How to control your Android phone from Galaxy Watch 4

One explanation individuals purchase a smartwatch is to diminish the time they spend on cell phones. While most smartwatches work effectively at that, they need controls like turning gadgets on and off, for instance, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the spotlight, and focal points for which you might have to open your gadget. Then, at that point, everything necessary is one Instagram notice which prompts minutes to long stretches of unending looking over. Notwithstanding, in the event that you own one of the most outstanding Wear operating system smartwatches, the Universe Watch 4, or any Wear operating system fueled wearable, utilize an application called SimpleWear to flip and control telephone highlights from your watch.

Albeit the application needs administrator consents on Android to work, it's an open source application, so you don't have to stress over it spying and taking your information. This is the way to introduce SimpleWear on your System Watch 4 and control your telephone.

Instructions to control your telephone from System Watch 4

There are two sections to this: introducing SimpleWear on your Cosmic system Watch 4 and telephone and conceding every one of the consents in the friend application.

Introduce the SimpleWear application on Cosmic system Watch 4

Swipe up from the base to open the application menu.

Tap the Play Store symbol to open it.

Tap the search icon and search for SimpleWear

Install the SimpleWear app.

Install SimpleWear on your Android device

Head to the Google Play Store.

Search for SimpleWear and tap install

Once installed, tap Open.

If you don't see SimpleWear on the Play Store, download and install its APK without the Google Play Store or from the official GitHub releases page. Additionally, if you can't locate the SimpleWear companion app on the Google Play Store, fire up the app on your watch and tap the blue icon with a Phone and arrow. This opens the app page on the Google Play Store on your phone.

How to set up SimpleWear

Once you have the app installed on both devices, it's time to start the setup process. All you need to do is follow the instructions on the companion app, and you'll be controlling your phone in no time.

Launch SimpleWear.

Allow all permissions.

The Pair with WearOS device permission might require you to tap the Allow your watch to be shown to other Bluetooth devices for 30 minutes option on the watch. Once enabled, your watch shows up on the app.

The Lock Screen permission requires you to give admin rights to the app, and the rest can be allowed using on-screen popups.

Now that we're done setting up, here's how to use the SimpleWear app on the Galaxy Watch 4.

How to use the SimpleWear app

Now that the watch is connected to the phone, here's how to use SimpleWear to control your Android device from your Galaxy Watch 4.

Open the SimpleWear app on your watch.

Tap the tiles under the Actions menu to enable or disable features

To change the default grid view to a list layout, tap the three-dot icon or swipe up to open the apps' settings.

The settings menu also houses the Dashboard and Tile Editors. You can add a tile. However, you may not use it much as Samsung's quick settings have more tiles. Here's what SimpleWear's tile looks like compared to Samsung's comprehensive three-page quick settings options.

Here's everything you can control using the app:

Enable and disable Wi-Fi, Hotspot, and Bluetooth.

Turn the flashlight on and off.

Instantly lock the screen.

Turn Do not Disturb on and off.

Switch to Ringer, Vibrate, or Silent mode.

Play media from the audio apps on your phone.

Open apps from the watch.

Control brightness and set it to auto.

If you turn off your phone's Bluetooth from the watch, the app still syncs your phone, provided your watch is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your phone.

You can likewise empower and impair portable information and area. To do as such, interface your telephone to a PC and run two or three ADB orders. Follow the authority guide on GitHub to give SimpleWear admittance to the WRITE_SECURE_SETTING consent.

SimpleWear features Google's Biological system issue

A smartwatch is intended to wipe out incessant telephone utilization. There are numerous things Wear operating system gets right, such as getting and settling on decisions and instant messages, controlling music, and matching up upheld applications. In any case, SimpleWear gives extraordinary knowledge into the other little, yet effective biological system highlights Google could bring to the stage to improve it.