Cellular question

[Woodcrest64]

How the Cellular feature work on the Apple watch?

Do you have to enable it manually? If so, does this kill the battery even if you're not making calls on it?

Or does cellular work like on the iPhone, only is really on when Wifi and the iPhone are out of range?

 

[Neodym]

Gets activated when the Apple Watch gets out of range of the connected iPhone both via Bluetooth or WLAN. Definitely a significant impact on battery (depending on reception, cell changes, active calls etc.), but still good for a couple of hours (guesstimate: ~8hrs).

 

[Woodcrest64]

Gets activated when the Apple Watch gets out of range of the connected iPhone both via Bluetooth or WLAN. Definitely a significant impact on battery (depending on reception, cell changes, active calls etc.), but still good for a couple of hours (guesstimate: ~8hrs).

I appreciate that. I’m asking cause my wife is a teacher and goes outside for half an hour without her phone to supervise the kids on the playground at lunch . I was curious how that works and the impact it had on the battery. 90% she is on wifi or with her phone.

 

[Neodym]

1/2 an hour should be negligible. And if she’d have WLAN reception on the playground, the Watch would keep connected and not switch to LTE at all (however, a weak WLAN signal may well have a similar impact on battery as a proper LTE connection).