Control the iPhone app with Apple Watch

The Interview Pilot app for Apple Watch is a remote control for the iPhone app. From your wrist, you can start listening, ask for an answer and end the interview. Answers still appear on your iPhone, which must stay open on the Copilot tab.

Set up your watch

You need an Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later, paired with the iPhone that has Interview Pilot.

1. Install the watch app

   Interview Pilot for Apple Watch comes with the iPhone app. If it isn’t on your watch, open the Watch app on your iPhone and install Interview Pilot from there. The steps may vary with your iOS version.

2. Check Watch Controls

   In Interview Pilot on your iPhone, open Settings (the Profile tab) and tap Connect Apple Watch. Watch Controls is on until you turn it off.

3. Open Interview Pilot on your watch

   Under Connection Status, your iPhone shows Connected when the watch app is open and reachable.

4. Open the Copilot tab on your iPhone

   The watch controls the session on the Copilot tab. Your watch shows Tap Record to start or Welcome to Interview Pilot when it’s ready.

Connection Status

Status	What it means
Connected	The watch app is open and reachable.
Installed	The watch app is installed but not open. Open it on your watch.
Checking	Interview Pilot is checking the connection. Wait a moment.
Not Installed	Install Interview Pilot on your watch.
No Watch	No paired Apple Watch was found.
Unavailable	Watch controls can’t be used on this device.

You also see the status under Connect Apple Watch in Settings.

The watch buttons

The watch has two buttons, like the Copilot tab on your iPhone: a large main button at the bottom and a small round button at the top left. They change with the session.

1

Capturing question

tell me about a time you led a project with a tight deadline

Answer

2

1

Stop, Clear, Resume, Done or End

2

Record, Answer or End & Save

Main button	What it does
Record	Starts listening.
Answer	Turns green when there’s something to answer. Tap it to ask for an answer.
Countdown	Auto-Generate is counting down. Tap to answer straight away.
Listening	Copilot is listening but hasn’t heard anything yet.
Generating	The answer is being written on your iPhone.
End & Save	Saves the interview and starts a new session.
Connecting, Stopping	Wait a moment.
Permissions	Interview Pilot needs microphone access. Allow it on your iPhone.

The round button shows an icon:

Icon	What it does
Square	Stop: stops listening.
Circular arrow	Clear: clears the transcript and keeps listening.
Play	Resume: cancels the Auto-Generate countdown and keeps listening.
Check mark	Done or End: leaves the session, or ends it.
×	Cancel: keeps the interview going instead of ending it.

The top of the watch shows the session’s status, such as Listening, Capturing question or Generating answer. While Copilot listens, the watch also shows the last words of the transcript. Answers appear only on your iPhone.

Your watch taps your wrist when you press a button. If the iPhone can’t carry out the action, you feel a different tap and nothing changes.

End the interview from your watch

1. If Copilot is still listening, tap the round button to stop. If it shows Clear, tap it, then tap Stop.
2. Tap the round button again for Done, then once more for End.
3. Your watch shows End interview?. Tap End & Save to save the interview to History, or Cancel to go back.

These match Stop, Done and End on your iPhone. See Start, answer, clear and end.

If your watch doesn’t respond

Watch shows	What to do
Open on iPhone or Open Interview screen on iPhone, with Waiting on the main button	Open Interview Pilot on your iPhone, go to the Copilot tab and keep the watch app open.
Controls off or Enable Apple Watch controls in Settings	On your iPhone, open Settings › Connect Apple Watch and turn on Watch Controls.
Enable permissions on iPhone or Allow microphone access	Allow microphone access for Interview Pilot on your iPhone.

If it still doesn’t work, check Connection Status on your iPhone. If it says Installed, open the watch app again.