How do I fix my series 3 watch to text message when my phone is not close?
Apple Watch
Your watch does not have its own number. It is a clone of your iPhone number. The number you see in your billing is not the phone number of the watch, it is an accounting number that your carrier uses to bill you monthly for the cellular on the phone. That number does not work for anything.
Read the following, especially the footnotes
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205547
For iMessage, make sure your iPhone is signed in to iMessage.
SMS always uses the iPhone, so make sure it can see the internet. iMessage can use LTE data on the Apple Watch, but your iPhone needs to be signed in
A texts message, SMS requires the phone to send.
It did not when I purchased it. It’s fully cellular with its own number that I pay for. It receives but will not send
Have the same issue, doesn’t matter if it’s a iMessage or sms. AW4 here.
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I have series 3 and no matter what I do, I can not send text messages from my watch without my phone. It’s very frustrating, because that’s what I purchased this watch for.
