Apple Watch

HoraDose has an Apple Watch app that displays your doses directly on your wrist. The watch app (watch-face complications included) comes with the Premium plan; on the free version, the watch simply shows a screen inviting you to open HoraDose on your iPhone. Your reminders and your data always stay on your iPhone, whatever your plan.

If a watch is detected while you are on the free version, a discreet banner may appear at the top of the Home screen: “Your Apple Watch can show your medications with HoraDose Premium — Learn more”. Tapping it opens a small dialog offering to see the plans; the ✕ closes it, and it can only come back once, about 30 days later.

• Your day, hour by hour: the watch shows the same timeline as the Home screen — doses, wake-up, meals, bedtime and food restrictions, sorted by time. On every wrist raise, the list positions itself so everything left to take is visible: doses with a take button (and the "take today" card) land at the top of the screen; otherwise the list opens on the current-time marker (a white pointer followed by a line), including during a food restriction: the end of the orange zone stays visible right below.
• Doses: a taken dose shows its time followed by a green ✓ (on time / early / late); a due dose keeps its "Confirm dose" button, an approaching dose its "Take early" button. As soon as you tap, your dose is saved right away; sending to your iPhone finishes in the background.
• One tile per dose, like on the phone: two medications scheduled at the same time on two different schedules each have their own tile. Linked medications (one shared schedule) stay in a single tile, with one row per medication: its pill, its name, then "strength · quantity" (for a confirmed dose, the quantity recorded for that medication). Up to 5 medications, everything is shown; from 6, the tile shows the number of medications, 4 rows and "Show the N other medications" (tapping the tile opens the screen that lists them all). When you confirm, you tap the dose of each medication; "Confirm dose" becomes available once every dose has been tapped.
• One reminder for the whole hour: when several medications are scheduled at the same time, tapping the reminder opens a single confirmation listing them all, each with its quantity.
• After a dose: when the confirmation closes, the list scrolls by itself to your next dose. An update from the iPhone never moves the list.
• A tile taller than the screen: when you raise your wrist, the list first shows the top of the tile (the first medications), then scrolls slowly down to the button "Confirm dose". Touching the screen or turning the crown stops the scroll. With "Reduce Motion", the list goes straight to the button.
• "Take today": a free-intake medication appears just like on the phone — an amber dashed-border card that follows the timeline, below the buttoned doses. It reminds you of the deadline ("before HH:MM") and its "I took this medication" button stays available until midnight. Once confirmed, it becomes a green ✓ row at the real intake time.
• The ⋮ button at the top right of each dose tile, or a tap on the tile, opens its options (the same as on the phone: remind me later, skip this dose, undo this dose…). An unconfirmed dose is the exception: tapping it opens its confirmation directly. A long press no longer does anything. With VoiceOver, the button is announced "Options for" followed by the medication (or the time of the dose when there are several), and the tile offers the "Options" action. Unconfirmed doses always stay visible in the timeline.
• Meals, wake-up and bedtime: tap the tile to move today's time — one-tap suggestions first, then 15-minute steps.
• Food restrictions: the period appears as an orange zone in your day; tap the time at the top or the one at the bottom of the zone to see the hours and the medications involved.
• As needed: your as-needed medications sit at the end of the list, with today's count and a "Take a dose" button. Each intake also appears in the timeline as a "✓ · As needed" row at its real time, with the quantity taken.
• Settings ⚙: a corner button opens two watch-local settings — Past shown/hidden (unconfirmed doses always stay visible) and the restrictions display (none / current / all).
• Haptic Vibrations: alert when each dose is due.
• Mood Entry: tap the face at the bottom left. A ✓ checkmark confirms the send.

The four corners mirror the phone's home screen, so there is nothing to relearn from one device to the other.

• Top left — the icon of the module you are in. Tap it to open the list: HoraDose, Appointments, Contacts, Ensemble, Journal, Statistics. The icon tells you where you are first, and only then offers to take you elsewhere.
• Top right — the watch settings.
• Bottom left — your mood and symptoms, behind a single face. Coloured means today's mood is recorded; an outline means it is not yet.
• Bottom right — the yellow sticky note, the same one as on the phone, to dictate or write a note.

Tap the yellow sticky note at the bottom right of the watch. The "Add to journal" menu offers: "A note", "A quick note" and "An exercise".

For a quick note, choose the note, then set the numbers with the watch crown (or its rotating bezel). The suggested time is "Now".

After sending, the watch shows "Sending". It shows "Note saved" only once your phone has confirmed. If the phone does not answer within 8 seconds, the screen closes without "Note saved": the watch does not make you enter it again. Then open the journal on the phone to check.

• Journal: your day, exactly as on the phone — doses, moods, notes, exercise and symptom entries, in time order. Nothing is dropped because the screen is small; symptom episodes keep their frame, with "started at…" and "Ended at…".
• Contacts: a contact's details and a Call button, shown only when you have saved a number.
• Ensemble: the people you support, first name only, with today's state. A tap opens the same information as on the phone.
• Appointments: your upcoming appointments, and a + to add one.
• Statistics: for each medication, the number of doses you confirmed that day and the quantity it adds up to ("3 doses · 4 tablets"). One day at a time: the date is written at the top of the screen and stays there. Swipe right to go back to earlier days, left to come forward; tap ⟲ Today to return to the current day in one gesture.

The watch shows only what you have taken — no percentage, no count of missed doses. A day with nothing recorded simply reads "No dose recorded." You cannot go back further than your first recorded dose, nor past today. For charts, trends and longer periods, open My statistics on the phone.

