Seemingly, from my initial testing, this behaviour has changed for the better in iOS 18 public beta
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Any Apple engineer able to reply?
hi!
does this mean manual device supervision using Apple Configurator will no longer be supported? Crazy if so…
Hello!
I’m having the exact same issue! Wondering if you ever got to the bottom of it?
The apps that are missing from my Watch are Walkie Talkie, Find My Items, Find My Friends, Messages, Alarm, Remote, Now Playing, Sleep, Meditation and Heart Rate. Even adding the following to the whitelist doesn’t work and I have no idea why: com.apple.findmy.findpeople, com.apple.findmy.finddevices, com.apple.HeartRate, com.apple.SessionTrackerApp, com.apple.NanoWorldClock, com.apple.findmy.finditems, com.apple.Mind, com.apple.NanoOxygenSaturation, com.apple.watchmemojieditor
com.apple.NanoSleep
com.apple.NanoNowPlaying
com.apple.noise
com.apple.tincan
com.apple.NanoRemote
com.apple.NanoAlarm
com.apple.private.NanoTimer
com.apple.NanoStopwatch
I’ve done some testing, but not sure what I’ve found really. I’ve so far identified 3 scenarios.
Scenario 1: I have the whitelist profile installed on the iPhone. I download an app that appears in the whitelist from my watch (or at least its iPhone version does). The apps show up on the iPhone automatically and can be launched there. These apps cannot be launched on the watch.
Scenario 2: I downloaded a few apps to my watch, that didn’t automatically install on my iPhone at the same time. They were on the whitelist. These ones couldn’t be launched from my Watch. I then downloaded them to the iPhone and they could be launched there (since they were on the whitelist).
Scenario 3: A couple of 3rd party apps on the whitelist could be downloaded and launched from the watch with the whitelist installed.
It seems as though there are different kinds of Apple Watch app and this is what I’ve read elsewhere.
First of all there are Watch-only apps, which do not automatically install a companion iPhone app. Secondly there are companion apps, which when installed from the Watch App Store download their companion app to the iPhone in the background.
So maybe the apps that when installed from Watch automatically install on iPhone and can only be launched from the iPhone have a separate bundle ID for their Watch app which I haven’t included?
Apps that are on the whitelist AND do not automatically install an iPhone app AND can be launched from the Watch, include:
solstice
What3words
So maybe these do not need a companion app, but have the same Bundle ID as their iPhone app?
I’m still not sure why many stock Apple Watch apps are missing from the Watch though….