Hi,
I got a new iphone recently, so I erased data and settings from my other iphone and watch to disconnect them, then I repaired the watch to my new iphone. For some reason, half of the apps werent downloading, so I tried to erase the data and settings again from the new iphone, however, the iphone is still connected to the watch, but the watch has disconnected from the iphone…?
Where am I to go from here?
Apple Watch SE, watchOS 10
You can erase the watch without the iPhone, which will disable the Activation Lock, so that you can pair it again to your new iPhone, after you restored your new iPhone or set it up again.
You can erase the watch without the iPhone, which will disable the Activation Lock, so that you can pair it again to your new iPhone, after you restored your new iPhone or set it up again.
The backup of your Apple Watch is part of the iPhone backup.
So, erase the watch, restore your new iPhone from the backup of the old iPhone, then pair the Apple Watch with your new iPhone.
As long as the watch is still paired with the old iPhone, you can not pair it to another iPhone.
My intial plan was to just re-pair the watch and the phone but instead of restoring the data from my old phone onto the watch, i would just set it up manually to see if they made a difference. But now my watch is now saying “bring iphone closer to watch” and on the watch app on my phone, it’s still connected, so i can’t even repair it cause it’s still technically paired?? And i’ve tried the “erase apple watch content and settings” about 3 times and the only thing it’s doing is making that option go grey instead of orange so i can’t even click it plus it doesn’t anything 😭
Trying to unpair my watch from my iphone
