![]() Accuweather has no way to swap between locations or see any detailed conditions. This lack of real functionality is one thing I've seen in far too many apps on Wear OS. ![]() You can't even start a round from it because rounds have to be started on the phone barring a standalone mode that isn't available yet. If you're not actively playing a round, it doesn't display much of anything. It just shows the course you're currently on and your overall score. Speaking of unhelpful, the GolfPad Tile that you can add to the right of your watch face is just about useless. You shouldn't have to pull out the phone for the first three shots, then maybe use the watch once you're within range of the green. Seeing that the green is 300 or 400 yards on a Par 5 with a water hazard isn't helpful at all unless you're on a straight hole with no large hazards. What GolfPad really needs to add - and has not announced plans to add - is a way to see distances to hazards and where you can reasonably hit the ball. GolfPad says that club tracking is coming soon, eliminating the current need to add the clubs afterward, along with a standalone mode. The lack of map also makes the "Position Flag" option on the watch completely useless, as it drops the flag where you're standing rather than down the hole where you're trying to hit.Īfter playing two rounds with the app installed, my dad definitely felt the missing features here. Given that there are four tiles worth of options to the right of the main screen for each hole, it's odd that you can't get even a basic map of the hole on one of them. And because you can't see a map or tap it for ideal shot distances, that's one to three more times you'll need to pull out the phone per hole. There's no way to view a course on the watch, nor can you figure out how far you need to hit safely away from hazards or where the course turns. This means you'll still be pulling out your phone at least once every hole, in fact, probably more than once.Ī lack of a map turns GolfPad's watch app into an afterthought. It can't track golf clubs, so if you add shots on the watch, you have to go back and add which club you used while you're walking between holes or waiting for the group ahead to clear the fairway. However, the GolfPad Wear OS app can only keep score right now. He could start the round, look at the app when he needed more information, then swap to the watch for adding shots and putts as he went through each round. On the Galaxy Watch 4, that's not the case. ![]() With previous watches, GolfPad had to be pinned and open on the phone the whole game. I'm going to preface this by saying that my dad has been using GolfPad for well over a year, and he's often had issues with the app when it comes to app pinning and exiting app pinning when he needs to access another app. Source: Ara Wagoner / Android Central (Image credit: Source: Ara Wagoner / Android Central) ![]()
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