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Get G Suite apps on your mobile devices
You can access the G Suite apps that your organization uses directly from mobile devices, such as your phone, tablet, or Wear OS by Google smartwatch.
You can access the G Suite apps that your organization uses directly from mobile devices, such as your phone, tablet, or Wear OS by Google smartwatch.
What you'll need:
Get G Suite on your phone or tablet
The following G Suite services are available on mobile devices.
Note: You can also access G Suite services such as Forms, Groups, and Sites from a browser on your mobile device.
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Gmail: Send professional emailExample:
Read and send email when you're away from your desk. |
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Calendar: Online calendars designed for teamsExample:
Running late for a meeting? Use Calendar to reschedule or let people know you’re on your way.
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Cloud Search: Search for company content across your Google productsExample:
Find contact information for colleagues.
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Contacts: Online address bookExample:
Quickly send messages or calendar invitations to groups of people you contact the most, without entering their addresses individually.
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Hangouts Chat: Chat directly with a co-worker or communicate with your entire team at onceExample:
Create a room to brainstorm ideas with your team.
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Hangouts Meet: Hold video meetings with people inside or outside your organizationExample:
Quickly join a meeting by clicking the shareable URL.
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Drive: Online file storageExample:
Visiting a customer offsite and need a PDF or video? After you store a file in Drive, you can easily pull it up anytime on your mobile device.
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Docs: Create and collaborate on documents in your browserExample:
Never lose track of talking points for your next meeting. Jot down notes on the way. Or, say your notes and reminders instead.
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Forms: Create and analyze surveys and quizzes in your browserExample:
Manage event registrations, create quizzes, analyze responses, and more.
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Google+: Online communities designed for businessesExample:
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Groups: Manage and participate in online discussionsExample:
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Keep: Create, share, and work together on notes and listsExample:
Create to-do lists and set reminders so you don't miss a thing.
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Sheets: Create and collaborate on spreadsheets in your browserExample:
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Sites: Create and collaborate on impactful websitesExample:
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Slides: Create and collaborate on presentations in your browserExample:
Make last-minute changes to your project presentation, even if you don’t have your computer with you.
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Voice: Get a phone number for calling, text messaging, and voicemail — all on one app that syncs across your devicesExample:
Use your free number to text, call, and check voicemail, and manage and organize all of your conversations from the one app.
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Get G Suite on your smartwatch
Start each task yourself, and let your phone or watch lead you through automated steps to complete the process.
When you’re ready, you can access your organization’s G Suite apps.
If necessary, later you can unregister your account.
Add the Wear OS app to your Android or Apple® iOS® mobile phone to connect the two devices.
- Get the Wear OS app:
- For Android phones, go to the Google Play store.
- For Apple iOS phones, go to the iTunes store.
- On your Android or iPhone, tap Wear OS
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- Tap Set it up.
- If you see a prompt to Turn on Bluetooth and Location, tap Turn on.
- With both your phone and your smartwatch in front of you, connect your smartwatch and your phone:
- On your phone, tap the model name of your smartwatch when you see it in the list.
- Tap to check the box to allow the watch to access your contacts and history.
- Tap Pair to connect both devices.
.After connection completes, the system checks for updates.
After you connect your smartwatch and your phone, you can copy your G Suite account from your phone to your smartwatch.
- On your phone, tap Next to confirm to copy your Google Accounts to your watch. You’ll be able to skip individual accounts later, if you prefer.
- On your phone, when prompted, enter your screen lock PIN or device password.
- On your phone, tap Copy.
The watch receives the copied account.- On your phone, enter your password and tap Sign in. (If multiple accounts were copied, you can tap Skip account instead, until the correct account shows on the screen.)
- On your watch, choose options by responding to the prompts. (You can bypass options by tapping Skip or Deny.)
- Stay connected to Wi-Fi: Tap Connect.
- Sync your contacts: Tap Next.
- Allow Wear OS to make and manage phone calls: Tap Allow.
- Allow Wear OS to access your contacts: Tap Allow.
- Check and sync your watch with your phone’s calendar: Tap Next.
- Allow Wear OS to access your calendar: Tap Allow.
- Allow your watch to display notifications sent to your phone: Tap Next and turn on Wear OS notifications by tapping Allow.
- When you see the notice saying you’re all set, tap Done.
Your account is now copied from your phone to your watch.
After you copy your G Suite account to your smartwatch, you can register your smartwatch for mobile device management.
- On your smartwatch, get the Google Apps Device Policy app:
- If you just copied your Google account to your smartwatch, the watch displays the Device Policy screen now.
- If you get a notice that account action is required, accept the notice and go to the Google Play store to get the app.
- Follow the steps to install and set up the device policy app.
- On your watch, tap Device Policy
to open the installed device policy app.
- Tap Continue to register your account, as prompted.
- Scroll and review the list of policies your administrator has applied, setting a password if requested.
- Tap Activate.
to open the installed device policy app.When you see the status message that the app is running and the device has successfully synced with the server, the process is complete. You can see and access your organization’s apps on your smartwatch. Tap any app to open and use it.
If you leave the organization, you can remove the registration and account:
On your smartwatch, go to Device Policy 
Some smartwatches can receive notifications for calendar events, messages, emails, and more. To learn how to set up notifications, check your smartwatch's documentation.
