Apple Watch flashlight?

MY SOLUTION:
Open Maps, it's screen is almost all white, the brightest app I can find on the watch.
Then put Maps in your Glances.
 
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I had a very simple app called WristLight I use (and created). It's a simple white screen and tend to use it via the glance, and works perfectly in the darkness. Unfortunately Apple don't allow it on the app store (safety and could damage the watch they say, apparently), but if anyone wants it I can upload the Xcode files if you want to add it to your watch. See it here: http://wristlight.weebly.com
 
jamiebrown6 said:
I had a very simple app called WristLight I use (and created). It's a simple white screen and tend to use it via the glance, and works perfectly in the darkness. Unfortunately Apple don't allow it on the app store (safety and could damage the watch they say, apparently), but if anyone wants it I can upload the Xcode files if you want to add it to your watch. See it here: http://wristlight.weebly.com
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That's clever and convenient.

I admire your initiative and contribution.

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we did an app right after the first release of AppleWatch but Apple always refused to publish it as the Watch was not supposed for that usage (there MUST be a "connected" and useful APP for the IPhone too) https://www.facebook.com/AskLightForAppleWatch. We tried many changes to get it approved but the answer as always the same and at the end we gave up... up to when at WWDC2017 it was announced that the new WatchOS4 has a "flash light in the control center that can be used as a blinking safety light when you are doing evening run" (at min 19:25 of the keynote https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017)
 
jamiebrown6 said:
I had a very simple app called WristLight I use (and created). It's a simple white screen and tend to use it via the glance, and works perfectly in the darkness. Unfortunately Apple don't allow it on the app store (safety and could damage the watch they say, apparently), but if anyone wants it I can upload the Xcode files if you want to add it to your watch. See it here: http://wristlight.weebly.com
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I’m told that this is a native app in WatchOS 4 beta, and can opened from the control center.
 
You can create a mostly white background 'photo' and load it to the watch in your photo folder you choose to sync. Set it as the PHOTO watchface. Puts out a white light. I tried the one I attached here after reading this thread.
 

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They've added this in the control center on watchOS4, and it's honestly better than I had hoped for. Some good thought went into the implementation of this feature, and it uses techniques that us developers would not have been able to use, even if Apple wanted to publish such an app.

When you activate the feature, the screen goes white, and at first stays at whatever its normal current brightness is, but then when you point the wrist away from you, the watch detects this motion, and the screen goes into a full 1000 nits brightness mode, which actually lights things up better than I expected, and the screen like that is very hard to look at in the darkness (which is why it waits that you point the wrist away first). As 3rd party developers, we don't have this kind of control over the screen brightness, and until watchOS4, we couldn't even keep the screen on while the watch is pointed away (you'd have to point it away from you, then tap it again to activate)
 
Marconelly said:
They've added this in the control center on watchOS4, and it's honestly better than I had hoped for. Some good thought went into the implementation of this feature, and it uses techniques that us developers would not have been able to use, even if Apple wanted to publish such an app.

When you activate the feature, the screen goes white, and at first stays at whatever its normal current brightness is, but then when you point the wrist away from you, the watch detects this motion, and the screen goes into a full 1000 nits brightness mode, which actually lights things up better than I expected, and the screen like that is very hard to look at in the darkness (which is why it waits that you point the wrist away first). As 3rd party developers, we don't have this kind of control over the screen brightness, and until watchOS4, we couldn't even keep the screen on while the watch is pointed away (you'd have to point it away from you, then tap it again to activate)
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Great dea to be adding this feature. Any chance they're also adding a strobe light to this, or if an app exists for this? Before laughing, a strobe light in darkness can be very disorienting. Shining it in the face of someone attacking you may give you time to run away or defend yourself. I walk a lot at night or in the very early morning with my dog but he is a wimp and more likely to run away if something were to happen. I have an app for this in my phone that I have quick access to, but it would be much quicker and easier if it were a watch feature.
 
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