Now one of the most exciting pieces of Wednesday's Apple
announcement is the ability to go ahead and set up an Apple
Watch for a friend or family member who doesn't necessarily
have an iPhone whether it be for cost reasons whether be for
maybe just maturity levels but they don't have an iPhone that
you can still go and activate an Apple Watch for them now.
Up until this point if you want to use an Apple Watch you were
tied to using an iPhone.
So this opens up the door possibilities for people that
we're gonna get access to the Apple Watch that don't
necessarily have an iPhone again even if you're an Android
user if you want to go ahead and get an Apple Watch for
whatever reason sleep tracking activity tracking you
can do that.
Now with this service.
So when today's video we can talk about what family setup is
how to manage it and as well as how to go and set it up.
Let's get started.
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As I mentioned the beginning family sharing is a service
that allows you go and activate an Apple Watch be on behalf of
someone who doesn't necessarily have an iPhone can
be your child, it could be your older parent or family member
someone who doesn't have access to an iPhone and you know I
mean for good reason right.
iPhones are one expensive too the service plans are expensive
carriers and not nearly everyone needs all the bells
and whistles of having an iPhone.
So now you can go and activate an Apple Watch series four and
newer does have to have G.P.S. in LTE but you can activate
that for someone and give them all the benefits of let's just
say the ecosystem.
Right.
You're gonna get I message you're gonna go ahead and get
face time audio you are going to go in and get access to mail
AppStore and all those benefits without necessarily having that
you know the expensive kind of barrier to entry.
I am actually going to go and activate my series four with
G.P.S. plus cellular Apple Watch and give it to my son
he's 4 years old not really just interested to see how many
steps he takes in a day because he's a very rambunctious kid.
Now for the most part it's very simple if you already have an
Apple account like I did for my son.
I'm gonna walk you through the steps of how to go and set up.
Let's go over to the top-down table and see how that works.
All right so first we're gonna go ahead and do this.
We're going to open up the watch application.
Now here we see the Apple Watch face we're going to click on
Add watch we're going and watch for a family member.
And then once we click on and watch family member,
we're presented with the data and privacy ease.
So those seasons These are the standard ones that Apple go
ahead and present click continue.
Now it tells us here how family set up works.
You know if I already have a family I'm going to go at the
individual that we're that we're setting up to watch for
needs to have an apple light.
So we'll need to set one of those up.
They don't have an Apple I.D. We're gonna go ahead and get
those was with the option to go ahead and create one.
Now it does tell you here at the very bottom that you do
need to have an Apple Watch series for G.P.S. in sailor or
Wi-Fi and cellular as I call it or later for this to go
ahead and work.
I'm gonna go and click continue.
Now here's the standard pairing process.
I'm gonna go and put my phone up here I'm going to line the
viewfinder to this the onscreen image.
So now it is paired.
Let's go and click on the risk preference we're going to use
left for you to know my son.
He's like he's right-handed.
Here are the terms and conditions we're going to
the text size.
Now we're set the passcode.
Now here the watch is setting up family sharing now.
This is the part where initially took a long time it
took me about an hour I'm going to click on Miles here I'm
gonna go ahead and type in his password.
Give me a second here.
And if you are wondering about that Apple Watch band that I
have on here this watch.
This is the Special Olympics band that was available in 2016
that was available only in Brazil at the new Apple store
that opened at that time.
This is the Apple Watch.
International bands.
This is the Brazilian band.
So a lot of questions on that one.
We're gonna turn on asked buy which is to be on anyways
because he's under 13 since he already has an account.
It's going to ask us to authenticate using the passcode
from his iPad.
Here I'm given the option to go out and turn on Tyler now.
This is not something that you need to have in order for it to
go ahead and work.
But if you don't have some other plan tied to this Apple
Watch obviously the visibility that you have to the
individual's location and their access to the services is going
to be limited because it's not going to work on Wi-Fi.
I'm going to use this to set this up not now or set
this up later.
Now here I'm going to go ahead and share what the password is
for our Wi-Fi network with him even though he already has
a nice device.
Here's a location services that we're going to go in turn on.
We're going to turn on Siri and now we're going to
Apple Cash family.
We're gonna go ahead and select it up for family members only
hear that terms and conditions it.
What this does is this allows me as a user to go ahead and
send cash to any of my family members.
I like his way of maybe doing allowances.
We're going enable messages in the cloud.
Here's and be as health data.
This is going to take all of his health metrics that he is
getting to Islami to view them on my iPhone.
Click share
My setup his mercy so his contacts and his medical I.D.
card and I am now going to share his information during
an emergency and reduce activity.
Let's hope his activity now there's his information which
we're gonna go ahead and block that out.
Now here we see the daily move goal for him since
he's under 13.
They're not focusing on the number of calories or move
calories per day they're focusing on the number of
minutes per day for exercising.
They still have the three different kind of tiers of
light-moderate and heavy for that for that.
But know we're going to choose light because you know
he's a four-year-old .
I have no idea how much he moves but I think you know
again I'm gonna be surprised because I am gonna put this on
him I want to see how much he actually many steps he
takes per day.
All right we're about track routing.
We're disabled.
He's actually working out and we are not going to go ahead
and set up the photo watch context for miles on the set
of his contacts.
I can actually do this inside of the downtime app sort
of screen time.
Very good password.
In here's at school time which I talked about earlier school
time allows it restricts access to the features on the watch
unless the watches unlocked move add that as is and added
have a watch
now my phone is connected to his watch and there's that
Apple Watch face.
And now we're logged in.
Now here's all the information or all different settings that
I can go and manage on his watch which is really the same
as what you'd see on another person's or another watch
even your own.
With the exception of school time obviously, if the
person if you're not under 13 years old you're listening to
this you've never seen this but you would see the end of the
school time schedule here.
Also, you have the ability to go ahead and there's a
handwashing notification that you see on the top.
Now for a lot of parents out there ten dollars a month for a
managed device for further child is really I think a great
piece of mind because you get to know where they're at what
they're doing and have control over who they are engaging with
because of those parental control features that Apple
puts inside of violence.
Now I don't know about you but ten dollars a month and 20
bucks a year that is a piece of mind that is well worth
it for me.
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
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