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Where are my 3 Dots
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The watch should not be in airplane mode, just the phone. Only turn wifi off on the watch.
Option 2 is turn everything back on and leave the house without the phone.
‘’Your watch will use BT to talk to the phone. It knows your known wifi networks and will use those next, last option is cellular and it takes a minute to connect.
Option 2 is turn everything back on and leave the house without the phone.
‘’Your watch will use BT to talk to the phone. It knows your known wifi networks and will use those next, last option is cellular and it takes a minute to connect.
Last thing is to make sure you have an active plan. Ha. when You swipe up to control center on the watch the cellular status will be at the top when it’s active regardless of face. The explorer face will show dots too.
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You may need to add the cell dots as a complication. I don’t have an Ultra so can’t say for sure.
The Cellular icon in the control center will be GREEN when connected to a tower. Then if you have a face that supports the signal strength (it looks like you are running) they will show up. If the cell signal icon in the Control Center is not green no red dots.
Watch connects to the same WiFi your phone does. Shutting your phone off won’t disconnect the watch from WiFi.
Blue on the wifi icon means it is turned on and connected. The green phone icon at the top of control center also indicates that you are connected to your phone (If you just turned it off, it'll probably take a minute or two to figure out the connection was dropped.)
Tap the wifi icon to turn it off (it will then be gray) while also having the phone turned off.
The watch will do leaps and bounds to never use cellular (Probably due to carriers pushing for this, but also for battery life.) If there is a hint of a bluetooth or (known) wifi connection nearby it will refuse to attempt to connect to cellular.
Tap the wifi icon to turn it off (it will then be gray) while also having the phone turned off.
The watch will do leaps and bounds to never use cellular (Probably due to carriers pushing for this, but also for battery life.) If there is a hint of a bluetooth or (known) wifi connection nearby it will refuse to attempt to connect to cellular.
Wayfinder in his example will show them as well. Explorer is the other one from previous watches.
Yep, that’s the only time I see the cell connection, on that watch face, and only when my phone is not with me. I do a daily exercise walk and I leave my phone at home and when I use that watch face the dots are there. If you’re near a WiFi network or your phone the watch will default to those.