Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert
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Description
Macworld’s 2020 “Must-Have apps for your new Apple Watch” Phone Buddy Notifier is an Apple Watch app that alerts you when you lose bluetooth connection with your iPhone. “All we want is the ability to get alerts on our Apple Watch when we leave our iPhone behind.” -Macworld Step away from your iPhone and Phone Buddy notifies your Apple Watch the moment bluetooth connection is lost with your iPhone. It’s that easy. This app is for the forgetful ones! If you’ve ever forgotten your iPhone, Phone Buddy Lost Phone Alert is the answer. Don’t forget your iPhone again using Lost Phone Alert. Phone Buddy Alerts can be configured to display when your iPhone connection is lost, when you leave your Apple Watch behind, or when devices move apart with Distance Going Away Alerts! And for extra protection, you can enable the Lost Alert Loud Alarm to ensure you never miss a Lost Phone or Watch Left Behind notification. If someone takes your iPhone, Phone Buddy will alert you with a Lost Phone Alert right on your Apple Watch. Lost Phone Alert is better than phone insurance since it helps prevent a loss! Use Lost Phone Alert now and never lose your phone again! Misplacing your iPhone is a thing of the past, find your iPhone easily using your Apple Watch with Signal Strength Monitor and Play Ring. Misplace your Apple Watch? Phone Buddy has your back; you can trigger a sound to play on your watch from your iPhone using the Play Sound on Apple Watch feature and follow the sound to locate your watch. ========================== Phone Buddy is compatible with the following Bluetooth LE enabled Apple Watch models running WatchOS 6 or later: Apple Watch Series 2 - Series 9, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Ultra - Ultra 2. Privacy Policy: https://phonebuddy.app Terms of Service: https://phonebuddy.app Jason Cross. “10 must-have apps for your new Apple Watch: Take your little wrist computer to the next level with these great apps.” Macworld (2020): Web (https://www.macworld.com/article/3328398/10-must-have-apps-for-your-new-apple-watch.html). NOV 25, 2020
What's New
Phone Buddy Version 7.6.1 addresses an issue where the Last Location Map would display a stale location in certain circumstances. This update also includes general stability and performance improvements. Thanks again for using Phone Buddy! If you like our app please consider writing a review, it really helps :). Any questions or comments? Email: feedback@fre-studios.com
Details
- Developer
- FRE STUDIOS LLC
- Main Category
- Productivity
- Version
- 7.6.1
- Version Release
- 2023-12-01
- Initial Release
- 2019-04-02
- Size
- 31 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 4.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.frestudios.Phone-Buddy-for-Apple-Watch
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.23 (511)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-06-14
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User Reviews
I’ve used this app for years. Problem is when my watch lets me know I left my phone I’m 2 blocks down the road. So I tried distance alerts. It goes off constantly sometimes when my phone is beside me. Then I look and distance alerts is off. I didn’t turn it off. I use it but could be better.
This app does exactly what I wanted: something that would alert me when I leave my iPhone behind. The problem — and it’s a big one—is that the app will randomly turn off the “lost phone” alert, making the app useless, or at something one cannot rely on (ie, useless).
This actually should be a feature that Apple bills into the phone and the watch from the factory. It’s too bad you have to buy another application for five dollars, but it’s gonna be worth it to not forget my phone realize that I don’t have it when I’m halfway out of town.
I bought so many apps, and this is the worst app I have ever experienced, my phone and watch are on my hands and triggers alarms several times in the 1st day of install. The Bluetooth signal is 100% why it triggers the alarm? I was driving and it triggered alarm and it made my wife so mad. I am a software engineer for over 30 years, can you work with me to fix this app? I need this app so I don’t lose my iPhone. It’s very annoying for false alarms, this app not really difficult to do right? Just check the Bluetooth signal strength and..
I have been looking for an app like this for 15 years. For someone who loves to leave their phone in odd places this app works like a leash. It Better then Find My by apple because it’s instantaneous.
It syncs up your watch and phone so if you leave any one behind and you can change the requirements like blue tooth strength complete disconnect etc anyways if you’re out and about it will alert you if you leave your phone or watch behind which can prevent theft and just not paying attention sometimes I like to place my phone down a lot and it’s worth it
please update this app
Stop working with iOS 26
Technically, the app works just fine for “phone left behind” alerts on the watch. What I didn’t know is that the only way it can work is for it to constantly be running on your watch - not just in the background, but actively running. Bad for battery life, and also there’s an animated purple “active app icon” at the top of your screen at all times. I wish I had known that before spending the five dollars to purchase this.
While I have gotten some false reports of missing phone so far it hasn’t missed when I actually left the phone behind. I would like it disabled when I am in my house and on home network this is not a show stopper.
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