Privacy Policy · ConnectWear

In short: ConnectWear moves your phone's information to your watch and back. There's no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking, and we never see your data. Alerts for a sleeping watch, and what you tap on the watch (call and alarm buttons, replies, texts you send) when Bluetooth is down, go through ConnectWear's push server encrypted, so only your watch and phone can read them. A few features need an outside service (Apple's push notifications, the AI provider you choose, place search on your phone), and those are listed below.

ConnectWear is made up of an Apple Watch app (with a small iPhone app that only installs it) and a companion app for Android phones. This policy covers both, and explains what information they handle, where it goes, and why.

What stays on your devices

The watch and phone talk to each other directly over Bluetooth, and for Media on watch, over your local Wi-Fi or your phone's hotspot. The following information travels only between your own watch and phone and is stored only on them:

Notifications: the app name, icon, title, text and buttons of your phone's notifications, so you can read and act on them on the watch.
Calls and texts: the caller's number and contact name, your recent calls, favorites and text conversations (SMS, and the chat messages your messaging app saves on the phone, such as RCS), and the replies or new texts you send from the watch.
Contacts: names, numbers and addresses, so you can call, text or get directions to someone from the watch.
Photos, videos, music and documents: only from folders you pick on the phone: your camera folder for Photos, the folders you share for Files, and the folder you choose to sync for Media on watch.
Now Playing: the song or show playing on your phone and its cover art.
Directions: turn-by-turn instructions from your navigation app, and the saved places and recent destinations you keep in ConnectWear.
Alarms: the ringing alarm and the alarms you set from the watch.
Calendar: your upcoming events (title, time, place, notes and which calendar) for today and the next 7 days, from the calendars on your phone, and the events you add from the watch, which your phone saves to the calendar you choose.
Health data: steps, heart rate, workouts and sleep recorded by your watch (see Health data below).
Settings and logs: your quick replies, muted apps, Home layout and a diagnostic log, kept on each device. Logs are never sent anywhere unless you choose to share them with us for support.

What leaves your devices

Some features can't work without an outside service. Each one gets only what it needs, sent directly from your phone or watch. The exceptions are alerts for a sleeping watch and what you tap on the watch: they pass through ConnectWear's push server, encrypted so that only your own watch and phone can read them.

Service	What's sent	When
ConnectWear's push server, then Apple Push Notification service	An encrypted alert that only your watch can open: the notification's app, title and text, a caller's name or number, a turn instruction, an alarm, or your newest text and call (who, when, and the text) for the watch's Messages and Calls stay inside it, locked with a key your watch gave your phone over Bluetooth. Also your watch app's push address, a random ID for your phone app (used only to limit how many alerts one phone can send) and the kind of alert (for example a call or an alarm, so the right buttons show). The server and Apple see only "New notification", not the content. The server keeps no copy and no logs.	When the watch app is asleep and doesn't confirm a message over Bluetooth within 2 seconds, and for ringing calls and alarms, so the alert still reaches your wrist. Your newest text and call go this way only while your watch is out of Bluetooth range, when a text arrives or a call ends.
ConnectWear's push server (watch buttons, replies, texts and pictures)	When you tap a button on the watch for a call (Answer, Decline, End, Speaker), an alarm (Snooze, Stop) or a notification (Reply, Mark as read, Dismiss, Clear all), or send a text or place a call from the watch: which button, the reply you wrote, the text and the number it goes to, an ID for that call, alarm or notification and the time, encrypted with the same key your watch gave your phone, so only your phone can read it. It's addressed by a code made from that key, not by anything that identifies you. The server holds it in memory until your phone picks it up (at most 2 minutes), then deletes it. Nothing is logged or written to disk. The same way back: a picture from a text message that you open on the watch while it's out of Bluetooth range goes from your phone to the server, encrypted so only your watch can open it, and is deleted as soon as the watch collects it (at most 2 minutes).	Each time you tap one of those buttons, sent alongside Bluetooth so it still works when Bluetooth isn't getting through. Your phone checks for these only while a call or alarm is ringing or in progress, for a few minutes after it had to reach your watch through Apple's push notifications, and for up to 30 minutes after your watch leaves Bluetooth range.
Anthropic (Claude) or Google (Gemini)	The questions you ask in Ask AI and the conversation so far, with your own API key.	Only when you use Ask AI, and only to the provider you choose. Their privacy policies apply to what they receive.
Your phone's place search (Android Geocoder)	The place name you say, and your watch's approximate location (the area around it and your city), to find nearby results. Your watch shares its location with your phone only with a search, and only if you allow location for ConnectWear on the watch.	When you search for a destination in Maps on the watch.
Your navigation app	The destination you pick.	When you start a route from the watch, ConnectWear opens your phone's navigation app (such as Google Maps) to that destination. That app's privacy policy applies.
Apple dictation	What you dictate on the watch.	When you dictate a reply, a text, a place or a question. Handled by watchOS under Apple's privacy policy.

