Family setup AW not discovering my home wifi

[thecautioners]

My daughter’s SE2 is set up with my phone by family setup. During the setup process it did find and connect to our home wifi, but I turned wifi off to make sure cellular worked. Cellular worked. I went back to wifi settings to turn it back on and my home network wasn’t there.

It’s been a couple days and the watch is still not discovering the home network. I’ve tried a forced restart of the watch twice and no change. All the Google info I can find applies to watches that are fully paired to the user’s own iPhone, so I’m not sure what to do. I can’t take it to the Apple Store because, obviously, my home network isn’t there. It does discover neighbors’ networks and oddly the signal from my printer.

I’d like the watch to be on wifi while at home since cellular drains the battery so fast. I’m very frustrated

I tried resetting my phone’s network settings, toggling airplane mode on both devices, turning Bluetooth off and on, turning off cellular on the watch… I’m not sure what else to try.

 

[Bichon]

You haven't said anything about your home network. I'd log into the wifi router and make sure you haven't accidently selected the option to hide your wifi SSID, and also try rebooting it.

 

[thecautioners]

You haven't said anything about your home network. I'd log into the wifi router and make sure you haven't accidently selected the option to hide your wifi SSID, and also try rebooting it.

I can try resetting the router. If it matters, all other devices find and connect to our network—my AW, iPads, all phones, Roku tv

 

[Howard2k]

Could also try to remove the wifi network from the phone and add it back.

 

[mk313]

Also, I THINK that the watch will only connect to 2.4 Ghz wifi networks and not 5 Ghz ones (or possibly vice versa, it's been a long time since I've seen that). Make sure that your router supports them both (or at least whichever one works with the watch)

 

[HDFan]

If you have Apple Watch Series 6 or later, you can connect to 2.4GHz or 5GHz Wi-Fi networks. Apple Watch Series 5 and earlier, and Apple Watch SE, can connect only to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks.

Connect your Apple Watch to Wi-Fi - Apple Support

Choose which Wi-Fi network your Apple Watch connects to when your iPhone isn't nearby.

support.apple.com