An interesting experiment by Ben Bajarin:

When I told people about my experiment, many were curious if I used my phone less as a result. For a few weeks prior to this experiment, I had been using an app called Moment, which tracks your iPhone usage each day and how many times you pick the phone up, turn the screen on and look at it. While I didn’t see my iPhone usage in terms of hours per day decline during the week without the Apple Watch, I did see a significant drop in the number of times I looked at it. The average number of times I picked up and looked at my phone my last week with the Apple Watch was 74. This last week without the Apple Watch my average number of daily pickups was 102. I charted it to see the difference.

I went through a similar realization last week. I was supposed to pick up an Italian Apple Watch review unit (the one I’ll be testing for the next few weeks), so I gave my Apple Watch to my girlfriend, reinstalled iOS 8, and didn’t configure my Apple Watch Sport on the new system. For three days, I went without an Apple Watch, and I didn’t think I’d miss the simple ability to quickly look up messages, songs, and the time as much as I did. I haven’t worn a watch in a decade, and I’m surprised by how much I’ve come to expect daily updates to follow me around and tap me only when necessary.