Right now I'm carrying around 2 phones because work requires me to have a blackberry. I am wondering if I had an Apple Watch, could I connect it to the blackberry's wifi tether and potentially leave the iPhone at home or in my locker and receive all my notifications on the watch, through the blackberry?
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Question about wifi usage with Apple Watch
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Apple Watch will remember Wi-Fi your iPhone remember so if your iPhone can log into your Blackberry automatically there's a good chance the watch can too but if it needs to input a password then more likely no.
I hate to be "that guy", but can't you just try it? Even at home I would think you could try it by turning Bluetooth off. Maybe I am missing something. Kind of new to watch. 
Connect your iPhone to the wifi once. Apple Watch will connect to it without the iPhone from then on. The end.
The part that's missing is I don't currently own an Apple Watch, and i was just curious if anyone else has tried something like thisI hate to be "that guy", but can't you just try it? Even at home I would think you could try it by turning Bluetooth off. Maybe I am missing something. Kind of new to watch.
Read this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204562 and this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205547
Ok so after reading those I'm confident it would work, but it would end up burning more battery using wifi instead of Bluetooth. And in that case it's probably not worth getting the watch
It'll hang on to bluetooth well past the point where anything actually works. At some point it eventually gives up then tries WiFi. You need your phone to connect to the same network first and on the 2.4GHz band. If your phone connects on the 5GHz band it won't work.