If there's a great Apple Watch companion app for one of your favorite iPhone apps, but it is not installed on your Apple Watch, that is not of much use. Despite this, with a quick change of settings, you can set your Apple Watch to automatically install all the add-on apps for the apps that are on your phone.
By default, Apple Watch doesn't automatically capture all companion apps, That's right. Both the Series 1 as the series 2 of the clock only have 8 GB of internal storage, a good part of which is consumed by watchOS and the main applications. Although that space-conserving default is great at preventing you from getting into an app store and delete verification loop, Plus it means you might miss out on cool add-on apps you didn't even know were available.
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To that end, useful to cast space preservation to the wind and set your watch to automatically capture all available companion apps. After all, you did not buy a smart watch. solo for text message notifications on your wrist, truth? Plus you can make sure you get the best of everything it has to offer..
You can activate automatic app download simply by opening the Watch app on your iPhone. Please select “General” on the main screen to get started.
Inside the General menu, just activate the option “Automatic application installation”.
This will not only allow automatic installation of all future add-on applications, it will also retroactively install apps that you might have missed by manually installing them in the past; If you look at the list of apps on the main screen of the Watch app, as seen below, after enabling settings, you will see the missing apps installing on your Apple Watch.
That's all about it! From now on, you will never wonder if there is a companion app for your iPhone apps, since they will already be ready and waiting on your Apple Watch.
