7 Useful Things Your Apple Watch Can Do Without Your iPhone Nearby

This might make you bold enough to leave your iPhone at home

Nikhil Vemu
Mac O’Clock
Published in
7 min readFeb 13, 2022

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The Nomophobia perhaps has come to an end. And Apple Watch users are the first to experience the blithe.

Nomophobia: (short for ‘no mobile phobia’) is a word for the fear of, or anxiety caused by, not having a working mobile phone. (Source: Wikipedia)

With the invention of the Apple Watch, the Cupertino giant revolutionised how we connect to each other, remember things, and keep track of our health. For the best part, we don’t need an iPhone for most of them.

It is such standalone.

Here are 7 things to try with your Apple Watch without your iPhone nearby.

#1. Track your activity 🏃‍♂️

silver aluminium case apple watch with while nike sport band
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I often see people using their mobile phones for fitness tracking. However,

While working out, it feels uncomfortable having a 200gm iPhone in pocket (for me, especially when my pants are loose). But if you use an Apple Watch for the tracking job, you’ll have some exclusive benefits:

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