Are the Apple Watch apps pre installed? If they are can we remove them?

[Armen]

Here is my take on this subject.

My Pebble watch relies on the Pebble watch app to be open and running on my iPhone otherwise I would not get notifications, weather updates etc. You have to set background app refresh on and allow the pebble app to run in that manner to prevent iOS from closing it when it needs to free memory.

I'm no developer but I'm pretty sure the Apple watch app gets a system app level treatment like the phone, messages and mail apps. I don't think they could have made this an optional install because appstore downloadable apps cannot inherit baked in app priorities/features. I'm also pretty sure the apple watch app will be set to run as a system process to prevent issues like I listed above that could happen.

Anyone familiar with development chime in if I'm wrong.

 

[madsci954]

Here is my take on this subject.

My Pebble watch relies on the Pebble watch app to be open and running on my iPhone otherwise I would not get notifications, weather updates etc. You have to set background app refresh on and allow the pebble app to run in that manner to prevent iOS from closing it when it needs to free memory.

I'm no developer but I'm pretty sure the Apple watch app gets a system app level treatment like the phone, messages and mail apps. I don't think they could have made this an optional install because appstore downloadable apps cannot inherit baked in app priorities/features. I'm also pretty sure the apple watch app will be set to run as a system process to prevent issues like I listed above that could happen.

Anyone familiar with development chime in if I'm wrong.

Speaking not as a developer but as someone who tinkers with programming and electronics, I'd wager that's the answer. The Watch needs system level access that built in apps have but not App Store built ones.

 

[C DM]

Speaking not as a developer but as someone who tinkers with programming and electronics, I'd wager that's the answer. The Watch needs system level access that built in apps have but not App Store built ones.

You are saying that even Apple's own apps can't have that simply because they would go through their own App Store?

 

[bushido]

I wonder who designed that app logo? it's the most ugly thing ever. Doesn't follow their own style guidelines and once you open the app it looks even worse. a whole lot of black nothing. looks like something that was slapped together last minuten

 

[dk001]

Well, technically it's already been developed and used long long ago by now.

The Apple De Je Vu process. Time tested.