Cell enabled watch at the edge of phone range

[RH990]

I've been looking around but haven't found a good answer to this one. It's probably simple, just not having any luck.

So I have a watch with cell service and it's also hooked into my wifi. The problem I have is that the watch refuses to let go of the phone and switch over to one of those sources unless I'm a considerable distance from my phone and anything I was doing, i.e. streaming, talking on phone, etc., has long since stopped working. When I go for a run my music stream breaks up about the front door or so and then I literally have to be past the neighbors house before the watch will start streaming again. Is there an easy way to tell the watch to give up on the phone and switch over to another source for data?

 

[chabig]

Open the control panel and turn off wifi.

 

[RH990]

Tried that, no luck. Started up some music and walked to the end of the driveway. Music totally cut out. Turned off wifi but the watch still showed it was connected to the phone and still no music streaming.

 

[chabig]

To force the watch to disconnect from your phone, turn off bluetooth on the phone. With that off, and wifi off on the watch, the watch will have no choice but to use its cellular radio for data.

 

[Itinj24]

There’s a Bluetooth toggle in the Watch settings if you don’t want your phone disabling Bluetooth. Should be in the control center along with WiFi in my opinion.

 

[chabig]

There’s a Bluetooth toggle in the Watch settings if you don’t want your phone disabling Bluetooth.

That's true, but he can't listen to music while running if he turns off bluetooth on the watch.

 

[Itinj24]

That's true, but he can't listen to music while running if he turns off bluetooth on the watch.

Silly me... Carry on lol