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The Bay Waves app and chesbaywaves.com

Bay Waves is run by one person. If something is broken, looks wrong, or you have a question about the app or a subscription, send a message below and it comes straight to me. Leave your email if you would like a reply.

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Common questions

The forecast looks wrong or out of date

Everything here is computer model output, and models can be wrong, late or missing. The data status page shows when each product last updated. If one has stopped, it is usually back within a few hours. Always check the official NWS marine forecast before you launch. If a number looks wrong at a particular spot, tell me where and when: that is the most useful message I get.

What Bay Waves Plus includes

In the iPhone app, one saved spot is free. Bay Waves Plus, a monthly or yearly subscription, adds more saved spots and puts your saved spots on Apple Watch faces. The forecasts, the map and the downwind runs are free for everyone, with or without it.

Restoring a purchase on a new phone

Open the Spots tab, tap Get Bay Waves Plus beside Saved, then tap Restore Purchases. Use the same Apple ID you bought it with.

Cancelling, or asking for a refund

Subscriptions are handled by Apple, so I cannot see or change them.

• To cancel: on your iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions, then Bay Waves Plus. Cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends or it renews.
• For a refund: request it from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

If a subscription lapses, your saved spots are kept, not deleted. The extra ones are locked until you subscribe again.

My saved spots are missing

Saved spots are kept on your devices, not in an account, because there are no accounts. In the app they live on your iPhone and your watch. On the website they live in your browser: on an iPhone, the website saved to the Home Screen and the same site in Safari keep separate lists, so a spot saved in one does not appear in the other.

Setting up the Apple Watch complications

1. On your iPhone, open the Watch app and install Bay Waves from Available Apps, if it is not already on your watch.
2. Open Bay Waves on the watch and star the buoys and spots you want. The face editor offers whatever is starred, or everything if nothing is.
3. Touch and hold the watch face, tap Edit, swipe to the complications, pick a slot and choose a Bay Waves buoy or spot.

Your saved spots appear in that list while Bay Waves Plus is active.

Privacy

The app has no accounts, no ads and no tracking, and nothing about a purchase reaches this site. The details are in the Terms & Privacy.

Supporting the site

The site and the app are free, with no ads. If you would like to help with the running costs, pick up a shirt.

Last updated October 6, 2026.