Watch doesn’t need cellular if phone is close by or watch connected to wifi

 

you still don’t get it. phone/watch key works by BLUETOOTH not cellular.

 

substitute card or watch or phone for PHYSICAL KEY. if you only have the latter you’re ALSO kinda screwed if you lose it with no backup.

but keep those false strawmen coming.

also, no one’s doing a road trip across the u.s. without a phone.

 

Jill may be an android user

 

Right

Iphone

 

Hey, I resemble that remark 🤣

I think Jill just selectively chooses not to understand. No other explanation unless you live in a cave....

 

or do too many gummies.

 

My AppleWatch (cellular) has been gradually morphing into a primary device the past couple years. Leave iPhone at home all the time. Curiously.... when I erased my iPhone to send it to Apple for repair I no longer had access to my credit cards with AppleWatch, nor receive text. Still make and receive calls. AppleWatch is not as independent as I thought.

 

interesting . Lots of people are unaware there is Apple Watch and Apple Watch with cellular.

Apple Watch with cellular the battery will drain quicker than Apple Watch.





^^. Our Apple Watch cellular and our Apple Watch. (Cool fact: all higher end Apple Watches are cellular)

 

You mean people like you. Smart watches have had cellular going back to 2015. But that is not the topic of discussion here, it's about using your watch as a key to open and drive a vehicle (Tesla in this case), but you keep for some reason deflecting to cellular for some reason

 

you do not need a phone or wifi or cellular or bluetooth to use an apple watch to pay for stuff. it uses NFC and basically acts as a credit card. it might be that if a merchant doesn’t support apple pay it doesn’t work.

 

It's as simple as this for a Tesla. You have 5 options: Smart-phone and Smart-watch (Apple watch for now), as well as these options:


So if you are a technophobe, you can buy one of the above options, and it takes about 5 seconds to pair with your vehicle. I personally think we have discussed this to death. Hopefully we can move on from smart watches and cellular

 

because you probably added the card initially via the phone and mirrored your phone wallet to the watch.

You can add a card directly on the Apple watch, and it should persist and survive a phone erase. Easier to do it on the phone for obvious reasons, but you can manage cards independently via the watch.

 

Also, Jill probably uses a blackberry, having finally upgraded from a Palm Pilot 😉

 

I actually owned one of these it was pure trash couldn't do anything useful. We've come a very long way.