Cautionary note: the digital touch drawing you receive may not be a flower …
It’s the ultimate 1st world geek problem: you can’t explore all the capabilities of your shiny new Apple Watch because you’re such an early adopter none of your friends yet have one. Digital Touch – the ability to send taps, drawings or heartbeats to someone else – of course only works with other Apple Watches.
Fortunately, the ultimate geek solution exists: there’s a Reddit thread for that …
r/lonelyheartbeats lets you post your email address so that strangers can send you taps, drawings or heartbeats.
Wired does warn that inviting strangers to send you digital drawings has predictable results, with Redditor nooshaw observing that drawings of male genitals are “the norm.” There are also all the usual risks of posting your email address on an open Internet forum, of course.
But if your Apple Watch is feeling lonely, and you really can’t wait for one of your friends to get one, both the Reddit thread and the website sharetheheartbeat.com have you covered.
Apple just redesigned its interface guidelines website for Apple Watch app developers, which stresses that apps should focus on lightweight interactions rather than lengthy use.
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You can also add yourself to the friendliest and send the digital touch (and heartbeat) to yourself ;-)
Hehe!
works great to test it out … the message fails to send but you still get to play around with it! thanks!
You get to digital touch yourself…
Insert Beavis and Butthead laughter….
I’ve heard that even if you don’t have your Apple Watch attached to your wrist, you can still send your “heartbeat” to someone else.
How does that work?
Unless Apple is lying about the actual live heartbeat being sent and not some digital facsimile, that would seem to be impossible.
Anybody on here with an Apple Watch able to test it?
The Apple Watch seems to send the last heart rate measured (as I tested it a few minutes after a run), so it can be up to 10 minutes old.
Apple uses the last-recorded heartbeat (you can, while wearing the watch, force an update of that by going into the heartbeat glance first). I haven’t tested sending it while not wearing the watch, but it might be possible, again using the last-recorded beat.
I still have to try this, but i would not do it with complete strangers on a site that anyone could send from, it could get really annoying…! So i will wait…!
pretty excited, my apple watch (42mm stainless) was supposed to be delievered in the 4-6 week range but it is going to be delievered today. Whats the first app I should download for the watch besides the obvious apps.
Same here.
If you like games, I really enjoyed the game Lifeline. You can play it on the phone but I liked it more on the watch.
magic 8 ball… I have a real one at home, and overtime I see it I use it. it’s just fun. having it on the wrist though… that’s just awesome :)
Ahah yes It Is ! What colour Is your Apple Watch ?
I got a watch for me and a watch for my Wife, so this problem is solved for me :) Still waiting for shipment to deliver though.. grrr lol