Google and the Apple Watch: Calendar comes, Keep disappears

There is Google takes it: Users of the Apple Watch are currently confronted with this. A popular app was painted off the computer clock without replacement, another is added, even if it is still quite simply knitted.

Keep no longer stopped

The to-do list and note manager Google Keep will no longer be available for Watchos. And the end suddenly comes: it is enough Version 2.2025.26200 Install the app on the iPhone connected to the Apple Watch. After that, the watchos app simply disappears without a trace. Google did not even find it necessary to put a reference to the release notes of the app: it only says that it contains “error corrections and performance improvements”. However, the cancellation of the Apple watch app should be neither the former nor the second.

However, Google had long hadn’t taken care of the application more intensively – at least with regard to new functions. Updates were nevertheless delivered regularly. Information on why the deletion was now not made. Interestingly, the variant of Google Keep for Wear OS will initially be preserved. Apple users can also switch to a native version of the manufacturer’s notes app with Watchos 26, which will then (September) then exist.

Calendar is now

A positive message comes from Google’s calendar team: while Keep disappears without a trace, ends up Google Calendar For the first time on the Apple Watch. To do this, too, is enough to install the iOS version on the iPhone connected to the watch, From Verson 25.24.1 is the client in the package.

The app is currently still quite modest. So you can currently only see a week of events by default and can be displayed in a list view. The Apple Watch app does not know deep details per event either, it then refers to the iPhone app. Google delivers two different complications for the Watch dial, plus smart stack widget. Disturbing: So far it is not possible to add tasks or events directly from the watch. All of this is reminiscent of Google Calendar’s Wear-OS app.