Q: Lost all my Apple Watch Activity history after broken iPhone.
Is there any way to retrieve my activity history?
My iPhone 6 screen partially broke. Being proactive, I decided to unpair the apple watch from the broken phone before getting my replacement iPhone 6. Then paired my Apple Watch with the replacement iPhone 6. I had at that point started from scratch on the Apple Watch as if I just opened it from the box. All my settings were defaulted and no activity history.
I decided to restore my broken iPhone’s backup over the replacement iPhone which was a very recent backup. Then when opening the iPhone Apple Watch app, was instructed to RESET the apple watch from the Apple Watch settings app. Once I did that, I paired the apple watch with my replacement phone.
I was asked to “restore” my apple watch and I selected YES. Once I did that, it synched up with my iPhone and all my settings for my apple watch were back the way they were before, including my glance views and home screen/clock settings.
Unfortunately, zero Activity history was maintained. Is there any way to retrieve my activity history?
Apple Watch, Watch OS 1.0.1, Apple iPhone 6 iOS 8.3
Posted on Jun 6, 2015 8:23 AM
IF you restored the phone from an iCloud backup your watch data would also be restored. If you restored from an iTunes backup that data would be there only if you were encrypting those phone backups. If you weren't then the data is gone.
When you unpaired the watch a backup to your phone would have been created and then had you done an iCloud or encrypted backup to iTunes that data would have been preserved in a subsequent restore. Then when you re-paired the watch to the new phone you, I believe, would have been given the option to restore from that original unpaired backup.
Posted on Jun 7, 2015 8:56 AM