Lesson 04 · 5 min 5 min

The watch

What will not wait for you to pull out the phone.

In development. The iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and Wear OS apps are in development and are not downloadable from the App Store or Google Play yet. This course teaches the app our test teams already use daily, which is the same one you will see on release day.

The watch is not the app made small. It answers one very specific question: what happens when you are at a table, inside a house, or shaking someone's hand, and pulling out your phone would look bad or simply is not possible.

There is no sign-in on the watch

You sign in on the phone and the watch is ready. The session travels between the two paired devices on its own and is stored in the watch's own keychain, so with its own signal the watch talks straight to the server even if the phone stayed in the car.

If you open the watch and it asks you to open Galilei Hub on your phone, that is not an error: it has not received the session yet. Signing in once on the phone resolves it.

Your pages, not every page

You turn the crown to move between pages, and yours depend on your role exactly like the phone bar. A brokerage account carries the Glance, the call queue, your tasks and your agenda; then messages and chat; and the week last, because that is what you read once a day, not what resolves the next minute.

A lender carries their loans and their shared queue first. Whoever administers the platform also carries their request inbox. Nobody loads pages their account cannot fill.

The two things you do from your wrist

The first is telling someone you are on the way. You tap the appointment and the client gets the heads-up without you taking out the phone. If you already sent it a while ago, the watch tells you instead of sending it twice.

The second is starting a call. You tap whoever is next in the queue and the phone places the call, on the brokerage line with its record. The watch is the button; the phone is still the line.

The face is where the time is actually won

The complication on your face —the tile, on Wear OS— is what saves you from opening the app at all: your next appointment and your unread count, on your wrist, refreshing on their own when something new lands.

Tip: With no coverage the watch does not go blank: it paints the last thing it had and tells you how old it is ("6 min ago"). Stale data with no timestamp misleads more than an empty screen.