Things Apple Watch can do without iPhone nearby
I keep falling more and more in love with my Apple Watch. When you think you can't be surprised, things happen that leave you speechless.
Walking into work on the night shift, I realized I had left my iPhone at home. The thought that I was going to be disconnected from my family for more than 9 hours came to overwhelm me.
The only device I had on me was my Apple Watch, which is not LTE , and I thought I couldn't do anything with it, but I was wrong.Thanks to the company's WiFi connection, I was overjoyed to see that I could do literally anything with my Apple watch
I'll tell you what you can do with it, without having it connected to the iPhone but to a Wi-Fi network .
Can you use the Apple Watch without the iPhone?:
Seeing the situation I was in, I tried using the Walkie Talkie function of the Apple Watch to communicate with my wife, who also owns an apple watch. I pressed to connect with her and, joy, the yellow button appeared indicating that the person you want to talk to has connected to the Walkie. I pressed it, spoke and my wife answered me right away.
But that's not all. After verifying that the Walkie worked, I tried to send messages and, indeed, it sends them. I also told her that she will send me WhatsApp to see if she received them and, surprise, she received them too.
A joy invaded me seeing the potential of the watch without having to have the iPhone nearby. Simply connected to a Wifi connection, you can do all this that I list below:
- Sending messages.
- Using Walkie Talkie.
- If you have Airpods you can listen to music, radio, Podcast .
- Access and use of maps and all the apps you have installed on the Apple Watch.
- Receive WhatsApp and be able to answer them.
- Make calls.
You can make calls with your Apple Watch without having your iPhone connected to it:
That last thing I mention in the list is the one I liked the most. When I work at night, I talk to my wife before she goes to bed. Thinking that that day we would have to talk through the Walkie Talkie, I came up with the idea of trying to call her.Being able to do everything I have told you before, will you let me call? It was quite a fiasco to see that it would not let me do it, but what about the audio calls by Facetime? Those yes.
Audio calls can be made using Facetime . To do this, you must access the “Phone” app on the watch, click on “Contacts”, search for the person you want to call and click on their name. Doing this, this screen will appear:
Phone contacts on Apple Watch
In it, we must click on the call button and we will see how the option to call by audio Facetime appears. By pressing it, we will call the contact.
Audio Facetime Calls from Apple Watch
Obviously, in order to communicate with the other person using that type of call, your contact must have an iOS device with that feature enabled.
That way I could call her like I did any other night. And thanks to the fact that I had the Airpods in my backpack, I was able to talk comfortably with her without having to bring the watch close to her mouth and ears.
So, if one day you forget your iPhone at home but you have a Apple Watch, it's saved. Using a Wi-Fi connection on the watch, you can do everything.
