We all know that the Apple Watch doesn’t exactly have great battery life. At best, it’ll get you through the day. But, of course, one of the big sells of the Apple Watch is that it’ll save your iPhone battery life, because you don’t have to pull it out as much.
Of course, then you end up in a Catch-22. Your Apple Watch depends on your iPhone to work properly, but without pulling out your iPhone, you can’t tell how much battery you have left, therefore risking both your Apple Watch and your iPhone crapping out on you in the middle of the day. If only the Apple Watch could tell you your iPhone’s battery level.
It can’t, but luckily, there’s an app for that. And it might be the loveliest one yet.
Developed by Thientam Beck (if you’re a jailbreaker, you might know him as Surenix), Power is a $0.99 app that allows you to quickly see your iPhone’s battery right on your Apple Watch. You don’t even have to load up the app: you can use the included glance instead. Either way, you’re just a look at your wrist away from seeing how much juice your iPhone’s down to.
It’s a totally simple app, but that’s all it needs to be. It’s clean, bright, and colorful, and will let you know whether or not you need to plug in your iPhone, without ever taking it out of your bag or pocket. What’s not to love?
There are similar apps to this on the App Store, natch, but this is the best designed one for my money. Check it out if you’re constantly running out of juice, and wonder to yourself why this isn’t a default part of WatchOS?
Source: App Store
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
10 responses to “A beautiful, elegant app to check your iPhone’s battery on your Apple Watch”
I got battery watch and while it’s not quite as pretty it’s free
This is a first world problem to the absolute extreme.
Hahaha… SO TRUE!
Meh. How lazy can someone be?
It IS already part of watchOS. There is a battery level complication, and a full blown battery glance, which also has a button to enter “power reserve” mode.
That shows the battery level of the Watch, not your iPhone.
Lol – duh of me – it was very late at night when I read it!
At least you admit it, unlike the ignorant people I keep encountering. Read on!
If people admitted when they got things wrong the world would be a better place ;) Next door neighbours were having a loud party into early hours and I was in that zone where brain wanted to sleep but couldn’t!
iOS 9 seems to have a widget on the iPhone which shows both iPhone and Watch battery, so I wonder whether we’ll get something like that on the watch too – still, 79p doesn’t exactly break the bank …
I’d say it’s certain we’ll get one for the Watch, but I don’t mind spending a dollar to support this guy. I already love the app!