Once you learn how to install apps on your new Apple Watch, it is not a big thing, but if you just removed the protective film, you're probably left a bit puzzled about how your new watch works. Let's take a look at how to transfer apps from your iPhone to your watch.
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If you are a smartphone veteran, either on iPhone or Android, never mind, you are used to the routine. Open the app from the app store for your device, search the application you want, click on “Install” and ready.
Despite this, when it comes to installing apps on your Apple Watch, things are a bit more complicated than just choosing the app from the App Store. Let's take a look at how to find apps and install them on your watch.
Location of applications compatible with Apple Watch
Not all iOS apps are inherently compatible with the Apple Watch platform (Watch OS), but there are certainly many developers on board with the watch. You can find applications for your watch through two methods. First, you can search for them through the traditional method in the App Store application on your iOS device or by browsing the application lists on the Apple web portal.
When browsing applications through the App Store application, any app that has an Apple Watch companion app / Watch OS will have a designation underneath, “Offers the Apple Watch app” as such.
When combining search terms such as “fitness tracker” and “apple watch”, application lists with the designation will quickly appear “Offers the Apple Watch app”.
Despite this, it's much more convenient to search from the actual Apple Watch app, as it has a built-in App Store interface tuned only for Watch OS apps.
If you open the Apple Watch app and tap the star “Highlights” in the bottom navigation pane, will launch watch centric app store with suggested apps and app genres like full app store.
We wanted to see if there is an app for our favorite to-do list software, Todoist, so let's search for that now with the search function.
Excellent! There is a clock app! Now this is where it gets a little tricky. The button “To open” it would seem that we already have the clock application installed, ¿no? Despite this, if it's time to open, the Todoist application opens on our iPhone and, actually, it has nothing to do with the Watch OS app. To get the app on our watch, we must install it manually from the Apple Watch application. Let's see how to do that now.
Manually install Apple Watch apps
Continuing with the Todoist clock app example above, Let's see the Apple Watch app and how to install the Watch OS app. To do it, we must open the Apple Watch application and scroll down on the main screen passing the default inputs such as “App design” and “General” down the list of Watch OS apps until we find the name of the app whose Watch OS companion app we want to install.
Select the application.
In the application submenu, you will always find the entrance “Show application on Apple Watch” and, often, will find “Show in looks” (even though not all apps offer eye gaze support on Apple Watch).
Minimally, must alternate “Show application on Apple Watch” to install the app and, If you wish, you can add it to the look list by toggling “Show in looks”.
Once it finishes installing, You will find the application on your Apple Watch by tapping the digital crown of your watch and selecting the application from the displayed applications, as seen above. Once the application starts, you can use the crown and / or touch screen navigation, depending on what the developer has enabled; in the final screenshot above, You can see us by accessing our Todoist project list, as an example.
Enabling automatic installation
One last setting you may want to enable is to turn on automatic installation so that, as you install apps on your iPhone that have companion Apple Watch apps, those apps will automatically install on the watch.
To do it, just open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and select “General”.
Subsequently, in general settings, select “Installing the application”.
Active “Automatic installation of applications” and, in the future, All companion apps will automatically install on your Apple Watch without intervention on your behalf.
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