 <p>You are going to want to change the settings in your plist for the app transport security. Do this in watch extension plist if you are doing the network call on the watch. Here is a helpful <a href="http://www.fiveminutewatchkit.com/blog/2015/6/9/how-to-disable-app-transport-security" rel="nofollow">link</a></p> <p>Also for your url you are going to need to use either http:// or https:// in order for this to work.</p>