# Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert — user reviews > 255 indexed App Store user reviews of Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert by FRE STUDIOS LLC, rated 4.20/5 from 515 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phone-buddy-phone-lost-alert/id1451559391/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phone-buddy-phone-lost-alert/id1451559391.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 360 · 4★ 48 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 25 · 1★ 53 ## What do users think of Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Alerts you before you leave your phone behind - 👍 Useful feature that should be built into Apple Watch - 🚀 Effective at preventing lost phones - 👍 Customizable alert settings - 👍 Reliable in most cases - 👍 Great tech support **Cons** - 🐛 Random false alerts even when phone is nearby - 🔋 Drains Apple Watch battery significantly - 🐛 Inconsistent connectivity and disconnection issues - 🐛 Stops working after updates or restarts - 🐛 Overlapping UI elements on Apple Watch - 🔋 High battery consumption on both devices **Commonly reported bugs** - Alerts not working as expected - Disconnection issues between phone and watch - App crashing or becoming unresponsive - Compatibility issues with newer iOS and watchOS versions **Most requested features** - Ability to pause/disable alerts when at home - Option to customize alert sound and vibration - Improved location tracking accuracy - Automatic reconnection after device restarts - Integration with Apple's Find My app ## Newest reviews (14 of 255) ### 4/5 — Notifications *2026-04-22* Notifications settings need more options. For example the duration of notifications and the delay of notifications after the phone gets disconnected. I am getting the notification are 20 seconds after the phone is disconnected, and there is no way to shorten it. ### 4/5 — 有中文版吗？？？ *2026-03-26* 有中文版吗？？？ ### 3/5 — Not bad could be better *2026-03-23, version 7.6.1* I’ve used this app for years. Problem is when my watch lets me know I left my phone I’m 2 blocks down the road. So I tried distance alerts. It goes off constantly sometimes when my phone is beside me. Then I look and distance alerts is off. I didn’t turn it off. I use it but could be better. ### 4/5 — Учтите *2026-03-19* Приложение рабочее на watch is 26.4, но есть важный нюанс о котором никто не написал - на часах все время будет висеть точка в том месте где обычно красный индикатор пропущенного уведомления. То есть по факту вы не будете знать что есть непрочитанные сообщения или пропущенные звонки пока приложение активно. ### 3/5 — Great When It Works… *2026-02-11, version 7.6.1* This app does exactly what I wanted: something that would alert me when I leave my iPhone behind. The problem — and it’s a big one—is that the app will randomly turn off the “lost phone” alert, making the app useless, or at something one cannot rely on (ie, useless). ### 2/5 — Might be helpful *2026-01-12* Not at all sure that this newly acquired app is working effectively. **Developer response:** Hello. Sorry to hear you may be having issues. can you email us at support@fre-studios.com to see if we can help! Thanks for trying Phone Buddy ### 4/5 — plz update *2025-12-01, version 7.6.1* please update this app ### 2/5 — バッテリーの減りが… *2025-09-29* 機能はきちんとするんですがバッテリーの減りが使う前と比べて2.五倍ぐらい早く減ります…これさえ無ければ良かったのですが残念です ### 4/5 — I hope there is a language option, I want a Chinese version. *2025-09-25, version 7.6.1* I hope there is a language option, I want a Chinese version. ### 3/5 — Always running *2025-09-11, version 7.6.1* Technically, the app works just fine for “phone left behind” alerts on the watch. What I didn’t know is that the only way it can work is for it to constantly be running on your watch - not just in the background, but actively running. Bad for battery life, and also there’s an animated purple “active app icon” at the top of your screen at all times. I wish I had known that before spending the five dollars to purchase this. ### 4/5 — Works as advertised *2025-09-02, version 7.6.1* While I have gotten some false reports of missing phone so far it hasn’t missed when I actually left the phone behind. I would like it disabled when I am in my house and on home network this is not a show stopper. ### 1/5 — Draining Battery *2025-08-15, version 7.6.1* Drained Apple Watch Se 2 battery %10 per hour. That is too much and not acceptable. Requested refund. ### 2/5 — 결국 배터리고장으로 센터행 *2025-08-07* 아슬하게 버티던 내 와치가… 이어플 설치이후로 배터리고장으로 입고되어버렸슴다… 이앱때문만은 아닐수도 있겟지만 암튼 그기점으로 훅갔습니다ㅠ ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2025-07-31, version 7.6.1* Left my phone behind at work and somebody took it. Too bad this app decided to fail me again. