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Going out without my phone

Eilene

Eilene

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Jun 28, 2007
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Do I need to turn off WiFi on my phone before I go out in order for my watch to make or accept a call?
[doublepost=1506377103][/doublepost]I also missed a call & it didn't ring on my watch. My S2 always rang when I got a call. And of course this watch is cellular so it should have rung. Are there any settings to change on my phone or watch to send or receive calls on cellular?
 
You don't need to turn off anything on your phone, just leave the phone. The Watch needs to be in LTE range. If you have no LTE signal you won't be able to make or receive calls. The Watch does not support 3g connectivity. I've noticed when taking calls on my Watch my phone displays that I missed the call that I took on my Watch. Not sure why, must be a software thing in iOS. I suppose it makes sense as I didn't take the call on my phone, but it's confusing because I didn't miss the call either.
 
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Not too sure I understand the question. You can make or take a call from your watch any time. If you have your phone nearby you want WiFi and blue tooth on so that, even though you’re Talking over your watch, it’s being routed through your phone for maximum energy savings. If you want to try to mess around with your LTE watch, I guess you could turn off WiFi and blue tooth (or better yet, the phone entirely) and mess around. BTW, you won’t see the LTE bars unless your watch is attached to LTE and not your phone.
 
I just didn't know if you need to turn off wifi on my phone so it is connect to AT&T & therefore my watch will be also.
 
DynaFXD said:
Not too sure I understand the question. You can make or take a call from your watch any time. If you have your phone nearby you want WiFi and blue tooth on so that, even though you’re Talking over your watch, it’s being routed through your phone for maximum energy savings. If you want to try to mess around with your LTE watch, I guess you could turn off WiFi and blue tooth (or better yet, the phone entirely) and mess around. BTW, you won’t see the LTE bars unless your watch is attached to LTE and not your phone.
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Only the Explorer Watch face has the LTE bars. None of the other Watch faces display them that I’ve seen.
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Eilene said:
I just didn't know if you need to turn off wifi on my phone so it is connect to AT&T & therefore my watch will be also.
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You don’t need to do anything other than leave your phone behind.
 
Mine isn't working then. I'm at home now & turned off my wifi on my phone & still no LTe bars on the explorer face. Plus we took the dogs for a walk & it was not working. Very frustrating.
 
so if you put your phone in airplane mode and turn off the wifi router in your house you still done get LTE?

Eilene said:
Mine isn't working then. I'm at home now & turned off my wifi on my phone & still no LTe bars on the explorer face. Plus we took the dogs for a walk & it was not working. Very frustrating.
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richard371 said:
so if you put your phone in airplane mode and turn off the wifi router in your house you still done get LTE?
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I did not turn off the router...but did take the dogs for a walk with no connection to cellular.
 
I wonder if it was latching on to another wifi network somewhere? Do you get the red X? When you are out trying it again swipe up on the control center and see what its connected to if anything?

Eilene said:
I did not turn off the router...but did take the dogs for a walk with no connection to cellular.
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richard371 said:
I wonder if it was latching on to another wifi network somewhere? Do you get the red X? When you are out trying it again swipe up on the control center and see what its connected to if anything?
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I did see the Red X
 
My watch did this on Friday: Apple told me to unpair the phone, force reboot both devices and then re-pair. It worked and I have had no trouble with LTE since.

You don't need to turn anything off on your phone. Just leave it on at home and get out of wifi/Bluetooth range. Confirm you're on LTE by flipping up Control Center and that the antenna icon is green. You'll see green dots above the antenna indicating signal strength.

I hope this resolves your problem! If not give Apple Support a call & they'll get you going.
 
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