topic Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch in Roaming

Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

StuMcBill1 — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:16:37 GMT

Hi,

I've got a cellular Apple Watch linked to my iPhone on my EE account. I have EU roaming included in my account and I wondered how this would be handled on my Apple Watch?

I don't plan on being separated from my phone when I'm away (so will be connected via bluetooth), but just wondered if I could utilise my cellular Apple Watch, and if it would be included in my current tarrif?

If so / if not, is there anything I need to do on my phone / watch before travelling?

Thanks.
Stewart

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

Chris_B — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:58:13 GMT

@StuMcBill1 roaming being enabled is on the line it’s enabled for it is not the account being global for all lines on the account. Your Apple Watch doesn’t have the ability to roam so we will use a Bluetooth connection to your phone.

Just check roaming is enabled for your phone by texting roaming to 150. That’s it.

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

PaulH99 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:52:10 GMT

Vodafone and Three support roaming on cellular Apple Watches. When will EE support this feature as well?

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

Peter_W — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:09:14 GMT

Welcome to the Community, @PaulH99 😊

At the moment, we don't have any immediate plans to introduce roaming for Apple Watch plans.

If this were to change though, we'd be sure to let customers know.

Roaming is still available for phones too, so any watch in Bluetooth range could still receive calls and notifications.

Peter

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

chistery — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:34:47 GMT

I didn't think any UK carrier supported roaming on Apple Watch yet?

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

uvarvu — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:20:50 GMT

I think you’re right. I also think that operators should start thinking about what their customers might want rather than the bottom line.

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

DOnChocolat — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:43:38 GMT

When the cellular watch was first announced, the Apple announcement had EE shown as a network who supported it. I posted on this forum and it was said to be coming soon. I purchase a cellular watch from EE as a result.

Fast forward 5+ years. Feature still missing now said to be not planned. Obviously never coming but I’ve accepted that. A shame as would have been useful when I’m away at the beach and don’t want to take my phone,

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

uvarvu — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:02:02 GMT

Exactly. I was at beaches and water parks and didn't want to take my phone for security reasons. Sometimes my wife took my younger child to different areas and I watched my older child. We had no way of staying in touch and had to arrange to meet at chosen locations at set times.

I'm seriously angry that these plans were shelved and there is no interest from the other networks. EE really does exemplify en**bleep**ification; poor signal and speeds, overpriced contracts with annual increases and a crawling cadence at network modernisation.

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

Matt_124 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:29:28 GMT

…but no one else does it either on the UK market.

I am not sure why all of your ire is directed at EE on this.

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

ee_user14 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:01:38 GMT

@uvarvu wrote:
EE really does exemplify ...poor signal and speeds, ....and a crawling cadence at network modernisation.

Out of curiosity, could you be more specific what you mean by this?

Of course there's always local differences, but there're networks far more worthy of these accusations than EE. I'm really intrigued why you're so vehemently angry towards them specifically.. and why you feel their network is so much worse than others.

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

uvarvu — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:39:55 GMT

I did point that out: "and there is no interest from the other networks"

Re: Roaming with cellular Apple Watch

uvarvu — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:42:23 GMT

Sure - because that's my experience. At home my signal isn't great and maximum speed is around 4.5mb. At work things aren't much better, my speeds are around 15mb. I'm angry at EE because that's who I'm a customer of but I don't doubt that the other networks are probably just as bad.