Duplicate Apple Watch in the Sources devices list

I set up a phone as new and repaired, that seemed to have solved the issue for me. Whenever updating iOS I turn the watch off, too. Everything is syncing correctly right now. But there's no peace of mind about the issue being actually resolved because of how annoyingly slow the repairing process is.

I am experiencing exactly the same issue. In addition - after a few weeks of use the battery on the watch starting to go downhill - not sure if related - but has something to do with the health database as active energy sync start lagging by hours.

I've went as far as resetting both watch and the phone (not from backup) - and still end up with 2 watches every time I pair a watch nomatter what I do. It's not random - it's reproducible every time. My friends watch/phone however doesn't seem to have this issue.

For me doesn't matter - new or backup produces the same 2 watches, the same down the road battery issues and the same down the road activity sync lags. If you look under privacy / analytics there're many many many log files with healthd being stuck with sqlite stack trace on Core Data (which is the worst framework Apple put out ever - that so poorly thought of that it can't possibly work right by design and source of a million bugs btw)

I also have this problem.

I reset the phone using the side button and crown button and switched my phone off at the same time. Waited a few minutes and restarted phone.

data now transferring!

In settings, there are still 2 watches and still saying one with no data is paired and one with data not paired- but it is actually getting the data now. 🤯

Yeah - once the 2 watches problem appears there's no way to get rid of it (even completely resetting both the phone and the watch and not from the backup doesn't fix it). My guess there' something set in the iCloud account that gets restored during the install (disabling health in iCloud doesn't help - so it must be something very core to the account state itself).

The bad part here is that you start seeing progressive battery life degradation and active energy sync delays after a while - and those are likely connected (you could go to Privacy/Analytics and observe increasing number of healthd errors complaining about CPU overuse stuck deep in sqlite stack - both from the phone and the watch).

One thing - keep an eye on the battery life in about 3 weeks after the reset. You should notice a progressive battery degradation that gets worse towards the end of the day. By week 5-6 the watch will become unusable (requiring multiple re-charges just to get through the day) until you reset it again.

You could also look under Settings/Privacy/Analytics and if you notice a lot of healtd CPU overuse logs - that's another indication. The battery problems will be accompanied by active energy sync delays (i.e. after a walk or a workout you will notice that the watch is seemingly not syncing - although all other functionality will appear normal - i.e. messages, photos etc)

I have the same issue I wonder how do we let apple know about this

Yes, this seems to be happening to everyone who realizes it. More discussions here

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/“this-apple-watch-is-no-longer-paired-with-this-iphone”-how-so.2200094/

Also, did you pair it after updating to 13.1.2 and 6.0.1? If not have you tried unpairing and repairing afterwards?

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Yep exactly! Do you know how hard I had to keep changing the words in my Google search to find this question? Lol. I unfortunately just deleted all my workout data bc of this issue.

Absolutely agree. Customer pay truck loads of money for a watch that is mediocre in terms of precision. I am thinking Garmin now...

That is so annoying! What complete lack of care!

Is this keeping you from adding people to see your activity? I can’t add anyone and I’m wondering if it is due to this issue.