Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert

Name: Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert
Price: 4.99 USD
Rating: 4.2 (521 reviews)
Author: FRE STUDIOS LLC

Don't Forget Phone BT Notifier

$4.99

521 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

#38
Productivity
Developer

FRE STUDIOS LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

34
MB

Don’t forget your iPhone again by using Phone Buddy on Apple Watch! Use Phone Lost Alert and Distance Going Away Alert to track devices and never lose your iPhone again! Macworld’s 2020 “Must-Have apps for your new Apple Watch” Phone Buddy Notifier is an Apple Watch app that alerts you when you lose bluetooth connection with your iPhone. “All we want is the ability to get alerts on our Apple Watch when we leave our iPhone behind.” -Macworld Step away from your iPhone and Phone Buddy notifies your Apple Watch the moment bluetooth connection is lost with your iPhone. It’s that easy. This app is for the forgetful ones! If you’ve ever forgotten your iPhone, Phone Buddy Lost Phone Alert is the answer. Don’t forget your iPhone again using Lost Phone Alert. Phone Buddy Alerts can be configured to display when your iPhone connection is lost, when you leave your Apple Watch behind, or when devices move apart with Distance Going Away Alerts! And for extra protection, you can enable the Lost Alert Loud Alarm to ensure you never miss a Lost Phone or Watch Left Behind notification. If someone takes your iPhone, Phone Buddy will alert you with a Lost Phone Alert right on your Apple Watch. Lost Phone Alert is better than phone insurance since it helps prevent a loss! Use Lost Phone Alert now and never lose your phone again! Misplacing your iPhone is a thing of the past, find your iPhone easily using your Apple Watch with Signal Strength Monitor and Play Ring. Misplace your Apple Watch? Phone Buddy has your back; you can trigger a sound to play on your watch from your iPhone using the Play Sound on Apple Watch feature and follow the sound to locate your watch. ========================== Phone Buddy is compatible with the following Bluetooth LE enabled Apple Watch models running WatchOS 6 or later: Apple Watch Series 2 - Series 9, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Ultra - Ultra 2. Privacy Policy: https://phonebuddy.app Terms of Service: https://phonebuddy.app Jason Cross. “10 must-have apps for your new Apple Watch: Take your little wrist computer to the next level with these great apps.” Macworld (2020): Web (https://www.macworld.com/article/3328398/10-must-have-apps-for-your-new-apple-watch.html). NOV 25, 2020

Ratings & Reviews

4.2

out of 5

521 Ratings

Saved my phone a few times
01/29/2022
GaryManchello
So I often leave my phone behind all over the place and was looking for an app that would notify my Apple Watch when this happened (Apple’s built in one takes really long distance to let you know, like a few blocks). I bought this app even though some reviews were mixed and I’m happy I did. For me Phone Lost Alert works very well letting me know my phone is lost basically when I’m crossing the street in front of my house. This is great.I also enabled the distance alert setting with Wi-Fi Safe Zone enabled - this is the key to this setting, make sure you enable Wi-Fi safe zone and this alert works much better. I’ve had a couple moments outside of my house where the distance alert popped up as I was leaving my phone in m car, I had walked like 20 feet away. That was real cool! The app does have a bunch of configurations and can be a bit confusing but honestly I’m super impressed and I found what works really well for me (shared above!).
Saved my phone a few times
01/29/2022
GaryManchello

