Ever left your iPhone behind in a restaurant or bar and only realized your mistake much later on? If you own an Apple Watch this never needs to happen, thanks to a useful new app that will warn you when you leave your phone behind.

Lookout

Lookout for Apple Watch (free) has four primary features:

• First it will buzz your watch when you are almost out of Bluetooth range with your iPhone;
• Secondly it will make your iPhone “shout” if you need help finding it – even when the phone is in silent mode;
• And will also show you the last known location of your iPhone on a Map on your watch.
• A Bluetooth signal-based distance meter function shows the relative distance between your watch and your iPhone.

To be fair, some of these features more or less emulate what you get from Apple’s Find My iPhone service, but you get other useful features too, (in the $2.99/month premium version of Lookout), such as automatic photo back-up and theft alert emails if the system notices behavior that suggests your device is stolen, read a little more about it here.

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