In this guide, we will show you the steps to remove the phone disconnected icon from your Galaxy Watch. While users generally have their smartwatch connected to their phone, but there are still a few users out there that don’t do so every time. And for the time your watch isn’t paired with your device, you will be constantly reminded of the same.
There is a persistent icon appearing on your watch’s ome screen that notifes you that your is phone is no longer connected with your watch. While this wouldn’t lead to an major issues as such, but still it is a UI element whose removal will be more than welcome. So in this guide, we will show you the steps to remove the phone disconnected icon from your Galaxy Watch.
Remove Phone Disconnected Icon from Galaxy Watch 1&2
If your watch runs on TizenOS, then you could easily carry out this task using the steps listed below:
- Launch the Galaxy Wearable App on your phone
- Then go to Settings > Notifications and scroll to the bottom.
- Now turn off Show Status of the watch. That’s it.
Remove Phone Disconnected Icon from Galaxy Watch 3/4/5
If your watch is running wearOS, then the rpcoess isn’t as simple when compared to the Tizen counterpart. In this case, you will have to root your watch, decompile the SecClockworkSysUi.apk and tweak the basic_clock_comp_indi_disconnected.webp [this is actually the ‘disconnected icon’ file with a size of 52 x 52 Pixel].
There are quite a few risks involved in this and the process is still a work in progress [though near about completion]. We will update this section as soon as we ahcive success and more importantly in a easy to execute environment because in the current scenario, the steps to remove the phone disconnected icon from your Galaxy Watch 3/4/5 are quite complicated. So we will streamline the process and post it here at the earliest.
allan
So when is the solution coming. I am still waiting. I hate the connected Icon and would not have bought the watch 4 if I knew!