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AW Noob Question Part 3

OP, I say the best solution if you are gonna share your Watch is to create a new AppleID so that way there is no way you're calls and messages can ever sync together...fterall, you'll have both your phone and watch on you so you'll want peace of mind knowing it'll never be an issue. creating a new appleid for this purpose is the way.

Even is you could shut off notifications and syncing from the iPhone to the watch it would probably all reset come watchos10 and then watch0s11 and then watchos12..
 
Is like taking an La Ferrari to climb the mountains
Is too complicated for something for something that small
 
darkus said:
Hey everyone, have a very quick and maybe easy question.

Im trying to get an AW8 but dont want to have all my text messages and other notifications on it. I just wanted my music and health data and time, thats it.

It seems that while I can turn off the notifications from coming in, all my texts and other data will forcibly sync onto the watch and be available (not good if I want to let someone borrow my watch for example).

BUT I had an idea. I have my old iphone thats is still on my AppleID. I've wiped all my text messages and other data from it. The iPhone is not on a cellular plan, its just wifi only at this point since its my old device.

Could I pair the AW with that old phone and have it successfully run on my AppleID, sync my health data BUT it wouldn't get my iMessages since iMessage is actually turned completely off on that phone? And it should not get my phone calls, because while its on my apple ID, it doesn't have a cellular plan.

Is this all correct thinking? Maybe someone has experience doing something like this?
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Why don’t you just try it and see if it works? The time and effort to write this post and continue to say “no one is answering my question!!!” seems silly. you could have answered your own question by trying it out.
 
xraydoc said:
Didn’t one of the recent updates add this? I haven’t tried but I think it’s possible.
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So I tried, following these directions.

Delete apps from your Apple Watch - Apple Support

You can manage your Apple Watch apps directly on your watch, or using the Watch app on your iPhone.
support.apple.com support.apple.com

While some apps can be deleted, others can't. Calculator, Calendar, Message, Phone -- these apps I noticed can't be deleted. I didn't scroll around looking through all the apps, but seems like a lot of Apple apps can't be deleted.
 
zerocharlie said:
Why don’t you just try it and see if it works? The time and effort to write this post and continue to say “no one is answering my question!!!” seems silly. you could have answered your own question by trying it out.
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The OP doesn't have the Apple Watch yet...

Night Spring said:
So I tried, following these directions.

Delete apps from your Apple Watch - Apple Support

You can manage your Apple Watch apps directly on your watch, or using the Watch app on your iPhone.
support.apple.com support.apple.com

While some apps can be deleted, others can't. Calculator, Calendar, Message, Phone -- these apps I noticed can't be deleted. I didn't scroll around looking through all the apps, but seems like a lot of Apple apps can't be deleted.
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Correct. Messages cannot be deleted.

Apple has a list of apps that can be deleted here, but it is confusing (and possibly inaccurate). It only lists the new apps that are now able to be deleted in watchOS 9.4 (it doesn't list the apps that were already able to be deleted). It also says Maps can be deleted, but that doesn't seem to be the case for me...that app doesn't have an 'x' when in jiggle mode.
 
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@iStorm is correct, I didn't have the watch yet, hence the question :)

I've now got the Watch to try this idea as an experiment. And guess what, its a SUCCESS! It works, its linked to my account, but I get no phone calls or messages what so ever so far. No messages are sitting on the AW. I can listen to my music on the AW. Health data does sync back to my account, but as you'd expect I have to turn the secondary phone on to connect the two every so often.

I did just try to delete the messages app and @iStorm is correct again, it doesnt work, you cant delete the app.

But regardless for anyone else that wants to try this, it completely works and was a breeze to setup. It didn't seem any different then your standard AW setup.

I'm holding out hope this "major" watchOS10 includes some of this baked in, because I would imagine that amount of granular control would only increase the number of people who might buy one without needing a second phone (me for example:)
 
darkus said:
@iStorm is correct, I didn't have the watch yet, hence the question :)

I've now got the Watch to try this idea as an experiment. And guess what, its a SUCCESS! It works, its linked to my account, but I get no phone calls or messages what so ever so far. No messages are sitting on the AW. I can listen to my music on the AW. Health data does sync back to my account, but as you'd expect I have to turn the secondary phone on to connect the two every so often.

I did just try to delete the messages app and @iStorm is correct again, it doesnt work, you cant delete the app.

But regardless for anyone else that wants to try this, it completely works and was a breeze to setup. It didn't seem any different then your standard AW setup.

I'm holding out hope this "major" watchOS10 includes some of this baked in, because I would imagine that amount of granular control would only increase the number of people who might buy one without needing a second phone (me for example:)
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Glad to hear it worked, but there's something that's been nagging me. The reason why you wanted to do this is that you want to share the watch with someone else, and you don't want them to access your messages. But you also seem interested in syncing the health data collected by the watch. Why? If you let someone else use the watch, then their health data and yours will get mingled together. What's the use of this data?
 
Night Spring said:
Glad to hear it worked, but there's something that's been nagging me. The reason why you wanted to do this is that you want to share the watch with someone else, and you don't want them to access your messages. But you also seem interested in syncing the health data collected by the watch. Why? If you let someone else use the watch, then their health data and yours will get mingled together. What's the use of this data?
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I’m not all that neurotic about the health data or its accuracy. Will I ever go back and look at what I did yesterday? Nope. Will it matter to me that it looks like I worked out twice as much yesterday because 2 people used it? Nope.

I see it as just a nice prospective motivation to do some more workouts
 
darkus said:
I’m not all that neurotic about the health data or its accuracy. Will I ever go back and look at what I did yesterday? Nope. Will it matter to me that it looks like I worked out twice as much yesterday because 2 people used it? Nope.

I see it as just a nice prospective motivation to do some more workouts
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So if you aren't going to look back at your health data, why are you concerned about it syncing? I'm just thinking that there may be more options for setting up the watch the way you want, if you didn't try to sync health data.
 
Night Spring said:
So if you aren't going to look back at your health data, why are you concerned about it syncing? I'm just thinking that there may be more options for setting up the watch the way you want, if you didn't try to sync health data.
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That’s true, I’m not all that concerned about syncing the health data. I really wanted the music on the watch. I just put out the health syncing out there as informational incase someone else wants to do this one day
 
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