Interesting feature from Yahoo Review

[Uccle]

And that'll mean a lot of people in this board are wrong.

Interesting.

Wow. This is great...even if I was wrong it's worth being wrong if I can use the watch at times without the phone!

 

[kovey]

You mean the people on this forum had misinformation about an unreleased product? Get OUT!

 

[kdarling]

Not quite.

It's not polite to do that without giving details

If you have a better explanation of how SMS Relay works, please share it.

Thanks!

 

[Gav2k]

It's not polite to do that without giving details

If you have a better explanation of how SMS Relay works, please share it.

Thanks!

The text isn't sent to apple then relayed to your phone the direct wifi (Bluetooth wifi combo) is used to send directly to your phone then the phone relays via the network.

 

[lankox]

So if I have different SSIDs for n and b/g and only have my phone connected to the n SSID does this mean that the watch will not connect to the b/g SSID?

 

[samiznaetekto]

How would user know that the watch is still connected to WiFi? There's no WiFi indicator.

 

[kdarling]

The text isn't sent to apple then relayed to your phone the direct wifi (Bluetooth wifi combo) is used to send directly to your phone then the phone relays via the network.

I thought it was like that, too, at first. Early articles read close to that. (Except, Apple says they all have to be connected to the same WiFi network.)

However, many people have reported since then, that you do not have to even be on the same WiFi network for it to work.

Reportedly, once the devices are logged into the same iCloud account and verified locally, SMS Relay works from ANY network.

I.e. after setup, you can then have BT and WiFi turned OFF on the phone, and the phone can even be miles away in another building, yet SMS Relay from a WiFi iPad somewhere else will still find the phone (via Apple servers as I noted).

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Again, this info is from many people reporting this capability. I'm going to try it myself later tonight if I get a chance. Link up an iPhone and iPad, then turn off BT and WiFi on the phone, and see if I can text another phone from the iPad. If anyone else can try it too, that would be great.

 

[bobTX10]

I thought it was like that, too, at first. Early articles read close to that. (Except, Apple says they all have to be connected to the same WiFi network.)

However, many people have reported since then, that you do not have to even be on the same WiFi network for it to work.

Reportedly, once the devices are logged into the same iCloud account and verified locally, SMS Relay works from ANY network.

I.e. after setup, you can then have BT and WiFi turned OFF on the phone, and the phone can even be miles away in another building, yet SMS Relay from a WiFi iPad somewhere else will still find the phone (via Apple servers as I noted).

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Again, this info is from many people reporting this capability. I'm going to try it myself later tonight if I get a chance. Link up an iPhone and iPad, then turn off BT and WiFi on the phone, and see if I can text another phone from the iPad. If anyone else can try it too, that would be great.

I do that all the time. My phone would be dead and I would still be able to text from my iPad because of iCloud. If it is true the Apple watch has a stand alone wifi. There would be no reason for it to not text independently