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The Cockney Rebel

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When I go to the watch's App Store, it's showing as available to buy.

When I look on my iPad or iPhone, it's greyed out and shows as purchased.

Can anyone please advice?

Thanks.
 
Don't purchased apps sync from the iPhone? Open up the watch app on your iPhone, and look around for where you check which apps you want installed on your watch.
 
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Don't purchased apps sync from the iPhone? Open up the watch app on your iPhone, and look around for where you check which apps you want installed on your watch.
Interestingly, the one complication is now showing as downloadable on my watch, and is installed.

Apple can be a strange thing.
 
I think many watch apps need to be first installed on the paired iPhone before they can be installed on the watch. They aren't stand-alone, but extensions of the iPhone app.
That doesn’t appear to be so.

I now have one of the apps installed on my watch, and no iPhone counterpart.
 
Did you try my suggestion in the Show off your Apple Watch thread?

Go to the App Store on your Watch (not on your iPhone) scroll all the way down to Account and then click on Purchases. You can download them from there. Had to do the same thing the other day when I bought TimeGlance.
 
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Did you try my suggestion in the Show off your Apple Watch thread?

Go to the App Store on your Watch (not on your iPhone) scroll all the way down to Account and then click on Purchases. You can download them from there. Had to do the same thing the other day when I bought TimeGlance.
I tried that, thanks.

Never worked.

A while later, it just appeared on the watch’s App Store.

The other items in the bundle (apart from one app that I’d already bought) still aren’t showing.

I think it’s because I bought the bundle on my iPad.

Thanks for your help 👍🏼.
 
The thing is they are not apps, they are complications only. There is nothing to download from the App Store on the iPhone/iPad. As far as I'm aware they can only be downloaded from the App Store directly on the Apple Watch.
 
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