Google kills its Keep app on Apple Watch

Google hasn’t shown Keep overmuch emotion since bringing it to Apple Watch successful 2019.

The Google graveyard has claimed different victim: the institution has killed the Apple Watch mentation of its Keep app. While the note-taking app is inactive disposable for iPhone and iPad, the 2.2025.26200 Google Keep App Store update released connected Monday has removed watchOS support, bringing the full fig of Google apps for Apple Watch backmost down to three.

This sours immoderate anticipation that Google would grow its watchOS app offerings aft softly rolling retired a new autochthonal Google Calendar app for Apple Watch yesterday, having initially pulled respective Google apps from the level successful 2017. The Google Keep app was introduced to watchOS successful 2019 but has mostly been neglected since, lacking immoderate meaningful updates. Now, Google Calendar, Maps, and YouTube Music are each that remain, with the second 2 besides successful request of modernization.

While outdated, Keep was inactive functional connected Apple Watch, providing a convenient mode for users to rapidly make lists oregon jot down accusation connected the go. There doesn’t look to beryllium a notable third-party alternate connected watchOS to regenerate it. Its removal confirms respective reports made by Keep users connected Reddit past month, who said Google had notified them that “the ticker app would beryllium deprecated soon.” We person reached retired to Google to clarify wherefore the app was removed.

Keep is inactive disposable for smartwatches moving connected Google’s ain Wear OS platform. That’s improbable to beryllium of immoderate comfortableness to Apple Watch users who are disrupted by the removal, however; they volition request to hold until Apple brings a autochthonal mentation of the Notes app to watchOS 26 this fall.