Apple Watch solely works with iPhones, however there was a degree wherein Apple tried to make it suitable with Android telephones, too. Sadly, it did not work out.

The long-rumored information was revealed in Apple’s response to the Division of Justice’s lawsuit towards the corporate, 9to5Mac reported Thursday.

The DOJ’s lawsuit explicitly mentions Apple Watch in its antitrust swimsuit towards Apple.

“Apple’s smartwatch—Apple Watch—is simply suitable with the iPhone. So, if Apple can steer a person in the direction of shopping for an Apple Watch, it turns into extra expensive for that person to buy a special type of smartphone as a result of doing so requires the person to desert their expensive Apple Watch and buy a brand new, Android-compatible smartwatch. (…) Apple additionally acknowledges that making Apple Watch suitable with Android would ‘take away[an] iPhone differentiator’,” the lawsuit states.

However 9to5Mac says Apple has confirmed it thought-about including Android help for the Apple Watch. The corporate regarded into the concept for 3 years, after which it decided that it couldn’t be carried out as a consequence of technical limitations.

A Bloomberg report on this matter relationship November 2023, nonetheless, doesn’t shed a really optimistic mild on Apple’s intentions relating to the Android-compatible Apple Watch. In response to the report, the trouble to carry Android help to Apple Watch was partially scrapped as it might “dilute the worth of the watch to the iPhone.”

It is price noting that many standard smartwatches that are not made by Apple, together with Google’s personal Pixel Watch, aren’t suitable with Apple’s iOS, both.