The Google graveyard has claimed one other sufferer: the corporate has killed the Apple Watch model of its Preserve app. Whereas the note-taking app continues to be accessible for iPhone and iPad, the 2.2025.26200 Google Keep App Store update launched on Monday has eliminated watchOS help, bringing the overall variety of Google apps for Apple Watch again down to 3.
This sours some hope that Google would increase its watchOS app choices after quietly rolling out a brand new native Google Calendar app for Apple Watch yesterday, having initially pulled a number of Google apps from the platform in 2017. The Google Preserve app was launched to watchOS in 2019 however has largely been uncared for since, missing any significant updates. Now, Google Calendar, Maps, and YouTube Music are all that stay, with the latter two additionally in want of modernization.
Whereas outdated, Preserve was nonetheless practical on Apple Watch, offering a handy means for customers to shortly create lists or jot down info on the go. There doesn’t look like a notable third-party different on watchOS to interchange it. Its elimination confirms a number of reports made by Keep users on Reddit last month, who mentioned Google had notified them that “the watch app can be deprecated quickly.” We have now reached out to Google to make clear why the app was eliminated.
Preserve continues to be accessible for smartwatches working on Google’s personal Put on OS platform. That’s unlikely to be of any consolation to Apple Watch customers who’re disrupted by the elimination, nevertheless; they might want to wait till Apple brings a local model of the Notes app to watchOS 26 this fall.