Check if iPhone is paired with apple watch?

Question

In my app,

I need to find if my phone is paired with a apple watch and get some information about the paired watch like its name. I tried reading the documentation but I couldn't seem to find any thing specific to my use case.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

So since WatchOS 2 that is possible !

You have to do on iPhone side :

First :

import WatchConnectivity

Then :

   if WCSession.isSupported() { // check if the device support to handle an Apple Watch
        let session = WCSession.default()
        session.delegate = self
        session.activate() // activate the session

        if session.isPaired { // Check if the iPhone is paired with the Apple Watch
                // Do stuff
        }
    }

I hope It would help you :)

Answer 2

The best you can do is write to a shared NSUserDefaults value the first time the user opens your WK app, then check for that value in your iOS app. Beyond that there's no info you can get.