in the past you need to turn on the bluetooth on your iPhone. For Apple watch (series 1 and 2)to be connected, to your phone. Now you don’t even need to turn on your bluetooth... I am missing something is this a new technology or something?
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AP with watchos 4, conneted to iPhone even the Bluetooth are off
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The control center does not turn off the bluetooth radio anymore in iOS 11. It only drops connections except a few things like an apple watch. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/20/bluetooth-wifi-not-disabled-ios-11-control-center/
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Apple Watch will also connect to the iPhone over Wifi if Bluetooth is unavailable (usually when you're out of range of the iPhone's Bluetooth).
It is a feature of iOS 11. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi now work differently than in previous releases. "Even when toggled off in Control Center on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 11 and later, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will continue to be available for AirDrop, AirPlay, Apple Pencil, Apple Watch, Location Services, and Continuity features like Handoff and Instant Hotspot."
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Dave
Hmm. Turning off Bluetooth in settings on the iPhone, the Watch should have switched over to Wifi, but it didn't. (though the iPhone did lose connection to it when I did so).
Rebooting the Watch did nothing to correct this.
Series 0.
Anyone else seeing this? (that the Wifi radio has been disabled on the watch?)
Rebooting the Watch did nothing to correct this.
Series 0.
Anyone else seeing this? (that the Wifi radio has been disabled on the watch?)