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apple watch question

If we already have a plan with our phone with verizon and we decide to buy an apple watch from the apple website and get the one with GPS + Cellular, will we need to add that new apple watch to our verizon plan so the cellular data can work on the watch?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 16, 2020 9:32 PM

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Posted on Jun 16, 2020 9:42 PM

You have the choice of getting a GPS only Apple Watch, which will do Everything a Cellular model will do as long as your iPhone is nearby. You can do this with a cellular Apple Watch without a contact as well.


If you want to leave your iPhone at home and still get/make phone calls, message, access the internet, etc..., then you would get a cellular Apple Watch and have sign up to share your iPhone’s phone number. The cellular carrier must support this Sharing and for this service they charge a fee. In the U.S. the change $10 per month added to your iPhone monthly bill.

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Jun 16, 2020 9:42 PM in response to aarti96

You have the choice of getting a GPS only Apple Watch, which will do Everything a Cellular model will do as long as your iPhone is nearby. You can do this with a cellular Apple Watch without a contact as well.


If you want to leave your iPhone at home and still get/make phone calls, message, access the internet, etc..., then you would get a cellular Apple Watch and have sign up to share your iPhone’s phone number. The cellular carrier must support this Sharing and for this service they charge a fee. In the U.S. the change $10 per month added to your iPhone monthly bill.

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