Petr Škuta Google Maps, Messenger, Amazon apps, and many others have already stopped supporting the Apple Watch some time ago. Now they are joined by the popular augmented reality game Pokémon GO.
Niantic announced that Pokémon GO will stop supporting the Apple Watch on July 1, 2019. Fortunately, however, it has already prepared a replacement solution in the form of the Adventure Sync function some time ago. It can synchronize all data with the Health application or Google Fit.
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Filip Brož According to the creators, it will no longer be necessary to maintain a special application only for the Apple Watch in development. The latter itself primarily enabled pokémon to hatch from eggs (it recorded steps), or could alert you to pokéstops or potential pokémon.
More or less, it makes sense to connect with the data obtained from the health app. Although players will no longer be notified of other activities, as the watch application was able to do, they will definitely not miss out on hatching eggs.
In addition, the application for the Watch was never completely independent, which may have hindered its use. It has always functioned more like an extended hand of the one in the iPhone, and for most actions it already required the use of a smartphone. So she never used her potential.
Third-party apps are leaving Apple Watch
Anyway, we can observe a very interesting trend. In the early days of watchOS, many companies and developers released their apps for Apple's smartwatches as well. But eventually they began to drop their support.
Perhaps this was caused by watchOS itself, which had many limitations, especially in the early versions. It allowed applications only a certain set of activities, they had a limited amount of RAM available. However, with the evolving operating system, these barriers gradually fell, yet many applications did not return to the watch.
In theory, the hardware itself, which was not at all powerful in the "zero" generation, was also to blame. The system was able to get stuck even on the Series 2, which sometimes had trouble booting up and eventually restarted repeatedly and on its own. However, the hardware has also matured since the Watch Series 3.
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However, we said goodbye to Messenger, Twitter, Google Maps, Amazon apps and many others. It's also quite possible that even after so many years, developers don't know how to properly grasp watch apps.
So we can only hope that Apple will show them the way with their native apps.
Source: 9to5Mac
the app didn't work properly anyway
I don't know about you, but I haven't said goodbye to Messenger on my watch..
Otherwise, Adventure Sync in Pokemon hasn't been working for about 3 weeks since the last iOS update and there was still no update to fix it?
Messenger on the Watch end? Source?