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Apps Electronic Leash App

Yes it does :)
Tried it this morning, you can set a perimeter alert in the watch so if it moves beyond a set distance from your phone you get a tap.

There is almost limitless customisation if this app, really happy with it so far.

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It doesn't exactly :-(
You have to move the phone (or other paired device) outside the perimeter for it to work. Not the other way round. When I tested it this morning I got my mate to walk off with my phone. That all works nice.
I have emailed the developer to ask if it's possible to get an alert on the watch when/if it loses the connection to the phone.
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Right. Cause we want the alert when we walk away without the phone. Not if someone else walks away with the phone.

SG94 said:
Yes it does :)
Tried it this morning, you can set a perimeter alert in the watch so if it moves beyond a set distance from your phone you get a tap.

There is almost limitless customisation if this app, really happy with it so far.

Edit:
It doesn't exactly :-(
You have to move the phone (or other paired device) outside the perimeter for it to work. Not the other way round. When I tested it this morning I got my mate to walk off with my phone. That all works nice.
I have emailed the developer to ask if it's possible to get an alert on the watch when/if it loses the connection to the phone.
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AlliFlowers said:
Right. Cause we want the alert when we walk away without the phone. Not if someone else walks away with the phone.
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Right, and I'm not sure it's possible if the watch doesn't know where the watch is located. There is no way to measure distance from the phone. Even with this UnHandMe app, the phone doesn't know where the watch is.

An obvious trick would be counting steps on the watch and alerting when it's done more steps than the phone, but it's just as obviously dumbfounded -- you can be walking around the house or office for hours, wearing the watch, and not touching the phone.

Or maybe it can monitor signal strength, but this gets affected by walls, which many homes have.

I appreciate the UnHandMe's idea of quickly sounding an alarm when the phone gets moved without the owner's permission. However, the scenarios the company describes are signs of idiocy (leaving your bag unattended at a cafe table??) and maybe fear-mongering, and it's not fully automated (you have to turn it off yourself, right?). Yeah, it's trying to be useful, but I don't think it's any better than Find My iPhone.

Besides, what do you do when you confront a thief?
 
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The idea I have submitted to the developer is to see if he could incorporate into the app a function on the watch where it would alert you if the link to the phone is broken. Maybe even set a time limit on how long you can go without the watch seeing the phone.

No reply as yet but I will update as bad when it arrives.
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IMO this is something Apple themselves should be adding to the OS. It's OK having the little connection lost icon on the watch face, but surely it's not a massive leap to get the watch to give you a tap as well?
 
Had a reply from the Dev. He would love to add such a feature and he knows others have had similar ideas for an app. There is a reason no such app or function exists, Apple won't allow it.....
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It seems like it would be a fairly simple test: if the watch loses Bluetooth access to the phone for more than a couple minutes, it is presumably out of range.

Sorry, my fault - the one time I only read the last page of a thread, everyone discussed the idea earlier on.
 
Yep, I don't think anyone is asking for a fire alarm to go off if someone steals your phone.

Just give me the option to vibrate/buzz warning if it loses bluetooth.
 
Saw this on macrumors website. I haven't tried it yet.


"Mobile security company Lookout released an app yesterday that alerts Apple Watch users if they are about to leave their iPhone behind.

The iOS and Apple Watch app uses the Bluetooth connection of an Apple Watch to keep tabs on a user's iPhone location, so that if the wearer steps out of range of their phone, the app automatically buzzes their watch. "


Lookout – Security, Backup and Missing Device by Lookout, Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/zr_6z.i
 
tommyd75 said:
Saw this on macrumors website. I haven't tried it yet.


"Mobile security company Lookout released an app yesterday that alerts Apple Watch users if they are about to leave their iPhone behind.

The iOS and Apple Watch app uses the Bluetooth connection of an Apple Watch to keep tabs on a user's iPhone location, so that if the wearer steps out of range of their phone, the app automatically buzzes their watch. "


Lookout – Security, Backup and Missing Device by Lookout, Inc.
https://appsto.re/us/zr_6z.i
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Sorry, didn't see this thread and already kicked one off for the Lookout app yesterday:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lookout-app.1960348/

It does the Bluetooth thing. Unfortunately, the watch/phone pairing switches from BT to wifi fairly quickly. There's lots of false positives with this app. We NEED Apple to give us a taptic & sound notification when we've lost connection to the phone (simply add this to the existing feature).
 
Yep, horrible reviews on the App store from does not work as advertised to the boy who cried wolf stuff (false positives).
I wouldn't install that app, especially since I hear they need you to log on to something to use.
 
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