Can I record a consult from my Apple Watch?
On paid plans, start, stop and check a recording from the wrist — the watch app is a companion to the iPhone app. The same consent and review rules apply.
Yes — on a paid plan, from the wrist you can start, stop and check a recording while your iPhone stays in your pocket. The watch app is a companion to the iPhone app: the iPhone does the capturing, and it needs to be nearby. Standalone capture from the watch alone is on the roadmap, not in the app today.
That’s what a ward round asks for: bedside to bedside, quick capture from the phone or the wrist, without unlocking anything larger.
The rules don’t change on the wrist
A watch or phone may capture the conversation, but no note is committed anywhere without your explicit review and confirmation. The same consent gates, the same [not stated] discipline, the same audit trail — on every platform.
Consent is part of that. Audio is captured only after the in-product consent step, including audio relayed from a paired watch. See how consent works before a recording starts.
Where the note gets reviewed
Clinical features follow your plan. You can review the draft in the web app, which covers capture, drafts, letters and tasks, with features determined by your plan. Wherever you review, every clinical output needs your explicit confirmation before it is finalised or exported. Paid plans delete audio on confirmation by default; Free deletes it when the first draft arrives.
One subscription covers all your devices. The apps page has what’s available now and what follows after.
What we haven’t published
We haven’t published a date for standalone watch capture — it’s on the roadmap, and we’d rather say that than name a date we might miss. If the companion behaviour matters for the way your ward round runs, ask us and we’ll tell you where it stands.
Still stuck?
Email support@smallmercy.app — or see the contact page. Service status lives at status.smallmercy.app.