Your smartwatch is an unlikely festival essential, from paying without digging out your phone to finding your way back…
Your smartwatch is probably not the first bit of festival kit you pack. Tent, charger, waterproof jacket, earplugs, decanted booze, possibly a slightly optimistic number of outfits – all of those usually come first.
Still, the right watch and some tweaked settings can make a big difference once you’re through the gates.
A smartwatch can help you pay for food without digging out your phone, find your way back to your tent, track down a missing device, contact help in an emergency, and keep basic features running long after your phone is dead.
The slight catch is that most of this needs setting up before you arrive. Patchy signal, crowded fields, low battery, and tiny on-watch menus are a poor combination when you’re trying to fix something in the moment.
So before you head to your next festival, spend a few minutes getting your watch ready. These are the five...
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