Apple Watch won’t pair with IPhone 16 Pro
I have unpaired it from my old
phone and now it won’t pair with the new phone or the old phone- I have made sure it’s in proximity and turned on.
Apple Watch Series 4, watchOS 10
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I ended up with apple support walking me through this after hours of trying everything suggested online for the same issue.
The fix is infuriatingly simple.
You have to go to your watch: settings -> general -> reset -> erase all content and settings (the option at the top).
The title of the last button you hit should be renamed "factory reset" because it makes you think you're about to lose everything forever. But you won't, as long as your apps have been saved to the icloud, everything works. You'll go through the set up as if it's a brand new watch but it signs you into your apple account so when you reach the end of the set up it's your old watch with all the settings & faces you had before but paired to your new watch.
