How to dial numbers from your Apple Watch using Watch Keypad

Taking calls on your Apple Watch is a novel and often convenient experience. Making calls from your wrist, however, can be problematic. This is because the watchOS Phone application doesn’t allow users to dial numbers when making calls; instead, you can only contact individuals already listed inside the application.

As you’d expect, developers promptly fixed this oversight, and one of the best watchOS app fixes for the missing feature is a piece of software called Watch Keypad. You can download the app right now, and it’s available for $0.99 on the App Store.

Watch Keypad is simple. Once installed, it allows Apple Watch owners to make calls or send text messages to new numbers, offering a keypad interface into which thin-fingered users can punch phone numbers. You can also check on your dial history using Watch Keypad, too, in order to save any numbers you punched into the application while on the fly. Of course, from here you can store the number in the iOS Contacts application. There’s even support for a Glance and Watch face complication for speedier access to Watch Keypad.

There are tons of reasons why you might want to call a new number in this way, with the most common of course being that the number itself belongs to a brand new contact. Rather than having to dig out your iPhone in order to make the call, however, Watch Keypad allows users to feel really futuristic and do everything from their wrist. This is definitely a watchOS app we’d recommend.