Keep Your Primary Contact Close With the CompliMate Contact Complication

This simple app fills a niche that’s missing from the Apple Watch. CompliMate Contact supplies a contact complication. You choose your primary contact, such as a spouse or significant other, and make him or her a complication on your Apple Watch face. With just a single tap, you can reach out to the most important person in your life.

On the iPhone, you choose the person you want to appear on your watch face. Then you choose if you want Text, Call, or FaceTime Audio to be the default form of contact. For testing purposes, I put my husband in this spot, and chose Text as the default contact. Regardless of which form you choose as the default, you will still have the option to do any of the three forms of contact.

You can see in the photo below how the complication looks in two different watch faces. My husband’s initials are BF, and C/F/T stands for Call, FaceTime, and Text.

Tap on the complication to be taken to the face that shows your primary contact’s name, number, and the three text/calling options. This face shows for only a second, and if you don’t choose one of the three options immediately, you will be taken to your default method. In my case, this was texting. First it shows your last few messages, and then it finally takes you to your primary contact’s screen, where you can text him or her.

I did try to call and FaceTime, but that didn’t work out so well. It took so long to get there that it wasn’t useful at all.

Keep in mind, I am running watchOS 3 on my Apple Watch, which has affected the functionality of many apps. I found this app to be sluggish at times, but I don’t know if it’s because I’m on the watchOS 3 beta or if this would be the case for anyone.

Overall, I definitely think this is an app worth downloading and playing around with, since it’s free on the App Store. I’d like to see it run more smoothly, but I expect it will get better with time once the developer has a chance to update for watchOS 3.