It appears that you can be connected to bluetooth, but phoneConnected will return false unless you open up the Connect app and wait for the watch to sync/connect to the app. You can even access Weather and phone notifications with phoneConnected returning false, so then what does this value actually correspond to?
It just means you're connected to the Connect app :/. There are obviously certain things you can't do unless you're connected to the app, like syncing and getting the most up-to-date daily suggested workout…
So looks like I have to run the app in the background 24/7 or my watchface will assume the phone is disconnected
Well, like I said, even native watchfaces don't distinguish between "no phone…
All I want to do is check the status of the phone connection, but I guess you can't do that
