Are these simply the known Wifi networks on the phone? Or do any public networks work? Is it possible for another iPhone than the paired iPhone to act as a Wifi tether? Any insight is greatly appreciated!
What defines a tetherless wifi network?
Tetherless WiFi just means the Watch app is accessing the Internet directly through a WiFi hotspot rather than going through the paired iPhone. I assume that any known and/or accessible WiFi hotspot would be eligible.
Ok, but that doesn't answer the question of what is a "known wifi networks." Or if a device acting as a hotspot can be a known network.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly confident that the iPhone transfers information about WiFi networks to the watch. All networks that your phone knows, the watch knows as well. The phone is not acting as a hotspot.
He's referring to using a second phone (not the paired one) as a WiFi hot spot. In theory that should work.
After reading the above, still unclear on how will the watch behave in the following scenario.
1. A watch app is installed that allowes the user to download News headlines. The customer wearing it is in a cafe that has Wifi. He has come into the cafe for the first time.
- How will the watch discover and connect to that Wifi?
- Assuming that if the App using NSURLSession in this case, it will avail of the best practices put in place eg TLS 1.2 to the news server. Is this correct?
2. Now the customer with the same watch app is on a trek with his friend his friend who has enabled a hotspot on his own iPhone lets assume without password requirements. The customer's watch will obviously see the hotspot for the first time.
- How will the watch discover and connect to that hotspot?
- Assuming that if the App using NSURLSession in this case, will it be able to avail of the best practices put in place eg TLS 1.2 to the news server?
From the above replies, it seems like the iPhone knows of WiFi networks at a certain radius around the iPhone . (how does it do that? download the Wifi hotspots/towers located around the device at that location?) Is this true?
1. Will all of these networks be classified as "known"
2. OR only those will be classified "known" to which the iPhone has previously connected?
Also,
1. Will the watch be able to discover and connect to networks around itself?
2. Will the known Wifi networks be listed on the Watch as it is in Settings -> Wi-Fi on the phone?
The watch gets the known / joined at some point / wifi networks from the phone. if you have not joined a hotspot before with your phone then your watch wont either. the watch wont join a hotspot by itself nor can you make it, you have to join it via the paired phone first which will then synch that info via keychain to your watch.