Apple Watch won't re-pair with iPhone 6

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Good luck. I followed the same steps and after the restore, I got a message that the iPhone/Watch pairing failed and to start over. I do, pair successfully, and now when I try to restore from either of my now two back-ups, I get the same message. I'm in an endless loop.

This just happened to me yesterday. The little red iPhone symbol appeared at the top of the watch display and wouldn't turn off. Also it wasn't pulling in weather and other data so not connected at all to my iPhone 5C. I tried many things but here's what worked (same as you, dcnoonkester).

1) Unpaired/deleted the Apple Watch from my iPhone's Bluetooth setting

2) Reset the Apple Watch under settings (on the watch)

3) In setting up the watch, after selecting Language, I was prompted to set up as new or restore from backup

4) I restored from backup and after several minutes I had my old settings back and life was thus able to continue. :-)

Problem solved.

I ended up in the Apple store in Durham, NC, and long story short, the problem turned out to be my phone and not the watch at all. Something on the phone was causing the problem, and what it was will remain a mystery. But the techies reset my phone to its factory defaults, and with a clean phone, pairing was successful. Then we restored the iCloud saved settings, etc. and had the "moment of truth." The phone paired with the watch again, so all is well.

So if all else fails, try pairing the watch with a different iPhone. If that works, something is going on in the original phone. The folks at Apple were great, by the way. I counted no fewer than seven people involved before the issue got resolved, and it did get resolved! Kudos all around.

I Had this happen to first my wife, now 2 weeks later to me. Watch stopped getting weather, stocks etc. Rebooting watch and phone didn't help. Followed the advice found here and it works. Restore phone to factory settings (after backup). I stopped they syncing and then it was able to pair with the watch. Then synced the phone. Need to redo fingerprints on phone and credit cards in watch app for Apple Pay. Hope it never happens again but it beats going to the Apple Store.

I had the same issue - and followed the advice here with the following difference: Instead of completely restoring the iPhone; only reset the Network Settings (Settings, General, Reset, Reset Network Settings). After that the watch reconnected successfully and restored from its backup. It's been fine since then (3 days so far).

Wow. Thanks for the network-reset tip! This resolved several maddening issues with my iPhone 6, in particular an intermittent inability to determine its own location, and Photos locking up whenever I chose one of the “More” buttons to pick an extension. You spared me the tedium of performing a full 50-plus-GB backup, resetting the iPhone completely, and then restoring from said backup. I’m beholden!

Yes! That did the trick: (Settings, General, Reset, Reset Network Settings) I didn't have to do anything afterwards except re-entering a few passwords.

First time I ran into this issue in about 5 weeks of ownership. I had Bluetooth issues almost everyday with my old Pebble.

Beautiful! Thanks for posting to reset network to re-pair phone and watch.

Hi All,

Before trying anything drastic, see if a simple switch OFF and then ON of Bluetooth on iPhone can help. It worked for me.

Check this link for details:

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I Also ran into this problem after choosing power reserve and the watch went blanK after a while. I tried resetting both iPhone and the watch, but did not succeed. Finally, I charged the watch to the full and reset iPhone to all and it could pair the same. Thanks Apple.

Thank you for sharing your problem and answer.

thanks! Works now. Forgot about using settings on the watch.