How To Install Cellular on Apple Watch w/ a Different Carrier (Verizon & T-Mobile)

The other day I was helping someone pair their T-Mobile standalone Apple watch plan to their iPhone with Verizon as the carrier, and whenever you would go to install cellular on the watch in the setup process, it would try to connect to a Verizon watch plan that never existed in the first place.

The fix was to make a separate Apple ID for the standalone watch and connect it to your main Apple ID on your phone so that the watch can naturally connect to the available eSIM and work properly. I hope this helps anyone else stuck like I was, peace!

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[davey]

you have to call verizon and have a ticket upgraded to a level 2 to talk to an engineer and have the imei added manually to their database to get around this.

[steveJacob-vzwp]

What nobody is discussing, or I can’t find any video on is…

When you do this, you LOSE ECG, Apple Pay with your credit cards(only Apple Cash), you lose many of the functions that you get with linking YOUR OWN Apple ID to the phone. BUT… if you link your Apple ID to the phone, it won’t allow you to use the new cellular plan you have for the watch🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽😳🤯🤬

[WhyDidYTstartThisHandleShit]

godlike content. this is the only thing that worked -- I personally have verizon + android phone..

my job gives me an iphone...

i buy series8 watch and cant get cellular working, the work-iphone has no cellular anymore (wifi only, for MS Teams etc) and its ATT just to top things off

i watch this vid, unpair and reset my watch, pair again/redo everything while setting up an alternate me and use that family-type user as a proxy and ta da, we have joy.

[SideOfHustle]

I want just a watch. I don’t want a phone anymore. airpods and siri + watch is all I want.

[miljanstojkovic]

Thanks for the video. One question, I'm still confused, i have an e sim but where shoud i connect it to? Because I use Telia on my iphone and Telenor is the esim card so i need to install Telenor esim on my phone end then connect it to the watch?

[wheelingsdeborahwilson]

Will the health app on your phone still show you the amount of steps you took even though the watch is set up as a different phone line?

[teamj]

That helps I’m also Getting an Apple Watch So This Might help me

[frankswiader]

Quick question, hope you can help. I have a iPhone 15 through Boost Mobile, can i connect a cellular apple watch to it you think. Thanks

[jl]

hm.. my Verizon iPhone only shows Verizon cellular data for watch... after I clicked "setup cellular", it showed: call Verizon

[Dro-Ordanzo]

I have an Apple Watch 8 and it’s from Verizon. I’m trying to gift it to my gf but she has T-Mobile. Can she pair her iPhone to my watch if I remove the activation lock and remove cellular plans ? Or while I get the same issue you’re having?

[laurieliszewski]

If my granddaughter has her own IPhone on Verizon and I have TMobil can I put a watch on my TMobil account with data for her will it work through her phone?

[ShawnEvans-fefn]

I just got the ultra2 from Verizon with a standalone watch line different number but my IPhone is through spectrum am i gonna have to run gps or is the Verizon watch have its own phone serivce

[GadgetmanNH]

I tried this as I don't use an iPhone as my main phone but wanted the Apple watch Ultra. It does work, but you are severely limited in functionality. Medications, respiratory rate, irregular heart rhythm notifications, ECG, AFib History, Cycle Tracking, Sleep, Wrist Temperature, Blood Oxygen, Walking Steadiness, Audiobooks, Remote, News, and Shortcuts don't work in this standalone mode. Deal breaker for me.

[dangerous]

What if you just turn off cellular data or take out the Sim of the Verizon phone and then set it up?

Must the iPhone have a cellular plan in order to use it with a watch that has a standalone plan?

[ItzBigBoyDave]

Ok so will you still get notifications from the phone to the watch?

[jhxsmyq]

Im trying to activate my wactch but cant figure it out. I have the apple 9 from Verizon and my iphones from Spectrum.

[bryanpark]

I have it standalone but I don’t know how to add music in Apple music on the watch

[wbxvgcm]

can you please be more detail because the carrier dont understand it

[ngiwnho]

I’m try get straight talk cellular for my Apple Watch and they said I can’t do that at Walmart