The Apple Watch is a perfect companion for our iPhones. It will allow us to find out everything that happens on our smartphone just by taking a look at our wrists. But What can we do with our Apple Watch if we do not have our iPhone nearby?
It is already known that we can, for example, go for a run without our iPhone and the Apple Watch will continue to be very accurate when measuring the distance and calories consumed during our physical activity, although this ability has to be “learned” after we have gone out several times to do sports with our iPhone on top. In this post we are going to talk about what What the Apple Watch can do connected to a Wifi network (Logically, telling the time is one of them).
Send and receive messages
Like an iPad or iPod Touch, the Apple Watch can receive messages without being connected to an iPhone. This means that we can leave the iPhone charging in one room, go to the other end of the house and we will continue to receive messages as long as we are connected to a WiFi network. For calls, FaceTime as conventional, we will need the iPhone connected.
Send and receive drawings and digital touches
There are no surprises in this regard after knowing the previous point. We can send drawings and digital touches connected to a WiFi network without the need to have the iPhone nearby.
Create reminders
We can create reminders without having our iPhone connected, only using the WiFi network, but they are managed in a different way. The normal thing in other devices is that they upload them to iCloud so that they are available for all our devices, but the Apple Watch will store the reminders locally to sync with the iPhone when connected to it.
In any case, the Apple Watch will notify you when the time that we previously configured for the reminder arrives, even if we have not synchronized it with the iPhone.
Create calendar events
In the same way that we can create reminders, we can also create calendar events. They will be stored locally until it is synchronized with the iPhone, at that moment they will be uploaded to iCloud and, if we do not synchronize it, it will notify us when the time comes.
Receive answers to basic questions
We can ask Siri many basic questions and, in many cases, it will be able to give us an answer even if we do not have the Apple Watch connected to our iPhone. Questions like:
- What is the capital of germany?
- How many people live in San Diego?
- When was Leo Messi born?
- What is the definition of hypotenuse?
Check the weather, sports, movies and the stock market
As with the basic questions and in the same way in which we ask the iPhone, we can also check the weather, sports, movies and the stock market using a WiFi network. Questions like:
- What movies are you making tonight?
- What is the weather like in Madrid?
- How is the Valencia game going?
- How much are Apple shares?
It's a remote control
Although we do not have the iPhone connected to our Apple Watch, we can use it as a remote control for the Apple TV, as long as we have configured the Apple TV and there is a WiFi network nearby.
This shows that the Apple Watch can do more things than we had originally imagined and all this in its first version. What will it be capable of in the future?
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I want to know if the Apple watch can be a remote control of the computer? For presentations, or if there is an app that works in this way with the iPhone for the computer. I appreciate an answer!