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Title: Everything the Apple Watch can do without an iPhone
Post by: HCK on November 03, 2017, 04:05:21 pm
Everything the Apple Watch can do without an iPhone

What can your Apple Watch do without your iPhone present? Quite a lot, actually!

Whether you own a Series 0, Series 1, Series 2 Apple Watch, or Series 3 Apple Watch, you'll need an iPhone to set it up and use most of its core features. But even so, Apple's wearables are powerful little machines in their own right: If you leave your iPhone at home, you'll still be able to do quite a lot. Here's what the Series 0, Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 Apple Watch models can do without an iPhone present!

It tells the time



Unsurprisingly, timekeeping will continue to work as advertised, and you'll be able to set alarms and timers, see downloaded calendar events, and the like.

When your Apple Watch is near your iPhone, the latter does send it an occasional update to keep the Watch in sync with the global standard, but unless you plan to be away from your smartphone for weeks at a time, your watch shouldn't suffer any degradation.



It logs your workouts



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