With a mobile watch, you can send and receive texts using your phone number and mobile service.
Note: You can't use a mobile watch with an iPhone.
Check if you have a mobile watch
- If you can’t see your screen, wake up the watch.
- Open the Settings app
. - Tap Connectivity and look for 'Mobile'.
- If your watch doesn’t show this option: You don’t have mobile service. Skip the other steps.
- Make sure that you have:
.Note: The text abilities of your watch vary depending on your operator and plan.
Send a text message
AT&T customers: When you send a text from your watch, you can choose to send the text from your watch’s number or your phone’s number.
Verizon customers: All text messages are sent using your phone’s number.
To send a chat message with apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber and others, you need the same app on your Android phone or tablet.
Say 'Send a message with' followed by the app name and the person, and then say the message. For example, 'Send a WhatsApp message to Sam'.
Learn more about messaging apps and how to troubleshoot sending messages.
- From your apps menu, open Messenger (AT&T) or Message+ (Verizon).
- Tap New Message.
- Choose who you want to send the message to.
- When finished, at the bottom of the screen, tap the blue tick mark.
- Speak the message that you want to send.
- On some watches, you can also type, send an emoji or scroll down for pre-written messages.
- Your watch will tell you that the message is being sent. To cancel before it's sent, tap Cancel .
.Reply to a text
You can reply to a text message from the notification card or your messaging history.
Reply from the text notification
- On your watch, scroll down to the notification that you want to reply to.
- To open the message, tap Reply .
- On some watches, you need to swipe left and tap Reply .
- On some watches, you need to swipe left and tap Reply
- Speak the message that you want to send.
- On some watches, you can also type, send an emoji or scroll down for pre-written messages.
- Your watch will tell you that the message is being sent. To cancel before it's sent, tap Cancel .
. Reply from your message history
- From your apps menu, open your operator’s messaging app.
- Scroll down to see past messages.
- To open a message, tap it.
- Tap Reply .
- If your watch doesn’t show this option: At the bottom of the screen, tap the blue button.
- Speak the message that you want to send.
- On some watches, you can also type, send an emoji or scroll down for pre-written messages.
- Your watch will tell you that the message is being sent. To cancel before it's sent, tap Cancel .
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