So I often leave my phone behind all over the place and was looking for an app that would notify my Apple Watch when this happened (Apple’s built in one takes really long distance to let you know, like a few blocks). I bought this app even though some reviews were mixed and I’m happy I did. For me Phone Lost Alert works very well letting me know my phone is lost basically when I’m crossing the street in front of my house. This is great.I also enabled the distance alert setting with Wi-Fi Safe Zone enabled - this is the key to this setting, make sure you enable Wi-Fi safe zone and this alert works much better. I’ve had a couple moments outside of my house where the distance alert popped up as I was leaving my phone in m car, I had walked like 20 feet away. That was real cool! The app does have a bunch of configurations and can be a bit confusing but honestly I’m super impressed and I found what works really well for me (shared above!).
Finally a app, that is doing what you want and then going above and beyond your expectations.
11/30/2023
Snuffy4165
I’ve tried every app and wrote reviews, suggestions, and over paid for everything that’s come along to protect my watch and my iphone. This app is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ANDS GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND MY EXPECTATIONS. IT’S A MUST HAVE. IT’S THE ONLY APP I WOULD MAKE SURE IS on MY PHONE AND MY WATCH. FINALLY YOU CAN PROTECT YOU’RE INVESTMENT. I LOSE MY PHONE SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR. You can imagine how happy that makes my wife, HAVING TO buy new phones all the time and watches AS WELL THE LAST FEW YEARS. This should eliminate everything if i use it right. I am a disabled very. I had a T. B. I. It affects my memory, motor skills and’ I’m naturally clumsy and forgetful anyhow, so sometimes my life is frustrating to say the least. Well, the older i get the worse my dropping things, & leaving things behind gets. This is a gift from the app god to me!! Thank you so much. You really out did yourself. !!!
Finally a app, that is doing what you want and then going above and beyond your expectations.
11/30/2023
Snuffy4165

I’ve tried every app and wrote reviews, suggestions, and over paid for everything that’s come along to protect my watch and my iphone. This app is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ANDS GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND MY EXPECTATIONS. IT’S A MUST HAVE. IT’S THE ONLY APP I WOULD MAKE SURE IS on MY PHONE AND MY WATCH. FINALLY YOU CAN PROTECT YOU’RE INVESTMENT. I LOSE MY PHONE SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR. You can imagine how happy that makes my wife, HAVING TO buy new phones all the time and watches AS WELL THE LAST FEW YEARS. This should eliminate everything if i use it right. I am a disabled very. I had a T. B. I. It affects my memory, motor skills and’ I’m naturally clumsy and forgetful anyhow, so sometimes my life is frustrating to say the least. Well, the older i get the worse my dropping things, & leaving things behind gets. This is a gift from the app god to me!! Thank you so much. You really out did yourself. !!!
So far, so good
06/26/2023
MKB58
I am always leaving my phone behind either in the car dashboard phone caddy, or in the garage or barn when I take the phone out of my pocket while i am crawling around working on a vehicle or some other project and then when I reach for my phone and realize it is gone, I have to go back and fetch it. This has really helped. When my phone has rebooted at night because it has downloaded an update, Phone Buddy has prompted me first thing the next morning to reestablish the connection. Plus when I am clearing brush or doing yard work, I often take of my watch because it collects dirt and junk under the band, and Phone Buddy has an option to let me know when I have left my watch behind too. I am very satisfied.
So far, so good
06/26/2023
MKB58

I am always leaving my phone behind either in the car dashboard phone caddy, or in the garage or barn when I take the phone out of my pocket while i am crawling around working on a vehicle or some other project and then when I reach for my phone and realize it is gone, I have to go back and fetch it. This has really helped. When my phone has rebooted at night because it has downloaded an update, Phone Buddy has prompted me first thing the next morning to reestablish the connection. Plus when I am clearing brush or doing yard work, I often take of my watch because it collects dirt and junk under the band, and Phone Buddy has an option to let me know when I have left my watch behind too. I am very satisfied.
Was good, now it’s AWFUL!
11/21/2021
RawDawgRagland
I’ve had this app for several version of the iPhone and Apple Watch and the first iterations of this app worked fine, without false alarms but after recently updating this app and being pleasantly surprised by all the great additions to the functionality of this app I was impressed. THAT WAS SHORT LIVED. This app is horrendous with false alarms, no matter how much I tinker with the distance and time setting it’s constantly going off. With me working in the medical field with patient care, it’s very rude and startling to patients and family members having loud and obnoxious fire alarm sounding alerts randomly blaring out of your phone and watch, even when both your phone and watch are on your person. I’ve even went as far as completely shutting down the application when I need it the most but the application is still making my phone alarm randomly. I’m super disappointed in this application now and I feel I have no choice but to remove it completely from my phone.