When you reply to a message or send a text from the watch, your phone sends it the same way it would if you had typed it on the phone.

Health data

With your permission, the watch app reads the steps, heart rate, workouts and sleep that your watch records from Apple Health (HealthKit), and sends them over Bluetooth to your phone, which saves them to Health Connect. Data your iPhone recorded is left out, so nothing is counted twice.

During a route started from the watch, ConnectWear runs a workout session to keep the app on screen. That session is never saved to Apple Health.

Health data is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold, never shared with anyone else, and never stored anywhere but your watch, your phone and Health Connect. Once it's in Health Connect, the apps you allow there can read it.

Permissions, and why they're needed

You can turn each of these on or off in your phone's or watch's settings. A feature whose permission is off simply won't work; everything else keeps working.

Android phone

Notification access: to show your notifications on the watch and run their buttons (reply, mark as read, dismiss).
Accessibility service ("ConnectWear watch controls"): only when you ask from the watch, to press the camera's shutter, to open a route past the lock screen, and to press buttons on the alarm and call screens (such as Snooze or Speaker). It reads only those screens, at that moment, to find the one button it needs, and doesn't store or send anything it reads. The app explains this and asks you to agree before you turn it on.
Phone and call log: to ring calls on the watch, answer or decline them, place calls, and show your recent calls.
SMS: to show your text conversations (including chat messages your messaging app saves on the phone, such as RCS) and send the texts you write on the watch.
Contacts: to show names instead of numbers, and to call, text or get directions to your contacts.
Calendar: to show your upcoming events on the watch and save the events you add from it.
Folders you pick: the phone app has no photo, storage or location permission. It reads only the folders you choose in Android's folder picker (your camera folder for Photos, the folders you share for Files, and your Media on watch folder). You can stop sharing them in the app at any time.
Health Connect: to save your watch's steps, heart rate, workouts, calories, distance and sleep.
Bluetooth and nearby devices: to connect to your watch.
Do Not Disturb access and audio settings: to change your phone's sound mode and Do Not Disturb from the watch.
Alarms and notifications: to set alarms from the watch, and to show the phone app's own status notification.

Apple Watch

Bluetooth: to connect to your phone.
Notifications: to alert you when the app is asleep.
Health: to read the data described above, and to run the unsaved workout session during a route.
Local network: to download Media on watch files from your phone over Wi-Fi.
Location (while using the app): sent to your phone with a place search in Maps, so results are near you. Not used at any other time.

API keys

If you use Ask AI, your Anthropic or Google API key is stored in the phone app's private storage and sent only to that provider. You can remove it at any time in the phone app.

What we don't do

We don't run servers that can read your data, and we don't have accounts. Our push server only passes along alerts, buttons, replies and texts that are encrypted between your watch and phone, and keeps nothing.
We don't use analytics, crash reporting services, advertising or tracking of any kind.
We don't sell or share your information.

Deleting your data

Everything ConnectWear stores is on your devices. Deleting the watch app removes its data from the watch; uninstalling the phone app removes its data from the phone. Health records it saved stay in Health Connect until you delete them there.

If you email us

When you email us for support or to join the Android beta, we use your email address and what you write only to answer you, add you to the test and tell you about it. To give you access to the beta, we add your Google account's email address to the test's tester list on Google Play. We don't share it with anyone else, and we'll delete it if you ask.

Children

ConnectWear isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone, children included.

Changes to this policy

If ConnectWear changes how it handles your information, we'll update this page and the date at the top before that version of the app is released.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email connectwearapp@gmail.com.