Since I installed watchOS 7 (now 7.2 beta, I always keep it current but this was happening with 7.0 and 7.1 release versions so I decided to see if the Public Betas fixed it) on my Apple Watch Series 5 GPS + Cellular, I have noticed problems with cellular connectivity.
Every morning when I leave my house for my run, after I get out of range of my iPhone and my home WiFi, Siri tells me “Siri Not Available — Your Apple Watch is not connected to the Internet” if I ask it to do anything. When I check, the cellular indicator in Control Center is green, and I have anywhere from one to four dots depending on where I am. But, any music I am streaming will end after the songs that were presumably loaded at my house are done, it won’t load any more music that’s not already on the Watch, and as I wrote, Siri doesn’t respond.
To fix this, I try tapping on the Cellular indicator in Control Center, turn off Cellular for a minute or two or more, and then I turn it back on. This does not always work. Sometimes it takes multiple tries for it to work again, other times it works the first time, once in a while it doesn't work at all. Today, it took multiple tries to get it to work and it finally did. Half an hour later, I tried to send a message to my wife and Siri had trouble. When tried to get Siri to send her a message again, it told me Siri Not Available, and a few minutes later the music I was streaming stopped. Losing the connection while I was out after I had regained it was a first.
I unpaired and re-paired the Watch earlier this week in hopes of fixing this. I even went so far as to have it remove the cellular account and then add it again as part of the process. Since I still had the problems on the following days that clearly didn’t fix it.
When I check Cellular Status in Settings, it says No Connection.
When my wife and I go for a walk together, she brings her iPhone, I don’t bring mine. Several times during the walk, my Watch asks me if I want to join her Hotspot. It never did that before I was having this problem.
Right now, I’m sitting at home, I turned off WiFi on the Watch, and turned off my iPhone. The Cellular indicator is green and shows two dots. Siri Not Available.
Has anyone had this problem? I’ve searched for it online but haven’t found much. While it could be a hardware problem, I’m suspecting it’s watchOS 7. However, if it is, it doesn’t seem to be affecting many people or they haven’t noticed it.
Things I've tried include turning cellular on and off both with WiFi off and left on, unpairing and re-pairing the Watch, removing and adding the cellular account, and resetting network connections by going into iPhone > Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings while also force restarting the Watch (hold Digital Crown and side button for ten seconds until the Apple logo appears). There was one thread on here about something similar but none of that helped me (and at the moment I can't find it).
Every morning when I leave my house for my run, after I get out of range of my iPhone and my home WiFi, Siri tells me “Siri Not Available — Your Apple Watch is not connected to the Internet” if I ask it to do anything. When I check, the cellular indicator in Control Center is green, and I have anywhere from one to four dots depending on where I am. But, any music I am streaming will end after the songs that were presumably loaded at my house are done, it won’t load any more music that’s not already on the Watch, and as I wrote, Siri doesn’t respond.
To fix this, I try tapping on the Cellular indicator in Control Center, turn off Cellular for a minute or two or more, and then I turn it back on. This does not always work. Sometimes it takes multiple tries for it to work again, other times it works the first time, once in a while it doesn't work at all. Today, it took multiple tries to get it to work and it finally did. Half an hour later, I tried to send a message to my wife and Siri had trouble. When tried to get Siri to send her a message again, it told me Siri Not Available, and a few minutes later the music I was streaming stopped. Losing the connection while I was out after I had regained it was a first.
I unpaired and re-paired the Watch earlier this week in hopes of fixing this. I even went so far as to have it remove the cellular account and then add it again as part of the process. Since I still had the problems on the following days that clearly didn’t fix it.
When I check Cellular Status in Settings, it says No Connection.
When my wife and I go for a walk together, she brings her iPhone, I don’t bring mine. Several times during the walk, my Watch asks me if I want to join her Hotspot. It never did that before I was having this problem.
Right now, I’m sitting at home, I turned off WiFi on the Watch, and turned off my iPhone. The Cellular indicator is green and shows two dots. Siri Not Available.
Has anyone had this problem? I’ve searched for it online but haven’t found much. While it could be a hardware problem, I’m suspecting it’s watchOS 7. However, if it is, it doesn’t seem to be affecting many people or they haven’t noticed it.
Things I've tried include turning cellular on and off both with WiFi off and left on, unpairing and re-pairing the Watch, removing and adding the cellular account, and resetting network connections by going into iPhone > Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings while also force restarting the Watch (hold Digital Crown and side button for ten seconds until the Apple logo appears). There was one thread on here about something similar but none of that helped me (and at the moment I can't find it).
