If you want to call an Uber, you’ll have to do it from your iPhone — the Apple Watch app was disabled on Monday. Apparently permanently.
Uber gave no reason for the change.
No more Uber for Apple Watch
Uber’s page on the iPhone App Store still references the Apple Watch version of the application. It can even still be installed on the wearable. But opening it just results in the pop-up message, “Please switch to the Uber mobile app. We no longer supporting [sic] the Apple Watch app. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
While Uber didn’t give a reason for ending support for the wrist computer, it’s likely there weren’t enough users to justify the expense of keeping the software updated.
That’s not to say there aren’t plenty of Apple Watch wearers — there are more than 100 million of the devices in active use. But it seems most of these people aren‘t calling for an Uber from their wrist. They’re using an iPhone instead.
Maybe there are lots of Watch wearers who are (ironically) only just now discovering there is an Uber app even as they learn it’s been disabled.
