OCTOBER 2019 MACWORLD 91wonderful iTranslate on your wrist feels a
bit like having one of the universal
translators from Star Trek. It recommends a
language based on your location as well
as useful simple phrases that show up on
the large complication, but you can also
press it and ask for specific translations.
After that, the new phrase will stay
visible for a bit. In the smaller version, it
merely gives you quick access to the app,
but it will at least tell you which language
it’s set to. There’s a large array of
languages to choose from, too, ranging
from French to Afrikaans.
- BATTERYPHONE
Price: Free at go.macworld.com/btph
You’ll find several good apps for checking
your iPhone’s battery on your Apple
Watch, but my favorite is BatteryPhone. It
tells you the status of your iPhone’s
battery, yes, but it also tells you how much
battery life your Apple Watch has left—and
it does this for both the large and small
versions of the complication. To my
knowledge, no other battery life app on
the App Store does this.
In addition, it’ll notify you when your
iPhone is fully charged (and vice versa on
the iPhone with the Apple Watch). The
catch is that the interface is kind of ugly
and that—thanks to limitations from
Apple—you can’t get updates more than
every 30 minutes. If you want a good
subscription-based alternative, check out
Remote Battery (go.macworld.com/rmbt).Longer phrases won’t fit in the preview, so
you’ll still have to open.
I really wish “battery” wasn’t lowercase.
Fortunately, I usually use the smaller version.