Light Phone announced a new Phone: Does anyone use an iPad Mini or iPad as their primary iOS device?

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So I’ve been interested in the digital minimal space for a few years now due to smartphone fatigue. The Light Phone just released a compelling new phone and I am thinking of switching. Has anyone made the switch but had an iPad as their “iOS device?” How was it? Did extracting your phone number away from blue bubbles cause issues with friends or family? I’m thinking of getting the new Light Phone with an iPad Mini with cellular for when I need apps. Basically I’m asking is there any challenges to having an Apple Ecosystem without an iPhone as the anchor?

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Do you own an Apple Watch???

That might be the only drawback I can see.

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I do I figured I would have to forfeit it. My ideal set up would be for the Apple Watch App to finally come to the iPad or Mac. Then I would just not have an iPhone.

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I have not, but I’m testing the iOS 27 public beta on my old iPhone 11 using WiFi only.

And it appears you would be unable to use Messages and would need to use something like WhatsApp or Google Voice on your iPad, and use your light phone for SMS messaging.

But as long as my iPhone 11 is logged into the same apple account as my iPhone 16P I cannot be 100% certain.