{"id":13814,"date":"2026-09-10T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:10:23","slug":"my-apple-watch-and-my-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2026\/09\/10\/my-apple-watch-and-my-router\/","title":{"rendered":"my Apple Watch and my router"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had no idea, my Apple Watch connects to my router, until I found a device by the name of &#8220;Watch&#8221; on my router&#8217;s list of actively connected devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its MAC address is &#8220;Private \/ Randomized&#8221;. That did not help to find its maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then I asked Google &#8220;AI mode&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">does my &#8220;Apple Watch SE 3 (GPS)&#8221; maintain a wifi connection to my router?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here is the answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/aimode\/RxevEPPY4XoIVl3vb\">https:\/\/share.google\/aimode\/RxevEPPY4XoIVl3vb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot imagine, my iPhone and my Apple Watch are outside Bluetooth reach. I switched off the WiFi connection in my Apple Watch&#8217;s &#8220;Control Center&#8221;, and the Bluetooth connection got reestablished instantly. The WiFi connection consumes more energy than the Bluetooth connection. So now maybe my Apple Watch battery lives a little longer, before it needs recharging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea, my Apple Watch connects to my router, until I found a device by the name of &#8220;Watch&#8221; on my router&#8217;s list of actively connected devices. Its MAC address is &#8220;Private \/ Randomized&#8221;. That did not help to find its maker. But then I asked Google &#8220;AI mode&#8221;: does my &#8220;Apple Watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-3AO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13815,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions\/13815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}