Moving my son's apple watch (with cellular) set up on family plan from my phone to his new iphone

My son's Apple watch was setup on my phone using Family Setup (It has a cellular plan with it's own phone # so he can make calls and text. He now has his own phone (which has a different #) and I'd like to cancel the watch cellular plan and pair it to his new phone. I see steps for pairing a watch to a new phone, but it doesn't mention anything about Family Setup. Are there any extra steps I should be taking if the phone is currently setup using Family Setup? He doesn't want to lose his contacts and I'm trying to avoid the need to manually reenter the contacts on his phone. Since he has his own Apple ID, would that automatically transfer his contacts/info to the new phone?


Also - I do want the new iphone to remain under my family plan which I assume is no problem since my other child's phone shows in family plan and I can set parental controls for both - I believe that has to do with their apple ID, and goes across all devices using their apple ID...?



iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 17

Posted on Aug 27, 2024 10:25 PM

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Aug 30, 2024 7:41 AM in response to silvan93

You would need to remove from your phone and add to his

see What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Apple Watch, or buy one from someone else - Apple Support (CA)


Apple family plan is for those who don't have phones.

When each member has a phone it is not the same plan.

you can still restrict usage but it is done through the members phone.


The contact will only transfer over is the child had their own iCloud account. If you load the iCloud account on to the new phone and you were syncing contacts etc through the cloud then the will all end up on the new device.

If you were not using the cloud then they won't port over.


If you loaded his apple id on the new phone see if the contacts are there. Make sure in iCloud that the contacts are selected

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