Can you still text off your Apple Watch if you don’t have cellular?

Can you still text off your Apple Watch if you don’t have cellular



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Posted on Jan 7, 2020 3:11 PM

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Posted on Jan 11, 2020 4:42 PM

SMS/MMS requires the iPhone for both GPS only and Cellular Apple Watch models. The differences is that the GPS only needs to have the iPhone nearby. For Cellular the iPhone just has to be powered on and connected to the Internet so that the Apple Watch can find it (anywhere in the world) to pass along the SMS/MMS information.


Read the footnotes in this document

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205547


Internet messaging services, such as Apple iMessage just need an internet connect, which could be WiFi for the GPS only models. The Cellular models can just use their cellular data connection.

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Jan 11, 2020 4:42 PM in response to keilah274

SMS/MMS requires the iPhone for both GPS only and Cellular Apple Watch models. The differences is that the GPS only needs to have the iPhone nearby. For Cellular the iPhone just has to be powered on and connected to the Internet so that the Apple Watch can find it (anywhere in the world) to pass along the SMS/MMS information.


Read the footnotes in this document

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205547


Internet messaging services, such as Apple iMessage just need an internet connect, which could be WiFi for the GPS only models. The Cellular models can just use their cellular data connection.

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