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Wayne
Wayne

Reputation: 3519

How to launch an associated watch app from an IOS application

How do I launch an associated Watch App from an IOS App?

I do see questions where the user flow is in reverse, where the Watch App starts the IOS App in the background. However I want the reverse. I want to launch the Watch App, make it visible on the watch when the associated IOS App is running.

My current user experience is not good; I launch the IOS App from the Phone, then fiddle with the watch to find the associated Watch App.

The current IOS App plays music at times, and I have added the Now Playing View. I have also noticed that when I start the watch application "not programatically", some minutes later (after the watch goes to sleep and raised again to awake) the default music player Watch App is made the current watch application when playing music via the IOS App.

I would have preferred that the associated watch application is active on the watch, and that the Now Playing View controls the music.

The watch application has two views/pages where the user would swipe to move to the next page. The first page has some text and the second page has the Now Playing View

It would be far better, if the users starts the IOS App and auto launches the associated Watch App.

I am not sure what the design decisions are regarding this. Perhaps a Notification needs to be sent, and the user can then decide whether to launch the Watch App.

Please assist by giving brief API calls to make or adjusting properties in the plist.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1927

Answers (1)

ARMatt
ARMatt

Reputation: 89

You can do so by sending a workout configuration to your watch app via startWatchAppWithWorkoutConfiguration

I'm not sure it would get past the App Review for non workout apps. You might have to call this method twice to reliably start the app, due to a timeout: forum discussion

Upvotes: 3

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