Coming up on Hands On Tech, let's take a look at what's required in order to use your Apple Watch when you're away from your iPhone.

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Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech.

I am Micah Sargent, and this is the show where I take your tech questions and answer

them.

Yeah, it's very simple.

You write in with your delicious and delightful tech questions, and I take the time to do the

research and figure out what you need to know for hopefully getting

that question answered. Today's question comes in from Sabahatine, who has written in to ask

about push notifications on an Apple Watch. So Sabahatine says the Apple Watch cellular models have this

neat feature where if you are out of reach of your iPhone, but you're still online via cellular,

you can receive push notifications from your iPhone, even apps for which there is no companion

Apple Watch app. Sometimes if you can reply on the notification, that means you can handle your notifications

entirely from the watch remotely.

Neat.

Now the question is this.

Can I do this just using Wi-Fi where my phone and my watch are on different Wi-Fi networks.

To clarify, that means I have left my phone at home, online, and gone somewhere where there is

Wi-Fi available, like a local cafe.

And my watch has already connected to that network before, and so it connects now, and so my phone

and watch are now on different networks but are both online. Why does it matter?

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