Straight talk on apple watch

I have ST and bought an AppleWatch off Amazon. Paired it to my phone and it worked just fine.

StraightTalk does not support Apple Watch, so having a cellular watch won't provide any benefit. Assuming you can text from your iPhone on StraightTalk, an Apple Watch will also send and receive texts as long as the paired iPhone is near the watch.

kyndale wrote:

I have ST and bought an AppleWatch off Amazon. Paired it to my phone and it worked just fine.

Of course the watch works paired to your phone. What you didn't say you were able to do, and surely you could NOT do is set up a cellular plan for your watch with Straight Talk, which is the subject of this thread. And that is because Straight Talk does NOT support Apple Watch. It's not required to have a cellular Apple Watch, nor is it required to have a cellular plan for Apple Watch to pair and work with iPhone. It just means you need to have your paired iPhone with you for the watch to function.

Hellstorm99 wrote:

So… I am considering getting an Apple Watch, I use StraightTalk as well, but I NEVER go anywhere without my phone. So I would get one without cellular anyways.

And for extra measure:

Things I do with my GPS ONLY Apple Watch, and you can too, assuming you have a recent iPhone that will pair with an Apple Watch:

• It tells time, date, day of the week. 

• Every alarm, alert, notice that happens on your iPhone, appears on your wrist, where you can acknowledge it, dismiss it, etc…, without needing to take your iPhone out of your pocket or purse.

• I personally like the iPhone 3rd party “Alarmed” app (http://yoctoville.com), and I can even reset an alarm to 15 minutes in the future from my wrist. 

• Weather on your wrist. 

• MyRadar 3rd party app will even give you a radar weather image.

• MyRadar and WeatherBug 3rd party apps will send weather alerts to your Apple Watch (rain/snow starting/stoping, lightening warning, etc…)

• Answer your phone calls on your wrist. 

• Silence your call ring tone on your wrist by pressing the digital crown. 

• Hang up on spam calls on your wrist. 

• Make phone calls from your wrist (can be GPS only via your nearby iPhone, or the cellular model when away from your iPhone). 

• Send & receive iMessages on your wrist. 

• Send & receive TEXT/MMS on your wrist (requires the iPhone to be powered on, and accessible via Bluetooth, WiFi or the Internet for cellular models). 

• Use Apple Pay from my wrist, and all I have to do is a quick Double-Click on the oval side button.

• Use store rewards cards stored in my Apple Wallet, by again a quick Double-Click on the oval side button, and scroll down to the specific store reward card.

• Say “Hey Siri, 14 and a half minute timer” from your wrist. 

• With a 3rd party garage door add-on from MyQ, you can open and close your garage doors from your wrist (I do this when going for a walk; and I can open and close them from anywhere I have internet access; so I’m not range limited). 

• Say “Hey Siri, remind me when I get home to do xyz”, and you get a geolocation reminder. useful when out for a walk or leisurely bike ride, or even while driving. 

• Say “Hey Siri, message my wife/husband/Susan/George/etc…”, and the Apple Watch will prompt you for your message (assumes you have identified wife/husband/Susan/George in your contacts). 

• You can check your calendar from your wrist. 

• If you need to take a picture with your iPhone where you cannot see the screen, such as a picture of your back, you can use the Apple Watch Camera app as a remote viewfinder. 

• If you go to the ocean (say on vacation), you can get a 3rd party app that tells you where the tide cycle is, on your wrist). 

• You can set the Apple Watch to remind you to wash your hands when you return home.

• When washing your hands, you can set an option that automatically starts a hand washing timer for 20 seconds.

• You can use your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac.

• You can use your Apple Watch to unlock your iPhone when you are wearing a mask.

These are the most common things I actually use my Apple Watch for. There are many other features I do not use. I also track my exercise, but I am not hard core.

Before I got my Apple Watch, I was not sure I needed one. I got the Series 4, when they offered Fall Detection and ECG. 

After getting the Apple Watch, I found all of the above useful things, and I now could care less about ECG and Fall Detection. 

If my Apple Watch was lost, stolen, or broken, I would order a replacement as fast as possible, as I would miss it so much. 

I have a GPS only model, as my iPhone is always with me, so I can do everything the cellular model can do, only using the iPhone to relay phone calls and provide Internet access when away from home. And the GPS only is less expensive. 

My wife has a cellular model, because she does not want to carry her purse on walks, and is not the kind of girl that puts her iPhone in her back pocket. 

