Can Apple Watch Be Used with iPad? All Compatible Devices

The Apple Watch was a revolution for the smart watch market. So much so that, today, it is the best-selling smartwatch on the market and it is rare to see someone with one of these devices from another brand. The question of many users is: can I use it with any device? To verify this, today we are going to try to use an Apple Watch with an iPad .

What do I need to use an Apple Watch?

Can Apple Watch Be Used with iPad

The Apple smart watch, whatever generation you have in your possession, is a device that provides us with many functionalities that will make our day to day easier. It has become an accessory for sports, a portable calendar or, even, a miniature mini phone with which we can make calls (although we will talk about this more closely now). A series of tasks that will help as an incentive in your purchase. But can I use an Apple Watch without having an iPhone? The short answer is no. We explain the reasons below.

Once we buy and take this smart watch out of its box, it asks us directly to link it with the “Watch” application . An app that, if we search within the iPadOS or MacOS App Store we will not find. What’s more, we will have this software pre-installed on any of the iPhones that we can currently buy. With the Watch application we can start our new watch and make its initial settings.

Once we have this device started it is true that we can use it regardless of our phone depending on the model we have and the task we want to perform. We will be able to play sports with it without taking an iPhone with us, since, from series 2 these devices have integrated GPS. We will have access to the tasks that we have already created in the calendar and any other tasks that have been synchronized prior to the disconnection of our iPhone.

An independent Apple Watch

Apple Watch Series 3

Although there are a couple of models of this smart watch that are, in part, more independent than the rest. From the Apple Watch series 4 we can acquire this device in its LTE version, what does this mean? That this equipment will have its own internet connection regardless of the connectivity of an iPhone or the Wi-Fi signal. Therefore, to the actions that you could perform with it without a phone, we must add the ability to receive notifications or make and receive calls completely independently. Of course, you will still need an iPhone to perform the initial configuration of this equipment.

Apple seems like it doesn’t want its smart watch to stop being an accessory to become a completely separate device. Although little by little they are adding functionalities that allow greater freedom with it.

Who knows if in the future Apple Watch series 6 , in addition to a change in the design that many users request, the company chooses to further open the functionalities of this equipment. The first and most important step would be that they allow their initial configuration not to depend on a phone, at least for those who purchase the LTE version that allows us to have almost all the possibilities of this thanks to connectivity.

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