Trevor Nash wrote:
“Apple Watch uses Bluetooth® wireless technology to connect to its paired iPhone and uses the iPhone for many wireless functions. Apple Watch can’t configure new Wi-Fi networks on its own, but it can connect to Wi-Fi networks you’ve set up on the paired iPhone.
If your Apple Watch and iPhone are on the same network but aren’t connected by Bluetooth, you can also do the following on Apple Watch without iPhone:
Send and receive messages using iMessage
Send and receive Digital Touch messages
Use Siri
Excerpt From: Apple Inc. “Apple Watch User Guide.” Apple Inc., 2015. iBooks.
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You may have just explained something that I thought unexplainable. Earlier this week, I left my iPhone sitting on a desk at a nursing station at one of the hospitals where I see patients. I had to go home to pick up something and didn't realize until I arrived home and picked up what I needed, then reached for my iPhone to call someone about what I'd just retrieved that I discovered I didn't have the phone! (I cannot believe that Apple hasn't found a way to alert users to loss of the BT connection between the client watch and its server phone beyond that tiny "broken phone" icon at 12 o'clock on the watch face that you'll never see until it's too late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)!
At any rate, thinking that perhaps I hadn't set my phone down until I'd arrived home, I used my home's landline phone to call my iPhone, hoping to hear it ringing. That didn't happen, but the following did:
- My watch on my wrist began ringing!
- Within one or two rings, on my landline phone, I heard the voice of a nurse in the hospital 2 miles away answer "Dr. Robertson's phone, Allen speaking."
Until I read your post, I thought there was some impossible way that my phone and watch were still connected by BT, whereas now it seems obvious that because my phone and watch were paired originally on my home WiFi network, my phone was logging on to my home WiFi network. Next step will be to find out if I could have answered the call on my watch. What would you predict?
Thanks so much,
Jim
