Is Apple watch worth it?

2 most used features are all my iPhone alarms, alerts, calendar events appear on my Apple Watch. I can see at a glance why I'm being notified. I can dismiss alarms, alerts, calendar events from my wrist.

Weather. I am constantly checking the weather via my wrist. And some Apps, such as MyRadar and WeatherBug will send you weather alerts including Rain Starting in 'n' minutes, which when I'm out riding my bike I find very useful.

My Ring.com video door bells actually send me a picture of what it saw that triggered the motion detection.

I can send messages from my wrist. Mostly to my wife. But since my Wife has an Apple Watch, she actually gets my messages, as before, her iPhone would be sitting on a charger in the kitchen, and she would never see them. Now, she sees them all.

While not critical, I do like tracking my exercise. And the stand reminders is useful to me, as I fly a desk all day, and it is a reminder to get out my chair at least once an hour. One nice feature, you can change the metrics in the bicycle exercise app so you can get your current speed as well as your average speed, heart rate, etc... It is nice being able to raise my wrist and see my current speed (again you have to modify the bicycle app, but it is a feature that is available)

I can open my garage door via my Apple Watch. Useful when I'm returning from a bike ride. (MyQ WiFi device added to garage that acts as a garage door remote to open and close the doors, when it receives an internet messages from my Apple Watch).

I really like being able to say "Hey Siri, give me a 5 minute timer" when I need to time something I'm cooking, or when my Wife says give me a timer, and I oblige to her request.

Walkie-Talkie is nice, when you are at the store, and you need to get an alternative product, as I can ask my Wife what alternative is acceptable. Could do that with the iPhone, but it is easier with the Apple Watch.

Corvid-19 hands free Apple Pay via my Apple Watch.

If my Apple Watch breaks or gets lost, I will get a replacement As Soon As Possible. To me it far exceeds my original expectations.

I have an Watch SE, GPS and cellular.

The independent GPS feature in the Watch is great!

I use the built-in GPS when I go out biking anywhere I am not familiar.

I use/wear it to make and receive calls instead of always pulling out my iPhone and to use for Siri queries.

I use/wear the Watch for Facetime audio calls or Skype audio calls

The Watch has a neat walkie-talkie feature so I can communicate with my wife anywhere in our home, either over Bluetooth, via my iPhone, or using our home wireless, WiFi network.

Have not tested this using cellular data, yet.

I can play Pandora Radio directly from my Watch via WiFi or cellular without using my iPhone.

I have my Watch configured to give me a decent amount of weather info, any time, at a glance.

Again, without having to pull out my iPhone or iPad or iPod Touch.

I use/wear my Watch when going out for a walk to track my steps, pace and distance walked. It also tracks my route.

I also have it on all day to track my steps doing anything, the amount of time I am up and standing for any length of time and when I am going up and down the flights of stairs in our apartment, for any reason ( trash, recycle, getting mail, laundry day, whenever I venture outside to actually check the weather for myself ).

I really do not know how useful the blood oxygen sensor in the Series 6 is.

Based on info here by other users/contributors here, a dedicated blood oxygen sensor, like the ones you put on the end of your finger, are more accurate and readily available in any major pharmacy and are cheaper to purchase for this task.

The Series 6 ECG feature is only equivalent to one lead of an 8 lead heart monitor and the lead the Watch mimics is the lead for detecting and monitoring A Fib.

There is no way any Watch, currently, can detect any early warning symptoms of an oncoming heart attack or stroke, which is what I really need such a watch/device to do.

Since I have long term heart issues, I can, at least get my heart rate any time from the watch.

And the Watch SE can detect an A Fib event and and send a warning, but that is it.

I use/wear my Watch to monitor my sleep and it acts as my alarm clock, since it is already on my wrist and always close to body or head.

I have my alarm music/sounds and haptic feedback set for loud and really strong vibrations against my wrist.

You can set an overall sleep alarm schedule for the week/weekends and this can be easily changed/modified, on the fly, on a per day basis if you change your sleep schedule any day of the week.

It will default back to the normal sleep schedule the following day.

I forgot about this one.

I, too, can view my text messages and emails, at a glance, from my Watch without ever having to go to my iPhone and either respond, save, dismiss or erase these all from just the Watch.

Why are asking other fellow users here what to do?

Do what you will.

If you feel the Watch does not meet your needs, return it and purchase something that does.

Best of Luck to You!`

I forgot about this one, also.

I, too, can view my text messages and emails, at a glance, from my Watch without ever having to go to my iPhone and either respond, save, dismiss or erase these all from just the Watch.