OH YEA!  Since my Wife got her Apple Watch, we have been able to iMessage each other reliably, as she never had her iPhone where she could hear new iMessage notifications. The iPhone was in her purse in the kitchen, or in her purse in a noisy supermarket, etc… Now with the Apple Watch on her wrist, she sees all my iMessages, and can answer all her phone calls. The Apple Watch is a great invention for women everywhere. 

From hUse your Apple Watch without your iPhone nearby - Apple Support

2. To receive SMS, MMS, or push notifications from third-party apps on your cellular Apple Watch, your paired iPhone must be powered on and connected to Wi-Fi or cellular, but it doesn't need to be nearby. You also need to be signed in to iMessage on your iPhone to use Messages on your watch.

The part about being signed into Messages applies to GPS only Apple Watches as well if you want to sen and receive SMS/MMS TEXTs

They didn't activate it on Straight Talk network, because they can't activate it on Straight Talk. What they're doing is using their Apple Watch as a GPS only watch. Apple Watch doesn't have to be set up with a cellular plan, even one which is cellular. They have to have their paired iPhone with them for the watch to function.

So… I am considering getting an Apple Watch, I use StraightTalk as well, but I NEVER go anywhere without my phone. So I would get one without cellular anyways.

Am I understanding this correctly, because I appreciate being informed by those who know before dropping that kind of money:

I won’t be able to connect cellular, even if I purchased one with cellular capability (not interested in taking calls on my wrist anyways). That I get, so skip that.

Will I be able to send and receive texts on the watch, as

I always have my phone with me and they will be paired?

Everything will just be run through my phones cellular network like any other Bluetooth device (for the most part)? Notifications, calendar…. And now that makes me think… Apple car play. If my is phone plugged into car stereo, will the watch be connected to the stereo via the phone too?

I always wear my watch facing in, but that is for another discussion.

Thank you,

…. I don’t know what this is going to show me as since I don’t think I have ever posted here. Anyways, Thank You.

Hellstorm99 wrote:

So… I am considering getting an Apple Watch, I use StraightTalk as well, but I NEVER go anywhere without my phone. So I would get one without cellular anyways.

Then you can get a GPS only and save money.

I use a GPS only and my iPhone is either nearby (arms length away), or it is in my pocket. I have never had any problems using my Apple Watch and getting the benefits I want from it.

I won’t be able to connect cellular, even if I purchased one with cellular capability (not interested in taking calls on my wrist anyways). That I get, so skip that.

Well you can take calls on your wrist. And make calls, and send/receive messages, etc... EVERYTHING you can do with a cellular Apple Watch you can do with the GPS only AS LONG AS your iPhone is nearby.

Will I be able to send and receive texts on the watch, as

I always have my phone with me and they will be paired?

Apple iMessage works just fine on the Apple Watch.

You can send/receive traditional TEXT/MMS messages on your Apple Watch, but your iPhone is the relay device.

From: Use your Apple Watch without your iPhone nearby - Apple Support

2. To receive SMS, MMS, or push notifications from third-party apps on your cellular Apple Watch, your paired iPhone must be powered on and connected to Wi-Fi or cellular, but it doesn't need to be nearby. You also need to be signed in to iMessage on your iPhone to use Messages on your watch.

Everything will just be run through my phones cellular network like any other Bluetooth device (for the most part)? Notifications, calendar…. And now that makes me think… Apple car play. If my is phone plugged into car stereo, will the watch be connected to the stereo via the phone too?

Apple CarPlay, no. The iPhone pairs to CarPlay, not the Apple Watch.

I always wear my watch facing in, but that is for another discussion.

If you mean with the watch face on the inside of your wrist, then that may or may not affect how well the Apple Watch is able to monitor things like your heart rate, VO2, Temperature, etc... You will have to evaluate that for yourself.

Thank you,

…. I don’t know what this is going to show me as since I don’t think I have ever posted here. Anyways, Thank You.

As this is your first time, for future reference, it is generally better to start your own new post, so that replies to the original post and yours do not get intermixed and confusing.

So how did you activate it? I just don’t understand how to get it to be connected.

Thank You BobHarris. Sounds like the gps only is the way I am going then. I’ll just have to get used to wearing the watch face outwards is all. Appreciated.

The Apple Watch may work on you inside wrist, but you will have to experiment to be sure.

What kind of watch are you using? Like what series