New Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 fitness feature is surprisingly motivating

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 include a new fitness-tracking feature: live step tracking on the watch face. Alongside live heart rate data, it’s a surprisingly welcome and motivating change to the new hardware that I’m loving so far. New Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 fitness feature is surprisingly motivating.

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Before watchOS 27, the easiest way to force quit Apple Watch apps was by swiping across them in the App Switcher screen, but that’s no longer possible because the Digital Crown double-click gesture that got you there is now reserved for Apple’s upcoming Live Rewind AI feature. Fortunately, there’s still a way to force quit apps in watchOS 27.

No other to-do list app does what Google Tasks does. Google Tasks is a bad to-do list app, but I can’t quit it because of one killer feature.

From the app you want to quit, press and hold the Side button until the sliders appear. Then simply press and hold the Digital Crown until the watch face appears.

Whether you want something easy to use like TickTick or something seriously solid like Notion, there are endless options to choose from. Years ago, I would bounce back and forth between various to-do apps, always hunting for my next favorite one.

You’ve now quit the app. Quitting an app doesn’t save battery power, but it’s useful if the app is misbehaving.

For the last couple of years, though, I’ve been using Google Tasks for all of my to-do needs. Google’s to-do list app has all the basics, but compared to virtually every other alternative, it’s missing a lot of key functionality, some of which I find really frustrating.

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But despite that, I don’t see myself ever leaving Google Tasks, and it’s all because of one niche aspect of it I can’t live without. 65 votes Google Tasks 63 % TickTick 14 % Todoist 8 % Microsoft To Do 6 % Notion 0 % Other (.

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