- Vivo says that his next folding will offer Apple Watch support
- Synchronization seems to work via iCloud connection
- It is not clear if Apple will ultimately allow it to work
We did not have Apple Watch’s support for Android phones on our Tech Bingo card for 2025 – or for a year, moreover – but Vivo announced that the next Vivo X Fold 5 would be the first Android phone to work with the Apple laptop.
According to an official article on Weibo (via 9TO5GOOGLE), you can answer calls and read SMS on your Apple Watch when it is connected to your X Fold 5, as well as the synchronization health data between the two devices.
Based on Vivo’s subsequent publications, it seems that it works via a kind of iCloud connection via the web. I count on Google Translate, but there are also data synchronization mentions to and from an iPhone.
It will be interesting to see how it works, when it happens – because it could probably be configured on other Android phones. As you may already know, Apple leaders have planned to add Android support to the Apple Watch, but abandoned the effort due to “technical limitations”.
I hope it happens, but I’m not convinced
The obstacle to try to add the Apple Watch support to an Android phone is similar to the problem of trying to create a third -party application to access your iMessages: Apple will not let you do it, which is a fairly large stumbling block.
For the moment, at least, Apple wants its intelligent watches to be accessories of its iPhones, and therefore does not want a device like the Apple Watch 10 falling on the connection to an Android phone – even if it could sell more laptops accordingly.
Whatever hack that Vivo has in mind, it is almost given that Apple will block it with a software update. If the Apple Watch gets an Android official support, it will be because Apple allows – perhaps due to the continuous antitrust pressure that it is under.
Although I am a dedicated Android user with regard to my main phone of choice, I would like the option of using an Apple watch on my wrist – it certainly compares well to the best boys and the best Android watches.
However, this is not a choice that Apple wants to give me now, and I’m not sure that Vivo will do a lot.
