{"id":449,"date":"2025-11-25T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/ios-26-2-restricts-wi-fi-sharing-between-iphone-and-apple-watch-in-the-eu-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:43:38","slug":"ios-26-2-restricts-wi-fi-sharing-between-iphone-and-apple-watch-in-the-eu-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/25\/ios-26-2-restricts-wi-fi-sharing-between-iphone-and-apple-watch-in-the-eu-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.2 restricts Wi-Fi sharing between iPhone and Apple Watch in the EU, here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/07\/apple-european-union.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>With iOS 26.2 and watchOS 26.2, Apple is removing a key Wi-Fi sharing feature from iPhone and Apple Watch in the European Union due to interoperability requirements under the Digital Markets Act.<\/p>\n<p>This news was first reported last month by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/tech\/2110247-lapple-watch-et-liphone-vont-perdre-une-fonction-en-europe-pour-la-premiere-fois-annonce-apple.html\">French publication <em>Numerama<\/em>.<\/a> The report explained that starting with iOS 26.2 and watchOS 26.2, iPhone won\u2019t be able to sync Wi-Fi history to a newly-paired Apple Watch like it can now.<\/p>\n<p>Here are more details on how exactly this will work and why Apple is making the change. <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"apple-watch,ios-26-2,iphone\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1029120\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/19\/ios-26-2-wifi-sharing-apple-watch-iphone-eu\/#more-1029120\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With iOS 26.2 and watchOS 26.2, Apple is removing a key Wi-Fi sharing feature from iPhone and Apple Watch in the European Union due to interoperability requirements under the Digital Markets Act.<\/p>\n<p>T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravymedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}