Short answer: Still Dock for iPhone and Apple Watch is a companion to Still Dock on your Mac. Install it, sign in with the same Apple Account as your Mac, and it lists every Mac running Still Dock so you can switch that Mac's Dock locks and Stop ⌘Q quitting on or off without walking over to it.
Still Dock for iPhone and Apple Watch is on the App Store, on the same listing as Still Dock for Mac. This guide covers how it works and what you'll need, so you know what to expect.
Each Mac in the list shows the same locks it has in its own menu bar, grouped the same way:
Flip a switch on your phone or your Apple Watch, and your Mac applies it through the exact same code path as its own menu. There is no separate remote logic to get wrong.
Your iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac share Still Dock's settings through your own iCloud account, the same one you're already signed into. If you use two Macs, both show up, and each is controlled independently.
Signing in to a Still Dock account is optional, with Apple or your email. Signed in, your email address goes to the Still Dock server, which checks your plan and keeps a backup of your settings. Which locks are on, your Mac's name and its version still travel only through your own iCloud account.
Turning a lock off asks for Face ID on your iPhone first. If your Mac itself requires Touch ID or its password before unlocking, it still asks there too, on the Mac, the same as if you had walked over and tried to switch it off yourself. The phone only sends a request; your Mac decides.
The Apple Watch app relies on your wrist being unlocked. We haven't yet tested a Watch approving an unlock prompt on the Mac itself, so this guide makes no claim either way about that.
Still Dock for iPhone and Apple Watch is the same either way. A Plus lock switches on from your phone only when the Mac it belongs to has Still Dock Plus. The Light size lock works from your phone, and by Siri, on any Mac running Still Dock. Apple Watch needs Plus, the size lock included.
A request made while your Mac is asleep or busy with an alert waits. One older than 10 minutes is never applied late, so a change you send and then forget about simply expires and never lands on the Mac hours afterward. Your phone tells you if your Mac hasn't answered after about a minute.
Yes. The iPhone and Apple Watch app is on the App Store, on the same listing as Still Dock for Mac.
We haven't tested that yet, so we're not claiming it. The Watch app switches locks the same way the iPhone app does; whether a Watch can stand in for Touch ID on the Mac's own approval step is a separate question we'll answer once it has been tried.
No. The locks travel through the Apple Account already signed into iCloud on your iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac. A Still Dock account is optional: sign in with Apple or your email to keep a backup of your settings, or to start Plus from your iPhone.
Only if you sign in. The locks themselves travel as a small record in your own iCloud account: which locks are on, your Mac's name and its version. That record goes to Apple, and we cannot see it. If you sign in to a Still Dock account, your email address and your settings backup go to the Still Dock server, and it checks your plan. The privacy policy lists every request.
Yes. It talks to Still Dock 1.26 or later on the direct download and 1.13 or later on the Mac App Store. The Contents lock only appears for a Mac running the direct download, since the App Store version doesn't have it.
Turning off a Mac's Stop ⌘Q quitting protection from a shared Mac? See stop ⌘Q quitting apps on a shared Mac, from your phone, and for the Mac side of that lock, how to disable Cmd Q on a Mac.