# Apple Watch as presence sensor? **URL:** \ **Category:** Devices & Integrations\ **Tags:** presence\ **Created:** [October 14, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/apple-watch-as-presence-sensor/101798 "2017-10-14T16:39:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![JDRoberts](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/jdroberts/32/56577_2.png) [@JDRoberts](https://community.smartthings.com/u/JDRoberts)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/apple-watch-as-presence-sensor/101798/2 "2017-10-14T17:03:59Z")
Different things work for different people. The following should be of interest (this is a clickable link) > [@FAQ: The Many Ways of Detecting Presence (2020)](https://community.smartthings.com/t/faq-the-many-ways-of-detecting-presence/51563/): > > Presence, regardless of the device you use, is one of those features that works great for some people, not at all for other people, and is randomly flaky for still others. It’s very much affected by local conditions. So some people will find that phone presence works much better than the SmartThings-branded presence sensor. Other people will find the reverse. Still other people, myself included, find that they have to use a combination of two devices in order to get reliable presence indication. So if this feature tends to work differently for different people, where do you start? 1. Using a Smart Phone as a Presence Indicator Well, since most people who have SmartThings have a smart phone, it’s worth starting there. This method has changed significantly in the change fro… As far as the Apple Watch, series 1 and two don’t have location services. The brand new Apple Watch Series 3 does have location services, but it doesn’t work the same way that a phone does. In order to help preserve battery life, instead of regularly broadcasting its location, the location is recorded internally and is available for query by approved apps. That means that you can use “find my phone” to find an Apple Watch Series 3, but you can’t use Geopresence like IFTTT location. So I’m guessing it won’t work with SmartThings, because you won’t get that “cross the border” Geopresence event. But I haven’t tried it to be sure, I don’t have a series 3 watch myself. [https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8094443?start=0&tstart=0](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8094443?start=0&tstart=0) > Location is only sent when someone requests to see it (it is not transmitted on a regular interval). --- _[View the full topic](https://community.smartthings.com/t/apple-watch-as-presence-sensor/101798)._