Can you add a cell signal stength complication to face?

[LGIR627]

I could have sworn I've seen some watch faces that have the 4 dots showing cell signal strength, but I just looked around and the only way I could check was swiping up? I tried a couple different faces.

 

[mk313]

I that no it's the explorer face that has the cell strength

 

[ragman]

I that no it's the explorer face that has the cell strength

I signed up for the ATT plan , which is working nicely, however, the cell strength indicator does not appear on the Explorer watchface.

 

[twennywonn]

I signed up for the ATT plan , which is working nicely, however, the cell strength indicator does not appear on the Explorer watchface.

Its kinda a bummer but it only shows if you are not near your phone.

 

[hlfway2anywhere]

Signal strength is in the control center as well just a general note.

 

[perezr10]

It won’t show up if you’re connected to your phone or WiFi.

 

[urbanwoodsman]

You can’t be connected to wifi and your phone has to be away from you or in airplane mode. I was confused as well. It took the watch about a minute to figure everything out and go from the red X to the green status dots. This is definitely not how I thought all this would work. I assumed you’d be able to turn off Bluetooth/WiFi on your phone and the watch would connect to LTE. Also, I figured you’d be able to turn off Bluetooth/WiFi on the actual watch as well to save battery life. I guess that’s not how any of this works.

 

[TheColtr]

You can’t be connected to wifi and your phone has to be away from you or in airplane mode. I was confused as well. It took the watch about a minute to figure everything out and go from the red X to the green status dots. This is definitely not how I thought all this would work. I assumed you’d be able to turn off Bluetooth/WiFi on your phone and the watch would connect to LTE. Also, I figured you’d be able to turn off Bluetooth/WiFi on the actual watch as well to save battery life. I guess that’s not how any of this works.

Bluetooth and WiFi will save a lot of battery over LTE. That’s why Apple is really trying to keep the watch off of LTE as much as possible to preserve battery life. It’s more of a backup that you use sperringly, rather than something that is running in the background 24/7. I too was disappointed when I found out the watch wasn’t connected to LTE all the time.

 

[dave006]

Well you can have cellular active all the time but your battery just won't last very long. Just disable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on your watch to test but you will want to switch back very soon as you watch your watch battery drain.

Dave