Actors - Are Apple Watches irritating? — Page 2

I don't think we should even get to the point of optioning "theatre mode". Everyone has cell phones, already. They all have clocks on them. Just don't wear a light-up watch when you go to the theatre, Apple or Samsung or whatever. I'm a technology geek, so I get why people have them (I would like to have one, myself), but I'm smart enough to know not to wear one in a theatre. Or at least to keep it covered with a sleeve (though it's not a reliable option). Take it off and put it in your pocket! Put it back on when you leave the show! GAWD! I often forget how stupid people can be, but it slaps me in the face every time I sit in an audience for a Broadway show or Broadway tour.

CT2NYC said: "I'm surprised this is even a question. Any unncessary and preventable distractionin the theatre is unacceptable.Whether or not it annoys one person and not another is beside the point."

This. The conversation should have ended here.

Why is that easier than enabling a mode that turns the display off exactly?!

Oh good GAWD. Well, to be exact, I don't know if it's easier or not because like I said, I don't own one. I can't imagine that taking off a watch or simply not wearing one is more difficult. You don't even have to look for a mode or think about a mode or discover that you thought you disabled it when you didn't (as so many apparently do with their phones). I know that on my phone, I have to find the various mode icons as they get relocated often with OS updates. And honestly, people still can't remember how to disable their phones, much less adding another appliance they can't operate to the mix. And judging that this is a topic being discussed, whether it's easy or not isn't really the point because people can't or won't use the mode in question. If you know how to use the mode on your watch and you do so, then there is obviously not a problem. If you know how to use the mode and don't use it, stay home. If you don't know how to use the mode, stay home until you do. If you don't wear the watch to the show, you don't have to even think about the mode or how to use it or if you used it. That's pretty damn easy. Exactly.

Again. As the OP - I asked if it was noticeable (originally directed to actors but comments from audience members were appreciated).

I have my answer. Yes. Thank you. I will ensure my watch will not light up during a performance, as I try to be considerate of others in the theater and elsewhere.