Federicon Viticci reviews ETA’s new Apple Watch addition.

On Apple Watch, ETA has a useful glance that puts essential data just a swipe away from the watch face. You can choose in the main Watch app which address you want to show in the glance, which will display estimated travel time, traffic status, distance, and time of arrival. If you tap the glance, you’ll be taken to that location in the Watch app, which has a Maps preview you can tap to get directions in the Maps app on your device.

I’ve spent about a week testing the new ETA, and I found its traffic predictions to be accurate in Rome and Viterbo. I would have liked to see notifications for slowing traffic and suggested alternative routes as I’m driving, but even without those I relied on the glance (with my iPhone plugged into my car’s dashboard) to quickly peek at time of arrival and make better decisions about the route I was going to choose.

This will be going on my Apple Watch today.