Developer Response
Hello RawDawgRagland, I'm very sorry to learn about your experience using Phone Buddy. There are settings I'd recommend that may mediate some of the issues, for example, you can disable the "Loud Alarm" setting so Phone Buddy uses default notification sounds or vibration when posting alerts. We have also updated a few advanced settings that may help reduce false alerts due to temporary interruptions, such as the Sure Alert setting on the Phone Lost Alert custom settings page on Apple Watch. By the way, Bluetooth shares a spectrum with many wireless devices and as such environmental interference makes 100% accuracy difficult. If you've introduced a new wireless device in home or car and that correlates with the decreasing quality of service please let me know. We are happy to chat further at support@fre-studios.com.
Was good, now it’s AWFUL!
11/21/2021
RawDawgRagland

I’ve had this app for several version of the iPhone and Apple Watch and the first iterations of this app worked fine, without false alarms but after recently updating this app and being pleasantly surprised by all the great additions to the functionality of this app I was impressed. THAT WAS SHORT LIVED. This app is horrendous with false alarms, no matter how much I tinker with the distance and time setting it’s constantly going off. With me working in the medical field with patient care, it’s very rude and startling to patients and family members having loud and obnoxious fire alarm sounding alerts randomly blaring out of your phone and watch, even when both your phone and watch are on your person. I’ve even went as far as completely shutting down the application when I need it the most but the application is still making my phone alarm randomly. I’m super disappointed in this application now and I feel I have no choice but to remove it completely from my phone.
Developer Response 11/24/2021
Hello RawDawgRagland, I'm very sorry to learn about your experience using Phone Buddy. There are settings I'd recommend that may mediate some of the issues, for example, you can disable the "Loud Alarm" setting so Phone Buddy uses default notification sounds or vibration when posting alerts. We have also updated a few advanced settings that may help reduce false alerts due to temporary interruptions, such as the Sure Alert setting on the Phone Lost Alert custom settings page on Apple Watch. By the way, Bluetooth shares a spectrum with many wireless devices and as such environmental interference makes 100% accuracy difficult. If you've introduced a new wireless device in home or car and that correlates with the decreasing quality of service please let me know. We are happy to chat further at support@fre-studios.com.

Phone Buddy 7.9.0 is our biggest update yet. The app has been rebuilt from the inside out over the past several months, and this release brings that new foundation to your iPhone and Apple Watch, along with support for watchOS 27 and iPhone Duo. WATCHOS 27 Phone Buddy is now fully compatible with watchOS 27. The watch face complication has been rebuilt on WidgetKit so it keeps showing your Phone Lost Alert status on the latest watchOS. Your existing complication slots move over automatically. NEW BLUETOOTH ENGINE The connection between your iPhone and Apple Watch runs on a brand-new engine. Phone Buddy now remembers your watch and the state of your alerts between launches, so reopening the app while your watch is out of range no longer turns your alerts off or shows a connection error. The app simply waits for your watch to return and lets you know when it is found. IPHONE DUO Phone Buddy supports iPhone Duo on both screens, folded and open, and adapts live when you fold or unfold the phone. Content stays clear of the floating tab bar and system controls, and the guides and setup videos fit the open screen comfortably. SWIFT 6 AND MODERN CONCURRENCY This one is invisible to you, but developers will know the effort it takes to bring a large legacy codebase, full of stacked completion blocks, into modern concurrency. Phone Buddy now builds in Swift 6 language mode with strict concurrency checking on every target. About 35,000 lines of Swift written the 2020 way, where every controller was its own framework delegate, with one global app controller was reached from countless call sites, and many flavors of (Bool, String?) completion handler stood in for errors, has now been rebuilt around a shared core package: five actors, nonisolated bridges that turn framework delegates into typed AsyncStreams, a composition root on each platform, and a typed wire between iPhone and Watch in place of string-keyed dictionaries. Every piece of mutable state now lives inside an actor or a Mutex, so the bug that used to surface as "flaky Bluetooth" or a "phantom alert" is a compile error today. Our first attempt compiled clean and crashed on launch. The real one took many weeks, one controller at a time. Final tally: zero @preconcurrency, zero nonisolated(unsafe), zero Timer.scheduledTimer, and a satisfying amount of deleted code. This update also includes general stability and performance improvements. Thanks again for using Phone Buddy! If you like our app please consider writing a review, it really helps :). Any questions or comments? Email: feedback@fre-studios.com

Version 7.9.0 1d ago

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Seller: FRE STUDIOS LLC
Size: 34 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.1 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 18.1 or later.

Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.1 or later.
Location: This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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