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How to connect your Huawei smartwatch or fitness tracker to your smartphone

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Huawei puts out a range of good smartwatches and fitness trackers including the Band 3 Pro and Lookout man GT ii, and that'south not even including those fabricated by its sub-make Honor. However, at that place was a recent change to how you connect its wearables to your smartphone, make the prospect of owning one of these devices rather less appealing.

At present, you need to download every bit many as three apps if you lot ain an Android phone, and not all of them are available on the Play Store. That's reason plenty to make devices from other companies look more tempting, but if yous've already got a Huawei smartwatch or fettle tracker, you're forced to go through this procedure.

To brand the somewhat confusing ordeal a little bit easier, we've written this guide on how to connect your Huawei smartwatch or fitness tracker to your phone.

How to connect your Huawei smartwatch or fitness tracker to a smartphone

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Firstly, make sure you've got your clothing and phone to paw. On the telephone, caput into the Play Shop and download Huawei Health app. For whatever other wearable, one connectivity app would be enough, but this is simply the start of your ordeal.

To utilize Huawei Wellness, yous also demand to download Huawei Mobile Services, and then discover this app in the Play Store and download it too. However this version of HMS doesn't work properly, and the only mode to update information technology is to download a 3rd app.

This third app, Huawei AppGallery, isn't actually available on the Play Shop. The app, which Huawei created to replace the Play Store on its phones (given the Huawei ban means the company can't use the Play Store), is exactly what its proper noun suggests – an app to download other apps with.

To download the AppGallery, you accept to head over to Huawei's website (opens in new tab). Click 'Install Now', give your spider web browser permission to download files if you haven't already, and download the file. Now get into your phone's downloads file and select the app, which prompts AppGallery to install.

When you're in the AppGallery app, agree to its permissions, and then search 'HMS Core' and update it. This should take a curt while, but when it's done, the Huawei Mobile Services you downloaded before should be updated, which means you lot can head into Huawei Health without any issue.

In one case you're in Huawei Health, you lot'll be prompted to sign in with your Huawei ID (which you'll need to create if yous don't already accept), although you can sign in via SMS to save time.

Now, finally, yous'll be in Huawei Health, and you can set up up your wearable by heading to 'Devices' in the lesser card and pressing 'Add', so following the instructions on screen.

With this done, you'll have finally set your Huawei smartwatch or fitness tracker and connected it to your phone. It seems to be a huge corporeality of work compared to similar processes for Apple tree Watch, Wear Os or Fitbit devices, but hopefully Huawei will simplify the process presently.

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Tom's office in the TechRadar team is to specialize in phones and tablets, simply he too takes on other tech like electric scooters, smartwatches, fettle, mobile gaming and more than. He is based in London, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.

He graduated in American Literature and Artistic Writing from the Academy of East Anglia. Prior to working in TechRadar freelanced in tech, gaming and entertainment, and too spent many years working as a mixologist. Exterior of TechRadar he works in film every bit a screenwriter, director and producer.