How to Connect your Apple Watch to WIFI
Apple watch connects and remains in sync with your iPhone through two mediums: bluetooth and WiFi. It is usually connected through bluetooth. But when the Apple watch is taken out of the range of a bluetooth connection, it turns on the WiFi to remain connected with the iPhone. In this OneHowTo article we will tell you how to connect apple watch to WiFi.
Steps to follow:
The first step to connect your Apple watch to WiFi is to either power off the iPhone or to turn on the airplane mode.
To turn off the iPhone, press and hold the side button. To turn on the airplane mode, go to Glances by swiping op on the face of your Apple watch. Then swipe left till you get 'Settings Glance'. There you will find an Airplane mode icon. Tap on it to turn it on.
The next step is to forget the 2.4 GHz and 5GHz WiFi network on your iPhone.
For this, tap on the Settings icon of your iPhone. Then tap on WiFi. From there go to current WiFi network. Now tap on ‘Forget This Network’. A pop up will appear on your screen. Confirm it.
The Bluetooth in the iPhone should be turned off too.
To turn off the bluetooth, open the settings app of your iPhone. Then go to Bluetooth and simply turn it off.
The next step is to connect your iPhone to the 2.4 GHz WiFi network. Then turn on the bluetooth too.
Now take your Apple watch and turn it on, if you have turned it off or else disable the Airplane mode if you have turned it on.
Unlike the iPhone, you don’t need to turn on the WiFi in your Apple watch. It can detect the known WiFi networks through iPhone and can automatically connect with them.
So, when you turn on the Apple watch you need to check it if it had automatically connected with a WiFi network or not. So, at first take your watch out of the bluetooth range i.e. go at least 30 feet away from your iPhone. Then check the face of the watch. If there is a green connected icon, then your Apple watch is connected to the iPhone via WiFi. But if there is a red disconnected icon then the watch is not connected to WiFi. In such case you have to repeat the steps again.
There is also an alternative way to connect the Apple watch to WiFi.
Bring your iPhone and Apple watch close to each other. Turn on the bluetooth and WiFi of your iPhone. Then restart your iPhone and Apple Watch. This will connect the watch to WiFi.
Now you know how to add WiFi to your Apple watch, you may be interested in knowing how Apple watch calculates calories too.
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