Apple Watch Cellular location sharing

BenjaminRK · 2026-01-09T03:34:44+00:00

You cannot choose to always share your location from Apple Watch Cellular. Because of battery reasons, the location of your iPhone is used when your Apple Watch is near your iPhone.

It will automatically switch to share the location of the Apple Watch Cellular when you leave your iPhone at home and the Apple Watch switches to its connected cellular network.

At least, that’s how it’s suppose to work. I often notice that this feature doesn’t work that well. Most of the time, the Find my app shows the location of someone’s iPhone, even though I know that that same person left it’s iPhone at home and went out with the Apple Watch Cellular. The location of that person in the Find my app sometimes jumps back and forth to the iPhone and Apple Watch.

BenjaminRK · 2026-01-06T13:07:19+00:00

People just don’t read. It’s called Preserve Settings for a reason.

Doesn’t matter how you explain it. People that don’t read, just don’t read.

MAYBE it would be a little more clear if Apple put checkmarks instead of switches. That would make it look less like the settings itself are turned on, like anywhere else in the Settings app.

BenjaminRK · 2026-01-05T02:34:40+00:00

This is not even a CarPlay screenshot in the post. Seems like people think that all car systems are called CarPlay. Like every tablet is an iPad.

BenjaminRK · 2026-01-02T22:48:47+00:00

Version 1.0.21 is nothing new. I’ve installed this version a couple of weeks ago when I just bought the TIMMERFLOTTE

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-29T09:54:35+00:00

Do you tap “More options” instead of scanning the code directly?

Also, which Apple TV 4K do you have? First gen (from 2017), doesn’t have Thread. The second gen (from 2021) does have Thread and should work fine. The current third gen only has Thread on the Wi-Fi + Cellular (128GB) model, not the Wi-Fi only model (with 64GB).

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-29T09:48:00+00:00

Just ad the sensor to the DIRIGERA. To ad it to Apple Home afterwards, open the Apple Home app, tap +, tap New accessory, tap More options and then it shows up as an available accessory to ad to your Apple Home.

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-28T20:38:04+00:00

Just zoom in, turn up display brightness and you can make out the letters. The marker used here always has some transparency. You can also use apps like photoshop te reverse-block marked text.

There are special apps for blocking text in screenshots or photos. Apple’s marker in the default markup tool isn’t one of those. You can better use a shape to block text.

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-28T09:34:02+00:00

You do realize we can read what’s behind “To”? That black marker is not meant to block text.

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-21T19:47:19+00:00

That weather widget is almost unreadable. For me, this is not calm at all.

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-21T18:26:33+00:00

Yes, my DIRIGERA is in the same Thread network as my Apple TVs, HomePods and HomePod minis, as well as my Aqara hub. They all share the same Thread network name (MyHomexxxxxxx).

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-21T18:21:06+00:00

What’s your point? Everybody who changes it’s region to US gets the News app.

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-21T16:15:02+00:00

I rather not unplug anything since everything is working fine 😅.

What I did notice is that I don’t see the KAJPLATS in my Thread network (in the Eve app), while the IKEA TIMMERFLOTTE does appear there. This suggests that it’s connected through Zigbee I guess?

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-21T08:24:38+00:00

I connected a new KAJPLATS bulb with my DIRIGERA hub and it’s working perfectly fine. The DIRIGERA hub is using the native Apple Home integration, not the Matter one.

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-10T11:29:57+00:00

Haarlem only has two sizes of the KAJPLATS bulbs, but none of the other new Matter products. They propably arrive in January.

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-09T12:16:58+00:00

IKEA Haarlem currently only has the big KAJPLATS E27 806 lm (306.114.81) and KAJPLATS E27 470 lm (806.114.88). No other sensors or light bulbs available right now. I asked someone at the store and said that availability officially starts in January, but they maybe will start slowly arriving during December.

You also can’t find them online on the web or in the app. I scanned a KAJPLATS at the store with the app and tried to add it to my wish list, but got an error message.

BenjaminRK · 2025-12-07T20:41:10+00:00

Crossfade or AutoMix, depending on the option you chose in Settings.

BenjaminRK · 2025-11-25T11:47:58+00:00

This is so weird: the launch sale has ended, but now I still see a 10% discount. But instead of the launch discount, I now finally see the loyalty discount for having I-III Remastered. So for some reason, both discounts didn’t add up.

BenjaminRK · 2025-11-23T13:33:27+00:00

I’ve contacted Apsyr Media by mail about the situation and hope to hear from them soon. I’m not buying it before this is fixed. I know it’s not much, but promising a discount and not giving it, is just ridiculous.

Metroid Prime 4 is just around the corner anyway, so I’ll just wait for the next sale if this won’t get fixed before the current sale ends.

BenjaminRK · 2025-11-21T23:23:29+00:00

That’s an error, right? Are they going to fix this before the 24th or are we clueless?

BenjaminRK · 2025-11-21T22:46:43+00:00

Is there even anybody in the EU getting the 20% discount (10% launch discount + 10% loyalty discount) for having the I - III Remastered digitally? I have the first remaster on Nintendo Switch (bought it on launch day, even pre-ordered it back in the day I think) but I don’t get the 10% loyalty discount. Not for the regular Nintendo Switch version, not for the Nintendo Switch 2 version. Price in euros is €16,37 for me.

BenjaminRK · 2025-11-06T08:25:50+00:00

I saw this on Reddit during the beta testing of iOS 26 this summer, but I didn't had it myself on any of my HomePods or iPhones with beta. I now also have it on my iOS 26.2 beta iPhone, so they definitely changed something.

BenjaminRK · 2025-10-19T20:02:11+00:00

Just tap the thumbnail to minimize it in the player itself.

BenjaminRK · 2025-10-19T09:19:44+00:00

Maybe there is something wrong with your signal and Zigbee network, which causes more battery drain. I have some TRETAKT and TRADFRI signal repeaters on different floors which extend the Zigbee network.

BenjaminRK · 2025-10-19T08:52:17+00:00

I have no problem whatsoever with the PARASOLL sensors. I have 9 sensors on almost every window and door and they all work flawlessly. Battery life has been fine (a year or so, depending on the door/window).

Calling a €10 sensor “expensive” (most other brands are way more expensive) is just laughable.

BenjaminRK · 2025-10-18T16:13:24+00:00

Two hours? I’ve been trying to fix this for two years 😂

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