Hi All,
I am still sporting an Apple Watch Series 0 connecting to an iPhone 6s+ both running the latest iOS and watchOS. I have a question regarding how the Apple Watch and iPhone communicate to each other over wifi when on the same network that I hope someone can help answer.
My house has quite thick walls so there are areas where the bluetooth connection to the iPhone is poor and the watch has to use wifi. There are also areas where the wifi signal is poor and therefore the watch may disconnect from wifi and then re-connect (all without a bluetooth connection being available).
I live in the UK and I'm not on EE Mobile which means that the Apple Watch always uses my phone for a connection to make a phone call over the carrier network (there is no support for Wifi Calling using connected iCloud devices).
Using a bluetooth connection to the iPhone this works flawlessly on my watch and I can make calls.
When my bluetooth connection is poor the watch jumps onto wifi and again I can make calls and the connection to the iPhone is fine (tested by pinging the iPhone from the watch).
If the watch becomes disconnected from wifi and then reconnected a few minutes later (all without bluetooth being available) the watch will work fine and wifi services i.e. Siri etc will be available but it is hit and miss whether or not my watch actually reconnects to my iPhone (again, checked by pinging the iPhone from the watch) and as such I may or may not be able to receive and make calls using my carrier. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
I hope I've explained the above scenario clearly and what I'm trying to understand is how the watch and iPhone communicate to each other when solely using wifi. Can they lose contact and reconnect purely using wifi? I've demonstrated that this happens sometimes but not others and I trying to understand the conditions for this? Is this issue specific to the Series 0 (poor wifi and perhaps a bit too old) and therefore a Series 3 would resolve this (I don't want to pay for the cellular version ideally though).
I hope someone can help with the above and clarify for me.
Thanks in advance,
Justin
I am still sporting an Apple Watch Series 0 connecting to an iPhone 6s+ both running the latest iOS and watchOS. I have a question regarding how the Apple Watch and iPhone communicate to each other over wifi when on the same network that I hope someone can help answer.
My house has quite thick walls so there are areas where the bluetooth connection to the iPhone is poor and the watch has to use wifi. There are also areas where the wifi signal is poor and therefore the watch may disconnect from wifi and then re-connect (all without a bluetooth connection being available).
I live in the UK and I'm not on EE Mobile which means that the Apple Watch always uses my phone for a connection to make a phone call over the carrier network (there is no support for Wifi Calling using connected iCloud devices).
Using a bluetooth connection to the iPhone this works flawlessly on my watch and I can make calls.
When my bluetooth connection is poor the watch jumps onto wifi and again I can make calls and the connection to the iPhone is fine (tested by pinging the iPhone from the watch).
If the watch becomes disconnected from wifi and then reconnected a few minutes later (all without bluetooth being available) the watch will work fine and wifi services i.e. Siri etc will be available but it is hit and miss whether or not my watch actually reconnects to my iPhone (again, checked by pinging the iPhone from the watch) and as such I may or may not be able to receive and make calls using my carrier. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
I hope I've explained the above scenario clearly and what I'm trying to understand is how the watch and iPhone communicate to each other when solely using wifi. Can they lose contact and reconnect purely using wifi? I've demonstrated that this happens sometimes but not others and I trying to understand the conditions for this? Is this issue specific to the Series 0 (poor wifi and perhaps a bit too old) and therefore a Series 3 would resolve this (I don't want to pay for the cellular version ideally though).
I hope someone can help with the above and clarify for me.
Thanks in advance,
Justin