When I look at the glance that shows airplane mode, sleep and the sound bell plus ping, sometimes I see a green cloud! What does this mean?
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Can someone explain the green cloud?
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When you've lost connection to Bluetooth it hooks up to wifi.
This makes sense as my phone is in my car and I am indoors and so the watch is must be connected to my WiFi network
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I personally think that it is in place for future implementation of wifi calling without your phone being nearby.
I've left my phone in the car before (connected to 3G) and gone into a building where my watch has connected with this 'cloud' - to me that would make sense it meant the watch was connected to the phone over the Internet but when I try making calls this is not the case.
The cloud seems to appear when the watch is connected to wifi regardless of whether the phone is nearby or not.
I've left my phone in the car before (connected to 3G) and gone into a building where my watch has connected with this 'cloud' - to me that would make sense it meant the watch was connected to the phone over the Internet but when I try making calls this is not the case.
The cloud seems to appear when the watch is connected to wifi regardless of whether the phone is nearby or not.
WiFi calling on the watch without a phone is working now.
First, you need to be on a carrier that supports WiFi calling. T-Mobile, Sprint, and recently AT&T work. Then, go into your phone's settings, and under Phone, turn on "Calls on Other Devices." Then make sure that inside that option it is enabled to make calls when the phone is not nearby. By default, it will turn on calls only when the phone is nearby.
After that, you are set. When the watch is on WiFi, you can make and receive calls. The phone can be off.
Thanks for this. I am in the UK and my carrier does not support WiFi calling. My "calls on other devices" on the Phone only lists my Mac, iPad and MacBook. All clear to me now!
It does not explicitly list the watch. When I first switched it on, it was set to just do calls when the phone was nearby. But, it had a button to enable the full WiFi calling capability.
Here's a screen shot from the Phone settings that shows when the watch is fully enabled to make WiFi calls. Notice the text below the "Allow Calls on Other Devices" is slightly different after the pure WiFi calling is enabled.
Thanks for the info'. Are you in the US or UK? I don't think that WiFi calling is available in the UK. At least not with my provider
If I'm correct, EE is the only carrier with Wi-Fi calling support in the UK.
Yea, just EE in the UK so far. I'm Three and they have a Wifi Calling app, no idea why they don't just use the native iOS Wifi Calling though!!!
Remember that in 2.0 there is FaceTime audio. I use this all the time without my phone being nearby but still connected to wifi (green cloud).