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.
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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.
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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
It is the best app for what is required: separation alert. The features are endless and give us comfort we can customize as we wish. The two main issues for me: 1) having to restart it or make sure it’s active (you KNOW Murphy’s law will make it thag the one time you loose it was when the app wasn’t active) -> I think developer still working on that. 2) False alerts: there are still too many but I know it’s better to have a few false alerts than loosing phone. But yes the loud alarm, while awesome, is also startling and makes all my family/friends laugh. QUESTION FOR THE DEVELOPER: any tips on wifi on feature not working? Live in a looooong apartment, walk from one end to the other and alert goes off. But phone is on wifi - why wouldn’t it work?
Doesn’t work.
Snacks5567
Doesn’t work. Constantly looses pairing with watch so it can’t alert your phone. Garbage, useless product
Developer Response
Hey there, sorry to hear about your poor experience using Phone Buddy. Can you email support@fre-studios.com so we can review this case in more detail. we have a major update coming in a few months so we’d like to ensure these issues are addressed.
Exactly what I was looking for!
jcoles
This app works great. When I had a cellular plan on my Apple watch it would let me know it I left my phone behind. Since going non cellular with the watch, this replaces and greatly improves the functionality of separation alerts. 10/10.
Very buggy
Pigjake
Was hopeful with this app but…chews up battery life and…does not work well. Will be out for a walk and have my phone keeps saying that I’m away from my phone, even though it is less than 12 inches away from my watch and phone.
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
The developer, FRE STUDIOS LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
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.
