Apple Watch cellular

gadget88

If I buy a watch cellular can I use phones from any of my Apple accounts or wife’s? Does it have to be the one linked to the iPhone contract? Or can I set the watch up for anyone?

Also can you pay the watch and contract early before the 4 years if you wish to and use without the cellular?

Do you get given a new number to your existing contact to call on?

lr1277

No idea about answers to your question. I don’t have an Apple Watch but I looked into them a few years ago.
At the time, you needed an add-on package to an EE sim to use the watch. At the time this added £5 to your monthly contract cost. Because of this link I imagine the phone with the SIM and the associated Watch are linked. Which leads me to speculate both bits of kit need to use the same Apple ID, otherwise the technology might get confused?

DullGreyGuy

gadget88 said:

If I buy a watch cellular can I use phones from any of my Apple accounts or wife’s? Does it have to be the one linked to the iPhone contract? Or can I set the watch up for anyone?

Also can you pay the watch and contract early before the 4 years if you wish to and use without the cellular?

Do you get given a new number to your existing contact to call on?

Sorry your question isn't clear...

By "buying" the watch do you mean paying cash for it from a randomly selected shop or getting it on credit with your telephone network (eg O2, EE etc)?

What are you trying to achieve? You buy the watch as a gift for someone else? Regularly switching who and so who's phone, is using it?

I bought the Apple Watch from Apple. Set it up for the wife with her phone. Can't remember exactly how did the O2 bit but it added £5/month to her account. It's a 30 day contract so can be cancelled with minimum notice and the watch then becomes wifi only.

Never played with the phone function of it... it has its own sim so it must have its own number but if the network provider does something so your caller ID matches the related SIM I dont know. Certainly online some say it does and others said it used to but now isn't. It certainly shows as a subsidiary of my wife's number in the O2 account which covers both our numbers

gadget88

It would be for my wife. So yes her account if it will still work? Looked at buying a cellular one from Apple but these £5 tariffs are not on website hassle of contacting them. The one I seen is !13 a 4 year deal but I’m guessing you can pay the entire thing off early it’s the SE so £280 I think is the credit agreement so would be easy to pay off when cellular data no longer needed? It’s mostly to check emails ect 

may also send text messages so would they come from the new number or iMessage? Would be using on her Apple ID rather than mine which has the contract I guess this would work?

o2 website says 30p per text doesn’t it send iMessage for free?