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What to Do if Your Apple Watch Disconnects From Your iPhone
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I had this happen too and leads to my confusion of the Apple Watch connect to the iPhone thru "WiFi AND Bluetooth."
My Apple Watch connects to my iPhone thru Bluetooth only, Bluetooth + Wifi, but not wifi only.
I've had a weird issue where mine won't turn off do not disturbe mode sometimes based on my phones schedule. I have to manually go in and turn it off or open the do no disturbe section of the apple watch app on my phone.
Anyone else had this issue?
Anyone else had this issue?
An article like this would be more useful: http://www.cultofmac.com/322404/apple-watchs-digital-touch-has-more-colors-than-you-know/
I also noticed using AirDrop while having an Apple Watch, makes it harder to connect with the person trying to send it.
Does this site get paid directly from apple to post these infomercials? Serious question. Really!
Would it be possible to get those instructions for turning the phone off and on, but in bullet point form (and preferably in their own article)?
I'm finding them difficult to follow in their current format...
I'm finding them difficult to follow in their current format...
Posts like these are a lot more useful than those annoying "how to choose your laptop/idevices" that keep popping up every so often
For those of us sitting on the fence but appear to be leaning in towards getting a watch, does the watch automatically reconnect to Bluetooth when you are not on a wifi network with no fuss?
This may sound like an odd question, but my garmin has to buzz to announce a lost Bluetooth connection and it drives me mad, so much so I'm ignoring buzzes and missing alerts...
This may sound like an odd question, but my garmin has to buzz to announce a lost Bluetooth connection and it drives me mad, so much so I'm ignoring buzzes and missing alerts...
The iPhone Bluetooth has had issues in the past with constant connectivity and battery drain. Keeping my phone plugged in and fully charged at my desk while at work.
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Is it strange for you to criticize someone for having an objective opinion? Pretty tough when seemingly every 8 out of 10 MacRumors articles are about Apple Watch. Just cause it interests you doesn't mean it should for everyone else who could care less about this product. Some balance on this site wouldn't be a bad thing.
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Is it strange for you to criticize someone for having an objective opinion? Pretty tough when seemingly every 8 out of 10 MacRumors articles are about Apple Watch. Just cause it interests you doesn't mean it should for everyone else who could care less about this product. Some balance on this site wouldn't be a bad thing.
I agree, MR shouldn't become an Apple handbook for how a device works. It's pure filler as far as I can see.
I disagree, MR is about Apple news, up and coming products, speculation (often crazy) about new designs, concepts etc. It shouldn't turn into a user manual for Apple products which it has started being since the Watch came out.
If it disconects, it means the magic spell is broken and the witchcraft is vulnerable.
Burn it. Burn it with fire.
Burn it. Burn it with fire.
This is my fifth day using the watch and I've had no problems connecting to my phone.
Time to get off the fence and buy, you won't regret it.
Criticize? It seems you must have read a completely different post.
Objective opinion? Not sure how an oxymoron would be helpful.
And so apparently people care since they could care less?
Lots of assumptions and complete opposites in that post that it almost seems to agree more than disagree.
Both my wife and I have lost pair, then battery
On separate occasions both my wife and I have lost pair between our watches and iPhone; it happened to her once and twice for me.
I found if I rebooted the iPhone, communication was restored.
Rebooting the watch did not fix the problem.
I might try the bluetooth or airplane mode tricks on the iPhone to avoid a phone reboot, but I'm sure it doesn't hurt to force a reboot from time to time.
We have observed that the battery starts to drop fast when the watch and phone lose pair in these circumstances.
I have separately walked away from my phone at a location where there was no WiFi; the phone lost pair (red slash iPhone icon) but then restored pair when I got back in BT range of the phone and battery didn't seem to wig out.
On separate occasions both my wife and I have lost pair between our watches and iPhone; it happened to her once and twice for me.
I found if I rebooted the iPhone, communication was restored.
Rebooting the watch did not fix the problem.
I might try the bluetooth or airplane mode tricks on the iPhone to avoid a phone reboot, but I'm sure it doesn't hurt to force a reboot from time to time.
We have observed that the battery starts to drop fast when the watch and phone lose pair in these circumstances.
I have separately walked away from my phone at a location where there was no WiFi; the phone lost pair (red slash iPhone icon) but then restored pair when I got back in BT range of the phone and battery didn't seem to wig out.
I had no idea that random users created and run the site and know what it is and should be. And also feel that discussing what the site is or isn't in random off topic comments of different articles is a good way to provide feedback about it (rather than lets say actually contacting those who run the site or at the very least posting in places that actually deal with user feedback).
