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I am unable to text my son from my Apple Watch , he has a Samsung watch. I am able to text anyone else without any problems. Any ideas ?

Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 6

Posted on Jun 23, 2020 10:18 AM

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Posted on Jun 24, 2020 5:58 PM

Did your son ever have an iPhone and use iMessage? He may need to deregister himself from iMessages

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/


And on your end, SMS/MMS text messages, always require your iPhone's support, whether you have a GPS only or a Cellular Apple Watch. Where as iMessage and other Internet based messaging apps can use WiFi and Cellular LTE data without needing the iPhone.

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

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Jun 24, 2020 5:58 PM in response to Bigmiriv

Did your son ever have an iPhone and use iMessage? He may need to deregister himself from iMessages

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/


And on your end, SMS/MMS text messages, always require your iPhone's support, whether you have a GPS only or a Cellular Apple Watch. Where as iMessage and other Internet based messaging apps can use WiFi and Cellular LTE data without needing the iPhone.

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

Read the footnotes.

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