. Take it off while lying in bed, put it on while laying in bed. Next best thing to having to forget about it. I typically do not take a shower until after I eat breakfast anyway. But, after a shower any number of things could happen to cause you to forget about putting the watch on -- an urgent work phone call, a family emergency, waking up late ...

It's a personal thing, so I'm perplexed why this debate continues to arise -- some people like the convenience of never taking off their watch. Most all metal watches that retail for $350+ are rated to wear in the shower, and many people do. The Watch has a number of deficiencies that traditional watch wearers will have to adjust to -- water resistance and battery life are chief among them. Apple positioned the Watch as wristwatch replacement in it's design and marketing, but it isn't quite there yet. Now I agree that not being able to wear the watch in the shower is a minor inconvenience that is more than made up by what the Watch does over a traditional watch. Battery life is a much bigger adjustment for watch owners who have to add an additional daily routine. My house is littered with convenience devices that are regularly uncharged when I most need them because I forgot to put them on the charger. THere's plenty of people who have trouble with very simple routines like this, which I can attest by the number of my friends who constantly are running low on their iPhone battery because they forgot to charge it -- how could they forget to charge something that is so central to their lives when they know that every single day it has to be charged!? And Apple wants these people to remember to charger their watch too?

So it'a all personal, and people will either adjust their current routines or they won't wear an Watch. Eventually this won't be a problem with wearable, but for now it may be an issue for some.
 
I've seen the CNET video and read the specs... AppleWatch water resistant up to 1meter/3ft for 30mins (IPX7 rating). BUT... had to see for myself (I got AppleCare)

Burn calories while showering... on a side note my watch was off the charge for at least 30+ mins at the time and it was still at 100% battery. An hour later at my desk and its at 99% I have zero battery life worries

pretty stupid! AS or not they know if the watch has been in the water.
and claiming it as accidental is outrigth fraud
 
I've showered with mine every day since it has arrived. Not a single issue yet. It's great for changing the song on the bluetooth speaker. I also tend to take longs showers so it keeps me on time in the mornings.
 
pretty stupid! AS or not they know if the watch has been in the water.
and claiming it as accidental is outrigth fraud

it's a water resistant watch... this is not a phone. Apple will replace it if the water seal fails.
 
I've personally accidentally knocked my phone into the toilet doing that. Friends of mine have dropped the phone on the tile and shattered the glass, and others have had it slip out of their hands and into the shower tub. And yes, I've taken an important call while standing in the shower, with the water off.

Dozens of people are reporting they enjoy making calls via the watch mic/speaker, so perhaps you should have your watch checked. The watch is designed to make a persons life easier by leaving their iPhone stowed and out of harms way. Being able to use it in the shower is an ultimate convenience.

Have you taken a selfie yet? :D
 
I wouldn't shower with it but if I could I'd use it at the beach. However, I'm sure the salt water will destroy the watch slowly.
 
Out of curiosity (and I don't know so please be kind) would the rating have anything to do with the bands as well as the watch itself or is it just the actual watch piece? I know Apple specifically mentions about the leather bands but maybe water damages the bands in general more then it does the watch. Just an observation. After seeing all these tests people are posting, particularly the one on the main Macrumors page with the swimmer and submersion, I was thinking maybe the watch is better off then we all think and that the concern is more for the bands. Anyone else have thoughts or can clarify?
 
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