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If you own an Apple Watch, you've probably already noticed that you can install applications on it - just like on an iPhone, iPad or even a Mac. Until recently, the Apple Watch was "dependent" on the iPhone. So, if you wanted to get some applications on the Apple Watch, you had to download them to the iPhone first, and then they appeared on the Apple Watch. However, as part of the latest updates, the watchOS operating system received its own App Store, which means that the Apple Watch is no longer dependent on the iPhone. Even so, apps you download to your iPhone can automatically install on your Apple Watch—if they have a watchOS version. You will learn how to prevent this in this article.

How to prevent apps installed on iPhone from installing on Apple Watch

If you want to automatically install apps on your Apple Watch prohibit, so first you need to move to iPhone, with which your Apple Watch is paired. Once you've done that, you'll open a native app on your iPhone called Watch. Here, then in the bottom menu, make sure you are in the section named My watch. In the application, then go down something below, until you hit the section In general, which you click. Here then you only need to use the switch deactivated function Automatic installation of applications. Now already not resulting in the fact that all applications installed on the iPhone will also be installed on the Apple Watch.

Now, whenever you install an app on your iPhone that also has an Apple Watch version, it's on your Apple Watch does not install. Instead, you will only be shown possibility pros manual installation version for watchOS. To view the apps you can on your Apple Watch manually install so just go to the app Watch, where in the section My watch get off all the way down. Here you can apps from iPhone manually add or already installed applications on Apple Watch remove.

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