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About photos and Apple Watch

Why does my watch not sync photos from the iPhone, although there should be synchronization.

Posted on Dec 19, 2021 12:20 PM

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Posted on Dec 19, 2021 12:55 PM

On your iPhone, tap on:

Watch > My Watch > Photos

and select the album you want t sync with under "PHOTO SYNCING"


The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Dec 19, 2021 12:55 PM in response to Karinas_lk

On your iPhone, tap on:

Watch > My Watch > Photos

and select the album you want t sync with under "PHOTO SYNCING"


The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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