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 最近エラーが多くなった *2026-08-16* 両方とも最新にアップデートしたら　両方とも持っているのにアラートが頻繁に出て困っている ### 1/5 — Dos'nt work on apple watch *2026-06-15* Not usable. Spend much hours, but not possible to get sound alerts on apple watch. Konfigaration is confusing. Not very logical. And no german location since years, because German customers second class? Lost money! **Developer response:** hey there, sorry to hear the configuration was not straightforward. we are updating the app and will include localization in German as part of the next release. ### 1/5 — Uygulama saate yüklenmiyor *2026-04-15, version 7.6.1* Uygulama saate yüklenmiyor ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work. *2026-04-02* Doesn’t work. Constantly looses pairing with watch so it can’t alert your phone. Garbage, useless product **Developer response:** Hey there, sorry to hear about your poor experience using Phone Buddy. Can you email support@fre-studios.com so we can review this case in more detail. we have a major update coming in a few months so we’d like to ensure these issues are addressed. ### 1/5 — Never works *2026-03-22* I purchased this because I wanted to get an alert on Apple Watch if I leave my iPhone in car and move away. It was ok first time when I set it up, but never works later for one or the other reason. Completely unreliable. ### 1/5 — False alarm all the time *2026-01-24, version 7.6.1* I bought so many apps, and this is the worst app I have ever experienced, my phone and watch are on my hands and triggers alarms several times in the 1st day of install. The Bluetooth signal is 100% why it triggers the alarm? I was driving and it triggered alarm and it made my wife so mad. I am a software engineer for over 30 years, can you work with me to fix this app? I need this app so I don’t lose my iPhone. It’s very annoying for false alarms, this app not really difficult to do right? Just check the Bluetooth signal strength and.. ### 1/5 — アプリをバックで常に動かしてないとダメ *2025-12-26* Watch側も、アプリを常にバックで動かしてないと通知してくれないです。 バックで動いてると、Watchの真ん中上にアイコンが常に表示されてしまうので、私的には使えませんでした。 ### 1/5 — Not good *2025-10-24, version 7.6.1* Eats a lot of watch’s battery ### 1/5 — Stop working with iOS 26 *2025-10-03, version 7.6.1* Stop working with iOS 26 ### 1/5 — Good, when it works *2025-09-05* This would be a good app if it was reliable. Unfortunately it is not. The developers are quick to respond when a problem arises but it would be a lot better if it had no problems. Currently I have my phone in my hand and my watch tells me it cannot connect. If the problem does not clear itself I will be removing the app and accepting a loss. This is not the sort of app that can afford to be so flaky, it needs to be 100% reliable. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — No more forgotten phone *2026-01-27, version 7.6.1* This actually should be a feature that Apple bills into the phone and the watch from the factory. It’s too bad you have to buy another application for five dollars, but it’s gonna be worth it to not forget my phone realize that I don’t have it when I’m halfway out of town. ### 5/5 — Finally *2026-01-24, version 7.6.1* I have been looking for an app like this for 15 years. For someone who loves to leave their phone in odd places this app works like a leash. It Better then Find My by apple because it’s instantaneous. ### 5/5 — Fantastic App *2026-01-17* one of the most important applications out there to keep your phone safe ### 5/5 — Exactly what I was looking for! *2026-01-11* This app works great. When I had a cellular plan on my Apple watch it would let me know it I left my phone behind. Since going non cellular with the watch, this replaces and greatly improves the functionality of separation alerts. 10/10. ### 5/5 — Clutch!! *2025-12-26* It syncs up your watch and phone so if you leave any one behind and you can change the requirements like blue tooth strength complete disconnect etc anyways if you’re out and about it will alert you if you leave your phone or watch behind which can prevent theft and just not paying attention sometimes I like to place my phone down a lot and it’s worth it ### 5/5 — Наконец-то я нашел его!! *2025-10-07* Отличное приложение. Покупал за 450 рублей. Стабильно работает. Можно настроить радиус действия. А самое главное: оно не выедает батарею на часах и телефоне. Пользовался Mobeleash, но там автономность часов падала на половину и телефон подъедало. Из минусов: русского нет. Надо немного помучиться с настройками. Но оно того стоит ### 5/5 — Feature packed app *2025-06-26, version 7.6.1* I'm glad I tried this app especially when it offered more and detailed features. ### 5/5 — Must Have *2025-04-09, version 7.6.1* If you own a  WATCH and 📲 ITS A MUST‼️ This is like having Safari,Google,GPT Ai,Maps,G.Maps,Yahoo,Spark,etc among the Best‼️🙌🏽 ### 5/5 — Works great! *2025-04-04* This app worked better than I expected! I have a iwatch series 10 that is supposed to alert me if I leave my phone behind and it worked 2 times out of many that I tested that feature. so it was unreliable and made me not want the watch at all because that’s the only reason I bought the watch! This app make me want to keep the watch and not worry if I leave my phone behind! Thank you to this company that made this app. Apple should pay you for saving their iwatch quality and reliability. ### 5/5 — Not very happy *2025-03-01* When I first set up my phone Buddy it was great. Something changed and it switched to being a lost watch alert. Not giving my watch that I left my phone behind alert but ringing the phone which I obviously couldn’t hear since I left it behind. Phone Buddy says to adjust settings on the watch with its teeny tiny fonts not the phone which is far easier to see with its larger fonts. Hopefully I can correct the change back to a lost phone alert --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*