Is it possible to read or set preferences direct from a watch app?

I have a Settings.bundle for my app Roughly, which tells the approximate time in words (e.g. it's about quarter to six) in a complication. It supports a number of languages, but I allow people to use a different language to their own, to help them learn how to tell the time in another language.

The preference switch works fine in the Watch app on the iPhone, but if a user downloads the app direct from the App Store to their watch, there is no way for them to access those preferences. The preferences do not appear in the Watch app without the iOS app present on the iPhone.

Does anyone have a good solution to this? Do I have to offer a preferences switch in the app itself?

Replying to my own thread for anyone else in the same boat. A Watch complication’s access to app settings was deprecated in watchOS 6 and is now unreliable. (I had missed this.)

Is it possible to read or set preferences direct from a watch app?
 
 
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