Cabel SasserDo you use the Apple Watch “Walkie-Talkie” feature?
No, Never
Maybe, Once or Twice
Yes, Often
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Gareth Harmer@cabel Tried it once, never worked, gave up.
Collin Donnell@cabel I would if it ever worked for me and anyone wanted to use it with me.
tcduff@cabel Used it all the time when caring for an ailing loved one.
Brody 🚀 Brooks@cabel I remember when that came out and I thought it looked like it would be super convenient! The few times my partner and I tried it, we'd miss each others' calls constantly because the receiver's wrist wasn't close enough or were in a loud space.
So back to texting.
Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)@cabel None of my friends have an Apple watch and my wife use Android.
Louie Mantia, Jr.@cabel I deeeeeeeply want to but I can never get in the habit
John Willis 🔰@cabel just used it 20 minutes ago to talk to my wife while she is on her way down to Tokyo.
We use iMessage almost always, but when you have a short message you want to make sure they hear immediately, with no action on their part (she is driving), it is a great way to communicate.
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Chase Martin 
@cabel I wish I used it more along with voice messages.
Dan Cooper@cabel it’s not the most reliable, but it has been a communication breakthrough for my son with autism
Tim@cabel My wife refuses to let me even try it.
Probably wise of her.
Michael Egan 🇨🇦@cabel my toddler loves walkie-ing our watch-wearing family from my watch just for fun. And I used it this morning when us parents split up in the grocery store.
It feels very silly in public but I can’t complain with the results.
@cabel let me do it from an iPhone with a action button then ask me again
ben burbank@cabel it feels like it has big "I don't want to walk across the house to ask this dumb question" energy. We'll see if we use it that way, as I'll finally get one of these aWatches in a few weeks
samf@cabel Tried to. Buggy and unreliable. Haven’t in years.
DJ Tent Mode@cabel I just learned about it today… from my kids who love it.
Chris Coleman@cabel I have a perfectly good phone right here. Also, there's a perfectly good phone in the watch.
I think it's a nice feature, but I just never think to use it.
Marc Robinson 
@cabel The only person I can think to use it with would probably give me funny looks for not texting. 😄
Craig Hockenberry@cabel We text each other, even if it's across the room. Less invasive when wearing headphones and “it just works”.
Scott@cabel my kids have only watches, and we use it all the time with them. Gives them tons more freedom to run around the neighborhood without us.
David Glover-Aoki@cabel More or Less than HomePod “intercom”?
Connor Graham@cabel I had basically never used it until my wife and I recently moved into a house and had our first kid and needed an easy way to send quick messages between rooms or floors!
derek the solarboi@cabel I can't use it anymore, because once after a swim, my Apple Watch speaker died and Walkie-Talkie is useless now 😞
Andrew Madsen@cabel I use it exclusively with my 8 year old son who has an Apple Watch but not a phone. Works great.
Joe Welch@cabel I use it with my wife when we lose each other in a store. Great for that use case.
Jehan Alvani@cabel My 9y.o. has an Apple Watch and no phone. It’s perfect for checking with parents when he’s at a neighborhood friend’s. Use it all the time for that.
savaran@cabel I would use it more if the times it would have been the most useful it had just worked
Ethan Mateja@cabel The kid in me really thinks that it sounds cool! I just don’t have a practical use.
Christarpher@cabel It doesn't work nearly reliably enough to warrant even trying to use it.
Jeff Scott@cabel you mean the cornerstone Apple WatchOS 5 feature that never worked and Apple hasn’t touched since launch?
piofthings@cabel haven’t figured it how to make it work yet… not that I tried very hard!
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@cabel Both that, and the “Intercom” on the HomePods gets reasonable use in this house.
Mario Panighetti@cabel tried when it launched, it kept failing, haven’t really looked back since.
Jake@cabel I thought they removed it?
oliverw@cabel Tried it, wanted it to work to communicate with wife and kid (with Apple Watches). Didn’t work. Would like it to
Laura Suzuki@cabel I have to admit I don’t use it now, but a few years ago when my disabled son was attending a community college program across the city it saved our bacon a few times whenever there was an emergency.
Rafael “Akai” Masoni@cabel I wish I could. Tried with my partner and it worked less than 50% of the time.
Chuck Skoda@cabel I answered no never. I did test it once, but that was just to understand how it worked. It wasn’t like I actually used it to accomplish its intended benefit.
Kyle@cabel if I had anyone in my life I could use it with…
Todd Thomas 
@cabel like many others we find it way too unreliable. ‘that person is not available’. sure jan.
shukuyen@cabel I do, wish it was more reliable though (~60% success rate)
can@cabel is there a trick to make it work reliably?
Kyle Hughes@cabel exclusively on jet skis
Stefan Grund 
@cabel Never used it until last week when my wife finally got her first Apple Watch. Now we’re talking when we’re on different floors in our house, etc. It‘s great!
VNKR@cabel it’s unusable because the watch isn’t a Walkie-Talkie. This is super easy to fix: allow replaying the last message after you realised you didn’t hear it.
Moritz Dietz@cabel Voted "once or twice" as I tested it with a friend when it came out. But I *really* want to because this is a childhoods dream come true.
Lee Hord@cabel It’s “Do you use the Apple Watch “Walkie-Talkie” feature?” over!
Uberbrady@cabel My wife and I used to use it all the time, but one of the software updates seems to have nearly destroyed it, and it seems to no longer work consistently, so now, I pretty much ignore it completely.
Mathias af Jochnick@cabel you should have had more options. Quite a huge difference between ”once or twice” and ”often”. for me; ”every one in a while”
Jeff Carlson@cabel Tried it once, and my family forbade me from ever doing it again
felface@cabel I would try it if I knew anyone else with an some watch that wanted to try it
Brian Enigma@cabel Exactly one day. At Black Spire Outpost. And then 100% text messages because they were understandable in the noise and were realtime-but-logged and not realtime-but-oops-you-missed-the-message.
7 [KINGOFSHIBUYA Ltd.]@cabel i wish. It works so well and when it came out myself and few others used it.
It just seems to be abandoned and hasn’t been redesigned to work in a way that reflects how people actually want to use it, unlike the rest of the watchOS which has been completely redone like 3 times now.
If Apple put it inside of iMessage on iPhone, iPad, and Mac that would instantly improve its usefulness. Its other issue is that leaving it on kills watch battery life noticeably.