Editing a contact, removing an Ensemble link or changing a sharing setting stay on the phone: those are not decisions to take on a small screen with no keyboard to undo them.

In Appointments, the + offers two visible choices: Type or Dictate. Say your sentence ("Doctor Tremblay next Thursday at two"), read it back — one tap corrects it — then Continue.

The watch then shows "Open HoraDose on your phone". Your phone is what reads the sentence, and it presents a pre-filled form with the date written out in full. Nothing is saved until you validate that form — and whatever the sentence did not say stays empty, never guessed. As soon as you create the appointment or cancel, the watch goes back to your list on its own.

• A dose that is not due yet: "Scheduled for 2:00 PM — 42 min to go", above the button, which then reads "Take early".
• Several medications with a choice of quantity: "Tap the dose of each medication" appears as soon as the screen opens, and the button stays inactive until every quantity is chosen.
• A restriction-end reminder: if you asked to be consulted each time (Settings → Notifications), a row "Remind me when the restriction ends" appears just above the button. It is off by default.
• A dose already recorded: if you already confirmed this intake, the watch says so — "You already took this medication at 11:52 AM, 8 minutes ago" — and offers no confirmation button at all. Only "Got it".

1. Install HoraDose on your iPhone.
2. Open the Watch app on your iPhone.
3. Scroll to HoraDose and tap Install.

HoraDose offers a watch-face complication that shows the time of your next dose, over a pill icon in the background. Tapping the complication opens HoraDose on the watch.

The time on the face comes with the Premium plan. On the free version, the complication shows the pill only.

When the next dose has only one medication whose pill you described, the complication and the Smart Stack card show that pill instead of the generic pill, in the same place and just as faint. With two or more medications, the generic pill stays. On a tinted watch face, the pill takes the face's tint.

What if the time has passed? As long as the dose is still waiting to be confirmed, its time stays on the face and turns orange — meaning it is late but still possible. As soon as you confirm the dose (on the iPhone or the watch), the complication moves on to the next dose, or falls back to the pill alone when nothing is left today. If the dose is never confirmed, the orange time clears itself after a while (the dose is then marked as not taken in the app). A watch away from your iPhone may take a while to update: always check in the app before taking a medication.

From the watch face, turn the Digital Crown down to open the watch's stack of cards. HoraDose can sit there: add it with Edit Stack → +, listed as “HoraDose — Next dose”.

The card shows “Next dose”, the time in large type, then the time remaining, which updates on its own. Once the time has passed it reads “Dose overdue” with the time in orange, for as long as taking it still makes sense. When nothing is left today it says “No upcoming dose” — it tells you, rather than sitting blank. The same marks as the face (food restriction, situation) appear on the right.

Like the complication, the card shows no medication name: the name, the amount and the time are shown in the app, on the screen that confirms the dose. Tapping it opens HoraDose on the watch.

How to add it

1. On your Apple Watch, long-press the current face.
2. Tap Edit, then scroll to the Complications page.
3. Tap the slot where you want to add HoraDose.
4. Scroll the list and pick HoraDose.

Supported families

• Circular (most modern faces): the time in the centre, the pill behind it.
• Corner (Infograph, Modular and similar faces): the pill in the corner, the time along the bezel.

When one of your medications requires you not to eat before or after the dose, a small dot appears under the time — on the watch face, in the watch app and on the Home Screen widgets.

Green circle (hollow): a restriction is coming, you can still eat. It lights up according to the advance notice you chose in Settings (30 minutes by default); set to zero, it never appears. Orange dot (filled): the restriction is in effect. No dot: nothing to report.

The dot changes nothing about the time shown: it stays the time of your next dose, in white, or in orange if that dose is late — both can appear together. In the watch app, the dot stays pinned at the top of the screen: it does not scroll with the list. To see until what time the restriction lasts, open HoraDose on your iPhone.

Every action you take on your Apple Watch — confirming a dose, logging a mood, tapping a notification action button — is sent automatically to your iPhone. No manual action required.

Offline display and data freshness

The Watch now always shows the last known data, even when out of range of your iPhone — you no longer see a blank screen. Depending on how old the data is:

• Recent data: no special message, the display is up to date.
• Beyond 2 hours: a subtle "Updated X ago" note appears so you know the age of the data.
• Before a dose, if the data may be out of date: a "Data may be out of date — check before confirming" warning appears, and the confirm button becomes "Refresh, then confirm" (it triggers a fresh sync before recording the dose).

The "Open HoraDose on your iPhone" message now appears only when the Watch is genuinely disconnected from the iPhone with no recent exchange — for example very first use, or a force-quit iPhone out of range. If the doses you take on your wrist keep getting through, this message does not appear, even if you haven't opened the iPhone app for several hours.

Technical limit: the Apple Watch cannot relaunch a force-quit iPhone app (swiped up from the app switcher) nor unlock your iPhone. In that case, relaunch HoraDose on your iPhone once to restore sync.

Protection against a double dose

If, while the confirmation screen is open on your watch, that same dose is confirmed from the phone, the watch tells you: "Already taken — You already took this medication at hh:mm." The confirm button disappears (it is not renamed), a light vibration warns you, and the button that replaces it sits elsewhere and stays inactive for a second — so a finger already moving cannot trigger it by accident.

The other way round, a dose confirmed from the watch cannot be recorded a second time on the phone.

Unconfirmed doses always visible on iPhone

On the iPhone home screen you can hide the day's past doses to keep the list tidy. Unconfirmed (missed) doses always stay shown, even when the past is hidden: you never lose sight of a dose that hasn't been confirmed yet.