Notifications
Every notification from your phone, on your watch. Reply, use quick replies, dismiss, or mute an app right from your wrist.
Apple Watch + Android
Your Apple Watch, now with your Android phone.
ConnectWear brings your phone's notifications, calls, texts, directions, alarms and music to your wrist, and sends your workouts and sleep back to Health Connect.
Coming soon to the App Store
See what it does
What you need: an Android phone (Android 8 or later) with the free ConnectWear app, and an Apple Watch (watchOS 10 or later). ConnectWear is for Android phone owners; it doesn't connect to an iPhone.
Now in beta testing. Join the Android beta.
Everything your phone does, on your wrist
Leave your phone in your pocket. ConnectWear keeps your watch and phone linked all day over Bluetooth.
Calls
Calls ring on your watch. Answer, decline or switch to speakerphone, and call anyone in your contacts.
Texts
Read your conversations, dictate a reply, or start a new text without reaching for your phone.
Turn-by-turn
Directions from your phone appear on your watch with a tap on the wrist before each turn. Pick a destination on the watch and the route starts on your phone.
Alarms
Your phone's alarms ring on your watch with Snooze and Stop. Set a new alarm from your wrist.
Media controls
See what's playing on your phone with cover art. Play, pause, skip, and turn the Digital Crown for volume.
Photos & files
Browse your phone's recent photos and the folders you share. Zoom into pictures and read documents and PDFs on your watch.
Media on watch
Copy music, podcasts, videos, photos and documents to your watch over Wi-Fi and enjoy them offline, with Bluetooth headphones.
Ask AI
Ask a question out loud and hear the answer. Works with Claude or Gemini, using your own API key.
Phone controls
From your watch's Control Center: flashlight, find my phone, sound mode, Do Not Disturb, and a camera shutter.
Health
Steps, heart rate, workouts and sleep from your watch, saved to Health Connect on your phone.
See it on your wrist
Real screens from the ConnectWear watch app.
Notifications
Read it, reply to it, done.
Every notification from your phone shows up on your watch. Reply by voice or with a quick reply, mark it as read, or dismiss it, and it clears on your phone too.
- Dictated replies
- Quick replies
- Per-app mute
Calls
Your phone rings on your wrist.
See who's calling and answer or decline from the watch. Switch to speakerphone, call back from your recents, or call anyone in your contacts.
- Answer and decline
- Speakerphone
- Recents and favorites
Turn-by-turn
Eyes on the road, not your phone.
Directions from your phone appear on your watch, with a tap on the wrist before each turn. Pick a saved place or say a destination on the watch and the route starts on your phone.
- A tap before each turn
- Saved places
- Say where to go
Now Playing
Control the music in your pocket.
See what's playing on your phone, with cover art. Play, pause and skip, and turn the Digital Crown for volume. Or copy music and podcasts to the watch and leave the phone at home.
- Cover art
- Crown volume
- Offline media
Alarms
Wake up to your watch.
Your phone's alarms ring on your wrist, with Snooze and Stop. Set a new alarm from the watch and it lands in your phone's clock app.
- Snooze and Stop
- Set alarms from the watch
Ask AI
Ask anything, hear the answer.
Raise your wrist and ask a question out loud. Claude or Gemini answers, with your own API key, and the watch reads the answer to you. Ask a follow-up any time.
- Claude or Gemini
- Read aloud
- Follow-ups
Photos & files
Your phone's storage, on your wrist.
Browse your phone's recent photos and videos, and zoom in with a double tap or the Digital Crown. Files opens the folders you share from your phone, folder by folder, or lists their documents, videos and audio by kind. Read text files and PDF pages right on the watch. You choose which folders: ConnectWear sees nothing else.
- Recent photos
- Shared folders
- PDFs and text
Media on watch
Leave your phone behind.
Pick a folder on your phone and tap Sync now. Its music, podcasts, videos, photos and documents copy to your watch over Wi-Fi or your phone's hotspot, subfolders and all. Then listen with Bluetooth headphones, watch videos, and read documents with no phone nearby.
- Music and podcasts
- Videos
- Photos
- Documents
- Up to 500 MB a file
Find your way around
Watch how to get around ConnectWear on your watch and your phone. The dot shows where to tap. Pause any time, or pick a step.
Reply to a text
Start a route
Phone photos & offline media
Set up the phone app
Health
Your workouts, where your phone can see them.
ConnectWear sends the steps, heart rate, workouts and sleep your watch records to Health Connect on your phone, so the fitness apps you use there can show them. Workouts come with calories and distance, and nights are grouped into sleep sessions.
- Steps
- Heart rate
- Workouts
- Sleep
The phone app
Set up once, on your Android phone.
The ConnectWear companion app keeps the link to your watch running in the background. Each card turns on one part of ConnectWear, so you choose exactly what reaches your wrist.
- The link. One switch connects your phone to your watch over Bluetooth, with a light that shows when they're connected.
- Notifications. Turn on mirroring and mute any app you don't want on your wrist.
- Calls & texts, Maps, Photos & files. Allow each one when you want it. For photos and files you pick the folders, such as your camera folder.
- Quick replies and places. Write your one-tap replies and save the places you go, right on the phone.
How it works
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Install the phone app
The ConnectWear companion app runs on your Android phone and asks for the access each feature needs. You choose which ones to turn on.
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Install the watch app
Get ConnectWear for Apple Watch from the App Store.
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Link them
The watch and phone connect over Bluetooth. When the watch app is asleep, alerts still arrive as push notifications.
Join the Android beta
The ConnectWear phone app is coming to Google Play. Help test it first: all you need is an Android phone (Android 8 or later). With an Apple Watch you can try everything. Email us the Google account you use on your phone, and we'll send you the link to join the test on Google Play.
Join the beta by emailWe use your email only to add you to the test and to send you news about it.
Your data stays on your devices
Your notifications, messages, contacts, photos and health data go straight from your phone to your watch. Alerts for a sleeping watch, and your taps and replies when Bluetooth is down, pass through ConnectWear's push server encrypted, so only your own watch and phone can read them. No accounts, no analytics.
Questions
What do I need?
An Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later and an Android phone with Android 8.0 or later. The Control Center controls need watchOS 26.
Does it work with an iPhone?
No. ConnectWear connects your Apple Watch to an Android phone. If you use an iPhone, your Apple Watch already does all of this with it, and you don't need ConnectWear.
Do I still need an iPhone?
Apple Watch has to be set up with an iPhone, and apps install through it. After that, ConnectWear talks to your Android phone directly over Bluetooth, and the iPhone can stay at home.
Does it work when my phone is in my pocket?
Yes. The watch and phone stay linked over Bluetooth as long as they're in range, like a regular watch and phone.
How does Media on watch work?
Pick a folder on your phone and tap Sync now. The files copy to your watch over your local Wi-Fi or your phone's hotspot, then play offline. Videos are converted on the phone to fit the watch.
Which health data is shared?
Steps, heart rate, workouts and sleep recorded by your watch are written to Health Connect on your phone, so apps that read Health Connect can show them.
Does Ask AI cost anything?
Ask AI uses your own Claude (Anthropic) or Gemini (Google) API key, so any usage is billed by that provider to your account. Your questions go straight from your phone to the provider you choose.