Apple Watch Disconnecting

I found I can force reconnection by:

1. going to my phone's Bluetooth settings
2. turning off Bluetooth and then turning it back on
3. Choosing my watch from the list and reconnecting

My watch just started disconnecting even though my 7 plus is only a couple of feet away.

I tried cycling Bluetooth on and off. No luck.

I tried unpairing. No luck.

I reset my watch. No luck.

I factory reset my phone AND my watch. No luck.

I am becoming increasingly frustrated.

This is unacceptable performance from my Apple devices and I want it fixed!

Another reset of the watch and it paired and connected again.

Every time I want to use the watch I have to go to Settings -> General -> Reset and let the watch erase all content and settings and reinstall itself. This is the ONLY way to get the pairing screen back up on the watch. The manual pairing instructions say to click the "i" next to your watches name in the device list .... but the device list is completely empty.

We have three watches right now, and only my girlfriend's daughter's watch works correctly. The other two have to be reset every day. All the activity has to be set back up and anything you logged onto the watch the day before is gone. The watch faces and such go back to the default and any custom watch faces get deleted. Same with anything else that gets customized on the watch. It all has to be set back to the default settings every time the watch is used.

I am having the exact same problem. I spoke with tech support but the support person was unable to resolve the problem during a one hour phone call. I ended up pushing the reset on the watch and this worked. This is not something I want to keep doing. I had to reload credit cards into Apple Pay, re install several apps, etc. even though I used the available back up choice. Since the watch is still new, this wasn't a major problem, but now two days later, the watch has disconnected again from the iPhone. There appears to be no other way to reconnect. The manual option does not work because there is no way to get the watch to the pairing screen without doing the reset. I tried the other suggestions: turning on Airplane Mode then off again. No results. I will probably have to contact Tech support again today.

Still unable to re-pair my Apple Watch with my iPhone. All the latest software installed. Did a Power Off on Watch as well as a reset on Watch. Turned Bluetooth on and off again on phone. Still not able to get back to the original pairing screen. I am at a loss. Anybody got any bright ideas?

Finally stumbled upon a solution. On the Apple Watch go to Settings > General > Reset. That was the only way to get back to the pairing screen. Fortunately it did provide the option to restore from a backup. If it disconnects spontaneously again, I will try cycling Bluetooth on the iPhone before Unpairing (the latter I believe was the nuance that for some reason prevented re-pairing screen).

I had to reset mine also. I'm not sure why turning Bluetooth on and off would help someone, the watches are paired via a different screen. The Bluetooth list on my iPhone 6 does not list the watch, but it didn't list it when the watch was working I believe.

I reset the watch yesterday and let it resetup and install the update, etc.. etc... It worked for one day and now it is disconnected again.

We tried about everything before giving up. My GF and I both can not get our watch connected to our phones again. Right now they just kind of tell time and that's it.

A reset of the watch only fixes it for a matter of hours.

I experienced this same issue. I noticed the Bluetooth icon in the upper right corner of my iPhone 6 "blinking" at times. At first I attempted to tap the Watch in the list of Bluetooth devices (within Settings), but repairing was unsuccessful every time. At that point I disabled Bluetooth in Settings, but the toggle to reenable it wouldn't work (I've never seen that behavior before). I rebooted my iPhone 6, reenabled Bluetooth afterwards, and the Watch reconnected. I hope this helps.

Whew!!, I was going crazy with this problem. Thank you so much...This is so much easier than resetting & re-pairing. I'm so glad I found your suggestion before I went to those extremes. Thank you!

My solution: power down your iPhone, wait a minute and power up your iPhone. The watch should be connected again.

I've had this problem twice in two weeks for no discernable reason (and certainly not because I was out of range). The first time, I completely reset the watch and re-paired it. The second time, I did what I described above. It worked.

My technical stuff: iPhone 6 with IOS 8.4

Use Siri on the Apple watch to toggle airplane mode. If it is on turn it off, if it is off turn it on and then off. It should be off when you are done toggling. Return to the iPhone make sure Bluetooth is on and your Apple watch should reconnect.

The problem is it keeps happening.

I can force it to re-pair but shortly after it's disconnected again.

I used to be able to walk all over my house without my phone and it would stay connected.

Now it disconnects even if I'm just a few feet away. This morning it showed disconnected and my phone was in my pocket.

You are absolutely right. I have had my watch since august 5th and I had had to reset it twice when I had watchOS 1 on it and today is the third time I will have to reset it with watchOS 2.0.x. I like the watch very much when it is working, but I am not planing on buying one for my wife until I know the stability problem has been solved.

I keep having to reset the watch completely. Next time I'll try the on/off suggestions before I unpair the watch from the phone. This seems to happen each time I connect the phone to my computer to update with iTunes using a usb cable. WiFi updates don't seem to trigger the problem. Am I wrong with this observation?

Just adding this here in case it can help anyone else... I was experiencing this same issue and none of the above fixes helped me. Turns out, my iPhone had not finished updating to the latest software update (due to lack of space on the iPhone) and was "in between" versions. This was causing issues with the Apple Watch and my phone. I cleared some space and downloaded the latest iOS update and since then, I have had no issues. Hopefully this helps anyone else with my weird edge case!