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Ask HN: Please suggest a smart watch that can be customized

9•VladVladikoff•1d ago
I’m looking for an affordable/cheap smart watch than can be modified. Ideally I just want to put a custom image background and lockdown/disable all other smart features, especially games or things like that. And preferably cheap enough that when my kid inevitably loses it or breaks it I won’t be crying over the wasted money.

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randycupertino•1d ago
Not apple watch! You CANNOT turn off the "smart stack" and it's really obnoxious there is no way to entirely mute or remove it.

I've customized all the settings as much as possible to have it not auto-turn on when you raise your arm, removed all the apps from the "smart stack," turned off "Auto-Launch Live Activities," turned off scroll crown to enable smart stack, and followed a bunch of other online tutorials on how to get rid of it and the damn thing still pops up ALL THE TIME. It's really obnoxious I will be in meetings and the stupid smart stack will self-launch and be buzzing me and distracting it's incredibly infuriating there is no way to remove it entirely.

runjake•19h ago
Can you elaborate? I have a Series 11 and I never see the Smart Stack.

I’m not even sure how to get it to show up.

randycupertino•19h ago
I am jealous. Mine comes up all the time and there is no way to stop it!

I've followed the instructions in all of these threads and it still self-launches!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/186uiup/why_doe...

https://www.gearpatrol.com/tech/apple-watch-disable-live-act...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255159491?page=2&sortBy...

https://www.reddit.com/r/watchOSBeta/comments/1ee7pwy/how_ca...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255781207?sortBy=rank

fsflover•1d ago
Here you go: https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/
VladVladikoff•1d ago
Funny, this is the one I found that looked good. Seems like I was going in the right direction.

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