So you are trying to send instant message to parent iPhone app and still receiving “Payload could not be delivered”? This happens only if one of those two thing occured:
1. there is no connection to watch (you should check session.reachable in WCSession)
2. your iPhone app is not responding with didReceiveMessage:replyHandler:

Second one is the most probably so how to fix it? There are 2 “didReceiveMessage” methods in WCSessionDelegate protocol, to make it work, you need to implement second one:

- (void)session:(WCSession *)session didReceiveMessage:(NSDictionary *)message replyHandler:(void(^)(NSDictionary *replyMessage))replyHandler;

so just make it look like:

- (void)session:(WCSession *)session didReceiveMessage:(NSDictionary *)message replyHandler:(void(^)(NSDictionary *replyMessage))replyHandler {
    NSLog(@"iPhone: didReceiveMessage %@", message);
    replyHandler(@{@"command": @"reply"});
} 

You just need to respond with NSDictionary. And it works. Really.