Keep your watch. Switch your phone.
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What reaches your wrist
Every alert, with its app icon
Messages, mail, calendar and the rest. Switch off any app you don’t want on your wrist.
Reply from the watch
Answer chats from apps that offer a reply, with dictation, scribble or quick replies.
Decline calls
Phone and WhatsApp calls show on your wrist. Decline them without reaching for your pocket.
Find my phone
One tap on the watch plays a melody on your phone at full volume, even on silent.
Find my watch
Your phone makes the watch buzz and chime six times, five seconds apart.
Quiet phone
Only the watch buzzes while it’s linked. Your phone stays silent on the table.
Alerts from your iPhone apps
Messages, mail, calendar and the rest arrive on your watch as they reach the iPhone.
Answer or decline calls
Incoming calls show on your wrist with the actions your iPhone offers.
Find my phone
Planned with a small companion app on the iPhone.
No cloud in between
Alerts go straight from the iPhone to the watch over Bluetooth. They never pass through our servers.
Good to know. Your watch needs Wi-Fi or cellular, the way it does when the iPhone is far away. In Low Power Mode the watch turns those off, and alerts pause until it’s back to normal.
Good to know. This direction works over Bluetooth, so the watch must be within about 10 meters of the iPhone. Typed replies aren’t possible, because iPhone only shares an alert’s built-in actions. A Wear OS watch needs an Android phone once for its first setup.
Set up in a few minutes
Install both apps
KeepMyWatch on the Android phone, and on the watch from its own App Store.
Scan the code
The watch shows a code. The phone scans it, and the two share a key no one else has.
Allow alerts
Android asks once to let KeepMyWatch read your notifications. Then they start arriving.
Install on the watch
KeepMyWatch from Google Play on your Wear OS watch.
Pair with the iPhone
The watch finds your iPhone over Bluetooth. Accept the pairing request on the iPhone.
Allow notifications
iPhone asks once whether to share notifications with the watch. Choose Allow.
Private by design
Each alert is locked on your phone with a key that only your watch holds (AES-256-GCM, the standard used for banking). Our relay passes along data it can’t read, and keeps an alert your watch missed for one hour at most. We keep no copy of what your alerts say.
Alerts travel straight from your iPhone to your watch over an encrypted Bluetooth link. They never reach our servers, so there is nothing for us to keep.
What you need
| Watch | Apple Watch Series 4 or later with watchOS 10 or later, set up with an iPhone |
|---|---|
| Connection | Wi-Fi or cellular on the watch |
| Phone | Android 13 or later |
| Your old iPhone | Can stay in a drawer. In our tests alerts kept arriving with it switched off. |
| Watch | A Wear OS watch, such as Galaxy Watch or Pixel Watch |
|---|---|
| First setup | An Android phone, once, to activate the watch |
| Phone | iPhone with Bluetooth on |
| Range | About 10 meters between watch and iPhone |
One price, once
Hear when it’s ready
One email when your direction launches. Nothing else.
Questions
Is this made by Apple or Google?
No. KeepMyWatch is an independent app. It uses the tools Apple and Google give every developer.
Do I need to keep my iPhone?
Your watch stays set up from the iPhone you used before. After the switch, the iPhone can stay switched off. To set up a new watch, you’ll need an iPhone again.
Why does my watch need Wi-Fi or cellular?
Alerts come from your Android phone through the internet, so the watch must be online. A cellular watch works anywhere; a Wi-Fi watch works on networks it already knows.
Why can’t I type replies?
iPhone shares alerts with watches through a Bluetooth service that offers each alert’s built-in actions, such as accept or decline. It doesn’t allow typed replies for other makers’ watches.
Do I need to keep an Android phone?
Only for the first setup of the watch. After that, the watch works with your iPhone alone.
What happens to my data?
Your alerts are never stored where we can read them. The app keeps a short list of recent alert titles on your own device so you can see what was sent.