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It looks like it also sent a text to his son.
by blang 7y ago
It looks like it also sent a text to his son.
- gesman 7y agoAlso does Apple Watch require ownership of iPhone?
- gowld 7y agoOwnership, yes. Physical presence, not completely: https://www.apple.com/watch/cellular/ https://www.apple.com/watch/cellular/
- abawany 7y agoAs I mention above, the way I did this was to buy a low-cost/locked/unactivated iPhone 6s and paired the watch to it. It thus provides in-home monitoring of such events; I can confirm that it works well since it got inadvertently activated a couple of times (the first watchOS version with this feature seemed to be prone to false positives) and I had to talk to the emergency agent on her behalf to state that everything was ok for now.
- gesman 7y agoCan I have one iPhone (in USA) and two watches - one in USA (me), another in Europe with my dad attached to local European SIM card to call local European number if he falls?
- abawany 7y agoI don't think so unfortunately - the cellular watches are weird in that they must be on the same cellular network as the associated iphone. The recipe I suggested above works with the non-cellular version of the watch and counts on being on the same wireless network as the phone. So imo, you will need one iphone per watch. However, I have been able to get refurbished iphone 6s devices for as little as $60; you probably don't want anything older than 6s as it is the oldest device that can still run iOS 13 and thus future proof for just a little bit.