Congratulations 🎉 on your first Apple Watch purchase! I am thrilled to hear that you got an Ultra; did you get the new black titanium or the natural that has been there since last year?
As you pick up your Apple Watch Ultra 2 today, put on the included Trail Loop/Alpine Loop/Ocean Band or titanium band, charge it up for a few minutes and then turn it on. Have your iPhone in your hands and wait for a pop up to come up. Follow the steps on your iPhone to pair your Apple Watch; if you have any problems you can talk to the Specialist who helped you pick up your Apple Watch if you’re doing it in person at the Apple Store, or leave a message here/get ahold of Apple Support if needed. The same people that take care of your iPhone will always be there to help you with your Apple Watch, as well.
For apps, when it comes to Apple Watch Ultra users they favor not just the largest Apple Watch screen size and extended battery life, but also are primarily involved in the outdoors, sporting and rugged/tactical gear. Though I don’t wear an Apple Watch Ultra as it is a brick 🧱 on my wrist, I can still give recommendations based on my own experience over 8 years of wearing an Apple Watch ⌚️, series 1 and a 6. As an Apple Watch Ultra user you get the added privilege of personal safety features like the siren 🚨 that can fend off intruders or beg for help with its super LOUD speakers 🔊. It can be accessed as a separate app or as Ultra users had been taught to do so, in the menu where you turn off or trigger Emergency SOS by pressing and holding either the side or Action button down for a few seconds.
If you are comfortable with wearing your Apple Watch to sleep track with it, you should try out the third party app Peaks. Designed by two indie developers who are also Apple Watch users for Apple Watch users like us, these young developers created an app to promote healthy habits and generate a routine based on energy levels from sleep and heart rate data. Free and NO ADVERTISEMENTS on this app; and though the subscription is not required to use the app, you can get full access instantly if you have the time to provide feedback and meet 1:1 with the developers via teleconference call, which after that they’ll give you a special code to unlock full access to the app for a year. Definitely try it out, I even recommended it to other Apple Watch users as well. Routines can be adjusted to suit your schedule.
Plant Nanny is another cool water tracking app that has an Apple Watch app and lots of complications. Users of all ages love to collect in-game plants 🪴 and ‘water’ plants by drinking water and logging water intake. Supports HealthKit and only bad things is the ads and iPhone is required to log the water, but it supports live activities and widgets as well. Lots of testimonials show that users with health issues enjoy playing this game to track their water intake.
Lastly, if you have Siri Shortcuts on your iPhone, you can pick your favorite shortcut and assign it to the Action Button, asides from complications or having to ask Siri to do it. Huge advantage of this unique feature for Apple Watch Ultra; if I had one I would put my laundry tracker shortcut on it.
