II purchased two watches but can't figure out how to have both paired to my iPhone. I have a sport and milanese watch. Paired the Milanese but can't work out how I can add the sport watch.
iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.3
I'm pretty sure that it is one watch per phone and one phone per watch. The watch is an extension of the phone.
I too have two Apple watches and just discovered this. Seems pretty lame that Apple does not allow you to select from whichever watch you choose to wear. Right now you have to unpair one and pair the other every time you switch watches. I don't know... but it's a cumbersome chore switching watches the way it is now.
Seems as if it would be easier just to get different bands.
...not if you track sleep or do 4 hr workouts, you'll drain the battery. Not everyone wants to hit up the gym, ski, paddle, mountain bike with a $900 watch. So, seems as if it would be easier to write better software to support two watches intraday & night: 1 for exercise & sleep; and another everything else.
Case in point: I own 2 watches, and have been tracking my pulse during sleep. Discovered some interesting vitals, and awaiting app developers to build sleep apps. This is a potentially huge market for the watch. But swapping bands won't make this possible. You know what will? - 2 Apple watches. A design company with the purpose to move units and you are governed by 1? -Steve Jobs would've made up to 5 wearables to sync simultaneously.
While it's 5-7 minutes to pair/unpair between 2 watches, and data from the watches is stored safe on the phone as you change from watch to watch, this is a critical flaw. I mean, how do you sell more watches? -You make it possible to truly own and use 2 throughout the day & night.
It might be intended this way at first until the watch app is proven. But I don't see the needed feature in watch OS 2. So, maybe Apple engineers never thought about it.
Can you pair two watches at same time
