{"id":609,"date":"2023-09-08T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2023-09-08T02:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T02:20:11","slug":"apple-watch-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple makes some good products&#8230; I&#8217;m not so sure the Apple watch can be counted as one of them.  Reasons: the battery life isn&#8217;t stellar, and, most importantly, it is an utter pain to set one up for family member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The setup problem is because apple requires an iphone to set up the apple watch and, to travel the royal path, said iphone should be on a plan that supports the apple watch.  Since I am cheap, I am not on one of those plans.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After much pain and wasted time I found the one true way to connect the watch to cellular while keeping a cheap plan on your phone.  The process is superficially easy, but unnecessarily painful.  Roughly it goes like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Call verizon.  Yes. Call.  In the year 2023 &#8211; you MUST call them.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You must connect to their &#8220;inside sales&#8221; departemnt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tell the sales associate you want to connect an apple watch to cellular in standalone mode<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Given them the watch IMEI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ask them to activate the watch. Then activate the watch using your iphone.  Do this with them on the phone\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If they don&#8217;t activate now, you will try endlessly to get it to work in vain.  You will call them the next day and have to pick right up where you left off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple makes some good products&#8230; I&#8217;m not so sure the Apple watch can be counted as one of them. Reasons: the battery life isn&#8217;t stellar, and, most importantly, it is an utter pain to set one up for family member. The setup problem is because apple requires an iphone to set up the apple watch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/?p=609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple Watch Solo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carson.fenimorefamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}