I thought I would be able to set up an Apple Watch for a child on my iCloud account under family sharing. Set up let me do this on her behalf as she doesn’t have an iPhone - only an iPad. However the watch cannot call me - as I guess it thinks It’s calling itself? What’s is the point in enabling set up for a child if there is no functionality. Any help gratefully received
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Apple Watch Series 5, watchOS 10
Apple Watch Family Plan
Set up Apple Watch for a family member - Apple Support
Set up Apple Watch For Your Kids - Apple Support
Some limitations: Cannot receive SMS/MMS messages, as that depends on a fully paired iPhone. Messaging is pretty much limited to Apple's Messages, unless the messaging service provides an Apple Watch app. Alarms, alerts, notifications on the iPhone are not sent to the Apple Watch. Apple Pay via a credit card is not available. Also not available: Medications, respiratory rate, irregular heart rhythm notifications, ECG, AFib History, Cycle Tracking, Sleep, Wrist Temperature, Blood Oxygen, Walking Steadiness, Audiobooks, Camera Remote, News, Shortcuts, and the double tap gesture.
You need a cellular model watch and you need to have a paid addition for the watch on your cellular provider account. If that provider supports family set up.
How do I set up an Apple Watch for child without iPhone
