I have an Apple Watch cellular but not hooked up to a cellular plan. So essentially it is working as a non-cellular model.
If I am at home, but I leave my phone in my house and go out in my backyard with my watch, I can't really take calls on the watch, since it is far from the phone and the bluetooth signal is weak. Still connected, but weak. However, my wifi is strong in my yard. But the only way to get my watch to actually connect and use the wifi is to shut off bluetooth on the watch forcing it to disconnect from the phone.
This way I can make good quality phone calls with the watch using wifi calling. However, this doesn't seem to me to be the way Apple intended. It just seems like too much of a manual process and hassle to do this all the time if I get near the edge of the bluetooth signal from my phone.
Is there a better way to manage this?
Then there is this:
In cellular settings on my iphone (AT&T), under wifi calling, I have wifi calling on. But below that setting is another setting labled "Allow wifi calling for other devices even when Iphone is NOT nearby." This is off, and even when I turn it on, it just turns itself back off if I leave this menu and come right back. I'm not sure why it keeps turning itself off, but since it is off, shouldn't that theoretically prevent my apple watch from making/receiving calls? It doesn't. I can still make calls with the watch even though this setting is off. My phone wifi is off. So the watch and phone are not on the same wifi network. The phone and watch are not connected via bluetooth either.
So how can I still make calls? Why does this setting keep turning itself off after I turn it on, and behave like its on? My Macbook also offers me to make and receive calls even though it is off.
The other setting called "calls on other devices when near iphone and on wifi" is switched off, yet when I am one menu level up from it, it shows on.
The whole calls on other devices has always seemed to me to big one big sloppy mess that apple made. Very unclear and has never seemed to work as intended.
Am I missing something?
If I am at home, but I leave my phone in my house and go out in my backyard with my watch, I can't really take calls on the watch, since it is far from the phone and the bluetooth signal is weak. Still connected, but weak. However, my wifi is strong in my yard. But the only way to get my watch to actually connect and use the wifi is to shut off bluetooth on the watch forcing it to disconnect from the phone.
This way I can make good quality phone calls with the watch using wifi calling. However, this doesn't seem to me to be the way Apple intended. It just seems like too much of a manual process and hassle to do this all the time if I get near the edge of the bluetooth signal from my phone.
Is there a better way to manage this?
Then there is this:
In cellular settings on my iphone (AT&T), under wifi calling, I have wifi calling on. But below that setting is another setting labled "Allow wifi calling for other devices even when Iphone is NOT nearby." This is off, and even when I turn it on, it just turns itself back off if I leave this menu and come right back. I'm not sure why it keeps turning itself off, but since it is off, shouldn't that theoretically prevent my apple watch from making/receiving calls? It doesn't. I can still make calls with the watch even though this setting is off. My phone wifi is off. So the watch and phone are not on the same wifi network. The phone and watch are not connected via bluetooth either.
So how can I still make calls? Why does this setting keep turning itself off after I turn it on, and behave like its on? My Macbook also offers me to make and receive calls even though it is off.
The other setting called "calls on other devices when near iphone and on wifi" is switched off, yet when I am one menu level up from it, it shows on.
The whole calls on other devices has always seemed to me to big one big sloppy mess that apple made. Very unclear and has never seemed to work as intended.
Am I missing something?
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