The 10 Best iPhone Apps For Apple Watch In 2020 (Updated)
The Apple Watch is one of the best devices Apple makes. It’s also a boon for anyone who is into fitness and health tracking. However, the Apple Watch is also very useful for other, non-health-related tasks.
Some of the best things to use the Apple Watch for are for processes you’d usually need to whip your phone out of your pocket for–and perhaps on a busy street or in a busy bar, where it could be nicked.
But if you have the right Apple Watch app, you can quickly carry out the task you want right from your wrist, without putting your iPhone at risk. With that in mind, here are the 10 best iPhone apps for Apple Watch in 2020.
Citymapper
- The iPhone app’s official description: The ultimate transit app: instantly compare all travel options in real-time across all transport modes! Find alternative (more socially distanced) routes to safely navigate your city. Let our revamped GO assistant guide you turn-by-turn on all your transportation, walking, cycling, and scooter trips so you can enjoy the ride.
- What it does: One of the best Apple Watch uses is for navigation. Powerful transportation app Citymapper’s Apple Watch app just made it easier to see stops on your route–all from your wrist!
- How to get it: iOS
Uber
- The iPhone app’s official description: Request a ride with Uber, rent JUMP bikes or scooters, and get there with ease. With Uber, your destination is at your fingertips. Just open the app and enter where you want to go, and a nearby driver will help you get there reliably. You can also rent JUMP bikes and scooters.
- What it does: Uber’s Apple Watch app lets you request a ride right from your wrist. It also shows you when your driver is en route on a map, and more!
- How to get it: iOS
Microsoft Translator
- The iPhone app’s official description: Microsoft Translator is a free, personal translation app for 60+ languages, to translate text, voice, conversations, camera photos and screenshots. You can even download languages for offline translation for free to use when you travel!
- What it does: Microsoft Translator is an app that really helps the Apple Watch shine. Whenever you’re in a country where you don’t speak the language, you can usually get by by whipping out your iPhone and opening a translator app. However, you want to be careful in crowded cities where pickpockets frequent. With the Microsoft Translator Apple Watch app, you no longer have to worry about that and can just translate words and phrases from your wrist!
- How to get it: iOS
Dark Sky Weather
- The iPhone app’s official description: Dark Sky is the most accurate source of hyperlocal weather information. With down-to-the-minute forecasts, you’ll know exactly when the rain will start or stop, right where you’re standing. (It’s like magic.)
- What it does: Hand’s down, Dark Sky Weather is the best weather app out there. It’s so good, it was bought by Apple in 2020. Naturally, the app offers an Apple Watch app. It lets you get current conditions, notifications, allows you to check out the weather for the next week.
- How to get it: iOS
Shazam
- The iPhone app’s official description: Shazam will identify any song in seconds. Discover artists, lyrics, videos & playlists, all for free. Over 1 billion installs and counting!
- What it does: Another Apple-owned app, Shazam is perfect on your wrist. Now when you’re in a bar or club and hear a hot song, you no longer have to pull your iPhone out of your pocket. Just tap the Shazam button on your Apple Watch and you’ll instantly know what tune is playing.
- How to get it: iOS
Google Maps
- The iPhone app’s official description: Navigate your world faster and easier with Google Maps. Over 220 countries and territories mapped and hundreds of millions of businesses and places on the map. Get real-time GPS navigation, traffic, and transit info, and find what you need by getting the latest information on businesses, including grocery stores, pharmacies and other important places.
- What it does: Brings step-by-step Google Maps directions to your Apple Watch.
- How to get it: iOS
Watchsmith
- The iPhone app’s official description: Watchsmith lets you personalize your Apple Watch like never before. It starts with a wide collection of highly customizable complications, which range in function from date, to weather, to astronomy. Each can be adjusted precisely to best fit your desired function and appearance. This set of complications can then be dynamically scheduled to appear on your watch face following rules you define. For example, a particular complication slot could show the weather first thing in the morning, then your calendar during your work day, then switch to your Activity ring progress as you wrap up your day. This lets you take full advantage of each slot on your watch face without the need to constantly switch back and forth between faces.
- What it does: This amazing app lets you build and design your own Apple Watch complications.
- How to get it: iOS
Starbucks
- The iPhone app’s official description: The Starbucks app is a convenient way to order ahead for pickup or scan and pay in store . Rewards are built right in, so you’ll earn Stars toward Rewards with every purchase.
- What it does: Pay for your drinks and manage your Starbucks reward points all from your wrist!
- How to get it: iOS
Pandora
- The iPhone app’s official description: Create stations from your favorite songs, artists or genres, search or browse to find recommended stations for your mood or activity, and discover podcasts that speak to you. Download today and get instant access to your favorite artists and podcasts, while staying up to date on the most recent singles and releases. From rap and pop to rock and country, play your favorite artists and stay up to date on today’s top hits and releases. Start streaming all of the current global hits and enjoy your own personalized music experience.
- What it does: Puts Pandora streaming controls right on your wrist. No more needing to take out your iPhone to navigate your Pandora tunes.
- How to get it: iOS
Spotify
- The iPhone app’s official description: With Spotify, you can play millions of songs for free. Listen to the songs you love and enjoy music from all over the world.
- What it does: This app lets you navigate and manage your Spotify music and podcasts from the Apple Watch.
- How to get it: iOS
Michael Grothaus
Apple expert and novelist, Michael Grothaus has been covering tech on KnowYourMobile for the best part of 10 years. Prior to this, he worked at Apple. And before that, he was a film journalist. Michael is a published author; his book Epiphany Jones was voted as one of the best novels about Hollywood by Entertainment Weekly. Michael is also a writer at other publications including VICE and Fast Company.Comments are closed.