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Apple watch not pairing to new phone

Hi, I recently got a new phone and all of my data carried over from my old on to this one fine, except for my Apple Watch, it stopped downloading on 5ish dials. When I checked my watch again it was gone and said it’s not connected to the new phone. I’ve just gone and unpaired it from my old phone so I could then connect it to my new one but it said there was an unpaid error. Now my watch thinks it is still connected to my old phone but isn’t connected to any internet (has the red phone with a line through it) and my old phone has unpaired it. I just tried to put it on charge and hold down the power off button however it doesn’t let me tap anything (emergency sos and off button that takes me to the power off slider) except for the cancel button (as per advised on this forum) How should I go about this problem to be able to connect it to my new phone?

Apple Watch Series 5

Posted on Dec 25, 2022 3:36 PM

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Posted on Dec 26, 2022 5:29 AM

Duh I’m an idiot 🙄. All I had to do was go into settings > general > reset. And boom. Then I pressed pair NEW watch. And it loaded in all of my stuff from backup automatically without asking (which was pretty cool).

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Dec 26, 2022 5:29 AM in response to ChrisJ4203

Duh I’m an idiot 🙄. All I had to do was go into settings > general > reset. And boom. Then I pressed pair NEW watch. And it loaded in all of my stuff from backup automatically without asking (which was pretty cool).

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Dec 25, 2022 4:01 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

It doesn’t let me erase my Apple Watch. I can’t find a way that has worked yet. According to the old phone it is disconnected, and according to the Apple Watch it is connected. Therefore it doesn’t show up when I try to pair existing or new Apple Watch.

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