How to connect a watch to the Pebble app

From the Devices tab of the iPhone app or Android app, tap the orange + on the bottom right corner of your screen and Add Watch.

Dismiss the pop up, press Add Watch again, then press Connect under your watch name.

You'll then be prompted to pair both on the watch and the phone.

A full iPhone and Android phone walkthrough is available if you need step by step directions.

My watch isn't appearing or connecting after pressing +

Step 1: Remove the watch from the Pebble app (if it's listed)

Head to the Pebble app and remove the watch from your device list if it's already there by pressing the ••• icon and then "remove".

Step 2: Remove the watch from your phone's Bluetooth settings.

Go to the iOS or Android system Bluetooth menu, and forget all Pebble watches. Be sure to Forget your watch in the Pebble app as well. Restart your phone.

Step 3: Remove your phone from the Bluetooth settings on the watch.

Step 4: Follow the steps above to connect to your watch.

My watch still won't connect / needs to be reset

Use this as a last resort if nothing else fixes the problem. First, follow the instructions above to completely remove your watch from your phone (and your phone from your watch).

Hold left button + top right + center right buttons (all together) for 30 seconds or until your watch displays a progress bar. Once it shows the QR code, connect to it using the steps above.

Still having problems? Submit a bug report

If you've tried the right kind of reset for your situation and the issue is still there, the next step is to send us a bug report so we can look into it. A bug report is more useful to us than a support email because it includes the technical context we need (recent crash logs, watch state, app version) automatically.

In the Pebble mobile app, go to Settings → Get Help → New Bug Report. Fill in what's going on and submit. The app attaches the relevant device and watch context automatically. Here are some things to include:

How can I customize my backlight settings?

The four options for backlight settings are:

  • Max Brightness: 100% intensity, no dynamic mode, 5 second timeout

  • Standard: 50% intensity, standard dynamic mode, 3 second timeout

  • Battery Saver: 25% intensity, dim dynamic mode, 3 second timeout

  • Advanced

Advanced allows you to customize your brightness settings completely. You can adjust your intensity, dynamic backlight settings, tap settings, and timeout.

How can I adjust my Pebble Time 2 backlight color balance?

Go to Settings → Watch → Display where you can change your backlight color by pressing Select and dialing in the exact backlight color you'd like.

I'm not getting any vibration for notifications

You've most likely turned on Quiet Time, maybe by accident; holding the Back button for about two seconds from any watch face toggles it by default (this is called a Quick Launch shortcut). The easiest way to tell if you have Quiet Time turned on is the top left corner of all notifications will have a silenced speaker icon.

While Quiet Time is on, the watch also stops lighting the backlight when you flick your wrist. You can override this on the watch under Settings → Quiet Time. The mobile app does not yet have all of the available Quiet Time customizations as the settings on the watch do.

My notifications are not dismissing automatically

By default, your notifications will dismiss from your watch after 15 seconds, showing your active watchface. If your notifications are not dismissing there are two reasons this could happen.

  1. You have Quiet Time turned on (see above) and Notifications set to "On - Persistent"


2. Your Notification timeout is set to "None" under Settings → Notifications

Most users set this to "15 seconds."

My watch vibrated but there's no notification

Many popular faces vibrate and invert the screen when they lose the phone connection, as a deliberate "you've left your phone behind" alert. If mystery buzzes started right after you installed a new face, that's almost certainly why. Some watchfaces vibrate on the hour, too. You could have also set up an hourly vibrate / disconnection vibration in the watch settings (keep reading below).

How can I find great apps + watchfaces for my Pebble watch?

In the Pebble app, you can toggle between watchfaces and apps on the top of the Apps section of the app. Check out Top Picks and Most Loved to see what other Pebble users have on their watches.

There is also a Pebble App Store for the web! Sign in with your Pebble account and you can browse, heart, and even install apps and faces directly to your connected watch. The Spring Developer Contest page is also a great place to explore.

How do I set an hourly vibrate? How can I set a vibration when my Pebble disconnects from my phone?

Both Hourly Notice and On Disconnect can be enabled + disabled on the watch:

On a Pebble Time 2: Settings → Sounds + Haptics

On all other watches: Settings → Vibrations

How can I make the font bigger on my watch?

Notification font size is adjustable: small, medium or large; under Settings → System → Notifications → Text Size. System-wide font sizes are not adjustable, only notifications.

Can I connect my Pebble to two phones?

This isn't possible. Your watch will prompt you to forget one phone before pairing another.

Android shows a permanent "Keeping Pebble connection alive" notification

That's the foreground service Android requires to hold a persistent Bluetooth connection. Just set it to silent notification and ignore it.

What is Quick Launch and how do I use it?

Quick Launch assigns a long button press from the watchface screen to a favourite app, set in the mobile app or Settings → Quick Launch on the watch. Apps can even tell whether they were opened by a single or long press.

How to I change the order of my watchfaces?

From My Watchfaces, hold your finger down on a watchface until it jiggles, then drag it to a different place in your apps list and let go.

How to I change the order of my apps?

Same process as watchfaces. From My Apps, tap and hold to drag.

How do I activate the backlight?

Wrist motion (flicking your wrist toward your face). The motion is a hard flick of your wrist. A simple turn of the wrist will not activate the backlight.

Tapping the screen (double tap or single tap). Only on watches with a touchscreen (Pebble Time 2 and Pebble Round 2). Double tap is default.

Notification arrival. The backlight can be set to flash on briefly whenever a notification comes in.

Manually, by pressing buttons on your watch or via Quick Launch shortcuts you set to a button or wrist gesture.