Do you have to have an iphone for it to work?

Must you have an iphone to operate the watch?

Posted on Sep 1, 2015 11:27 PM

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Sep 2, 2015 6:01 AM in response to birdgirl15

The Apple Watch must be within Bluetooth range of the iPhone with which it is paired, to use most of its functions.


From the manual, p.19:


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

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