Does Apple Watches Have Hotspot? They Should!

Hotspot & Apple Watches

Apple Watches are smartwatches that can easily provide powerful insights about your body. Be it about something as vague as little steps you take in morning to bathroom or the crucial little details of your heart beating in irregular patterns. So, it is not an insane question to wonder if the same device which is capable to monitor the oxygen to blood ratio in your stream can handle the hotspot?

For those who are unclear about Hotspot it is when you transform your smart device to act as the transmitter of the Wi-Fi signal for the other IoT devices in the vicinity. To better understand the concept think of your iPhone acting as the Hotspot which is now allowing your partner’s phone (an Android phone) to connect to internet because your phone – an iPhone – is sharing the internet connection with it.

Applying the same principal that we learned above it is perfectly normal question to ask Apple Watches if they can do the same? Can they share the Wi-Fi with other smartphones? Or better, can they share the internet through hotspot with other smartwatches? Hmm…

How You Can Use Hotspot With Apple Watches?

The simple answer is no, there is no possible way to make your Apple Watch act as a hotspot. Given the battery situation of these little devices (you can charge your Apple Watch through different ways) there is no possibility where your smartwatch yet can ever be powerful enough to transmit the Wi-Fi signal. Keep in mind we said ‘yet’ which means there is a chance that while things can change in the future right now it is not the reality.

Another thing to note here is that even if you would be using a cellular coverage Apple Watch (by the way identify your watches’ model using our guide about Apple Watches sizes here) it is not possible for the Apple smartwatch to act as a hotspot. Combined toll that it will bring on the battery of these devices is so harsh that so far (even after the release of Ultra 2 and Series 9) Apple has not consider it as an opportunity to explore in future.

Another Alternative To Pursue

However, just cause you cannot use your Apple Watch as an hotspot let us remind you that your iPhone can do it just fine. You are going out somewhere and you want to use hotspot for other devices iPhones can easily and reliably provide the stable connection.

Even if you don’t have the iPhone per say you can use any mobile phone, all modern phones come with the ability to transform themselves into hotspot station on your whim. It is that easy. You don’t particularly need to have your Apple Watch to take that mantle.

But Can Your Apple Watch Connect With iPhone Hotspot!

Once again the answer is no and the extended answer is that you don’t need to do it in first place. Because a) if you would be using LTE Apple Watch with lets say a career like Straight Talk then you won’t ever need to get an external source for the Internet. Your Apple Watch will be getting more than enough from your cellular service provider.

As for the option b) your GPS Apple Watch which relies on Wi-Fi do not need to connect to direct Wi-Fi. At least not immediately, because if your iPhone is synced with Apple Watch and Bluetooth connection (the best kind of connection) is up and running then your Apple Watch will not need to have a direct Wi-Fi connection.

However, if that is not the case and your iPhone is not anywhere to be found then yeah you can connect to a Wi-Fi directly but that might not work great with one coming from a hotspot station. Since Apple Watch cannot connect to public networks that require logins, subscriptions or profiles or to 5GHz Wi-Fi networks. They suffer and so can you.