Wait which story are you trying to spin. You wanted to use your watch with a "flipphone"
sic and again these are you exact words from
Post #29
I covered the basics of the Family Setup and the Apple link in
Post #38.
Let's try this again in simple terms. You can't just have your relative add your Apple Watch which you want to be cellular connected without it being paired to an iPhone (Android will not work) directly and share the iPhone's phone number or with Family Setup on their plan for your watch to have it's own phone number if they add a cellular plan during initial Family Setup or later from that specific iPhone.
You completely lose your cellular plan if you then choose to pair your Apple Watch with a cellular plan to your non cellular iPhone SE since your watch must be unpaired from your relative's iPhone Family Setup or your watch must be erased in stand-alone mode. My first link in
Post #53 above was and is where you can find the features that you lose or the subset of functions you get if you pair your Apple Watch to your non cellular iPhone SE and operate your watch away from your iPhone.
Dave
My flip phone is not relevant to the discussion, your first link has nothing to do with the Family Setup plan, you might be correct but until somebody actually signs up for this we won't know, currently this is what Apple writes on their website:
* A cellular plan isn't required to set up an Apple Watch for a family member, but is necessary for some features.
That is on the Family Setup link, maybe they mean you can set up the Apple Watch, get the basics working but not a Family Setup cellular connection, perhaps but why even include that on the Family Setup page. Maybe they mean you can add Family Setup to your watch from an unlimited data plan that qualifies, pair the watch to an Iphone not connected to that account but lose some features, those are the features in question, we know what features are lost with the non Family Setup accounts.
Until that clears up, here is what we know, if you have a friend or relative willing to allow it, you can have them pair an Apple Watch to their Iphone and you get a unique number and many of the data features, not all, for about $10 bucks a month.
If you want you can then have a flip phone and an Apple Watch but again that is up to you, you get a mostly data functioning Apple Watch without the need to purchase an Iphone, you could pair it up with two cans and a string if you so wish.
Update and then Apple writes this: If your iPhone cellular provider supports Family Setup, you can add the watch to your plan. If your carrier doesn’t support it, you might be able to use
an alternative carrier. Then you can
set up cellular on the watch later.
How can you use an alternative carrier when none of the service companies provide an Apple Watch only data plan? And how would it work, for example, let's say your Iphone uses Company X, they don't support Family Support, an alternative carrier does, T Mobile, how could T Mobile activate your watch for Family Setup when they are not the provider for your Iphone?
They could just turn on the E-Sim, right? But what would that have to do with Family Setup, that would be a stand alone Apple Watch data plan, maybe that is where Apple is headed but it currently makes no sense to say you can use an alternative carrier.
