Into your usual reports and exports, in the usual format, under the usual analytics codes. There is no separate watch export, no extra step, and nothing new to learn on the data side. A survey answered on the watch produces the same record as the same survey answered on the phone.

Response timing is recorded as it always is, so duration and time-of-completion analyses work exactly as they do for phone responses.

Two hops, not one

A watch answer reaches you in two separate stages, and only the first is automatic:

  1. Watch to phone. Happens on its own, whenever the two are next together. Nothing is required of the participant.
  2. Phone to server. Happens under whatever upload arrangement your study already uses — Auto Upload, or the participant tapping Upload in the app.

Watch out

A watch answer arriving on the phone does not start an upload by itself. Auto Upload sends a survey the moment it is completed on the phone; an answer arriving from a watch does not trigger it. It waits, and then goes with the next upload that runs for any reason — including the next phone survey completed under Auto Upload.

For a study where participants answer only on the watch, that means nothing reaches you until an upload runs on the phone for some other reason — in practice, until the participant taps Upload. Settle this before you enrol anyone: if the watch will carry most of the answering, make pressing Upload part of the participant’s routine, whichever upload setting the study uses.

Because of that second hop, a watch response can arrive later than a phone response given at the same moment. Over a study day this is usually minutes; for a participant who leaves their phone at home it can be hours. Give it time before concluding something is wrong.

Note

The watch’s own status band says Uploaded once it has handed its answers to the phone. That is the first hop only — it does not mean the data has reached your servers. Read the phone, not the watch, to confirm an upload.

Note

Telling watch responses apart from phone responses is not something the reports do today. We are planning a source field that will, and that may also name the watch model — but it is not built yet, so do not plan an analysis around it.

If the distinction matters to your study, tell us before you start collecting. We would rather work it out with you in advance than reconstruct it afterwards, and knowing that you need it helps us prioritise the field.