My Apple watch does not connect to wifi when out of Bluetooth range

Mine is working fine now, too. I checked my router and there is the Watch, connected. It only connects to wifi if Bluetooth on the phone is turned off, but it can be useful if, like me,you don't carry you phone round the house with you and the bluetooth range doesn't cover the whole house. Unfortunately, it does not seem to pick up the wifi automatically when you are out of bluetooth range.

I don't know what I did to get it working, I did not disconnect from the network. I just switched off the wifi and bluetooth on the phone, and restarted the phone and Watch, then turned wifi back on again. Worked for me!

If Apple Watch and iPhone are on the same WiFi network (look at you routers) but can't connect each other, turn off WiFi on you iPhone. Wait some second. Turn WiFi on again. Wait some second. Open Apple Watch App on your iPhone and Select "General" "About". Now AW and iPhone are cennected over WiFi.

Sometimes it help if you turn on and turn off the flightmode on the Apple Watch.

i got a case where the Apple

Watch loose the Bluerooth connection to my iPhone 5S every pair of seconds. After turn on and turn of the flightmode, connection is stabe again.

So the same is to the WiFi Connection. So it looks like a bug in watchOS

Thanks for this. My work network, does not have the option to select between 2.4 GHz vs 5 GHz. When I forgot the network on my 6+ then manually connected to the network, it finally connected to the work network. I tried forgetting and reconnecting several times by choosing the network, and it didn't work, but manually selecting "Other" did it for me.

Thanks

Hi,

I also noticed that Apple Watch OS 2 will not connect to my wifi router when I'm not broadcasting its name (SSID) as i prefer to put the name and the password to access my wifi network on new devices manually. This is a custom setup therefore it will not apply to most users, but this should be fixed as all works well on all other devices currently connecting to my wifi router.

I provided the feedback to Apple.

Other than that, my problem was that making sure that you are connection to 2,4G antenna and retyping your password in you phone should do the trick.

Regards,

M

This worked a treat for me.

The best way to test this is to ping your iPhone with the Bluetooth switched off. This wasn't possible before I re joined my wifi network. Now it will ping my phone through wifi. Result!

OK. perhaps i got a solution in my case. What did not tell: i got a wifi with 2 access points to increase the range for my wifi.

it looks like the iphone i permanent switching the access points if it is on some places. So i do some fine tuning for sending range of the access points and it seems to be work much better.

I turned off bluetooth and my Watch immediately said it was disconnected. What am I doing wrong? The Watch does not indicate whether it is connected to wi-fi or not or say which network it is connected to. My phone is connected to my home wifi network.

JimRobertson wrote:

Next step will be to find out if I could have answered the call on my watch. What would you predict?

Hi Jim

If your carrier supports Wi-Fi calling and that feature is enabled on your iPhone and Apple Watch, then, under the latest software versions, you could have answered the call on your watch.

On your iPhone, go to: Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling > enable Wi-Fi Calling on This iPhone.

On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > Phone > enable Wi-Fi Calls.

More information:

Use Apple Watch without its paired iPhone

Make a call with Wi-Fi Calling - Apple Support

Yeah, it helps to forget the password, but i have to do it again and again. Using WLAN in the office i have to do it every day, also at home. Please fix this bug.

This method worked for me too. It was straightforward to do.

Once I reconnected my phone to the wifi network, i was able to turn off the bluetooth on the iPhone and the watch was still able to send messages, and I could dictate to Siri and use the watch remote app to control iTunes on my iMac. Magic!

Thanks a lot, this helped here too. But had to make sure to re-enter password when reconnecting to my WiFi net. So I had to connect to "other" network when in wifi settings and fill in the network name, encryption type and password, otherwise iPhone would have used password from keychain and that would´t have solved the issue. (Wonder if there´s an easier way? Anyway it worked.)

sometimes it works. Sometime it does not. But in every case Apple Watch and iPhone are connected to the same Wifi (look at my route setting and let it show me current connection). So it could be in your cases Apple

Watch is connected to your Wifi but not connected to the iPhone. You can not see on the Apple Watch if it is connected to the WiFi. You have to check it on the Router.

SO i think is not connection problem by the Apple Watch to your Wifi. It could be a connection Problem to the iPhone OVER WiFi. Looks like a bug on iOS or Watch OS.

I've tried everything I've found to do but my watch will not automatically connect to wifi. If I turn bluetooth off on my phone it connects fine so it's not a 2.4 or 5 issue. I've paired and unpaired, dropped network settings - everything I've read in all the articles to do but still when I'm home on wifi and move out of bluetooth range my watch will not switch to wifi...again it does connect to wifi if I manually turn bluetooth off on my phone. Is anyone else having this issue? Running ios2