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I'm overseas on a trip to China. Evidently my Watch lost power yesterday, although it shouldn't have. Upon recharging it is fine but no longer paired with my Phone. Trying to re-pair, I held my watch up to the phone camera as directed, but nothing happened. Could my Watch now be unable to communicate with my phone for some reason (something is broken in the Watch)? Suggestions on how to fix?
Hi
If your watch is unpaired according to your iPhone, but not according to your watch, follow these steps to re-pair your watch:
- On your watch: go to the Home screen (via a single press of the Digital Crown) > Settings (cog icon) > General > Reset > Erase all Content and Settings.
- Re-pair it using the Watch app on your iPhone, choosing to Restore from Backup if the option is offered:
Hi
If your watch is unpaired according to your iPhone, but not according to your watch, follow these steps to re-pair your watch:
- On your watch: go to the Home screen (via a single press of the Digital Crown) > Settings (cog icon) > General > Reset > Erase all Content and Settings.
- Re-pair it using the Watch app on your iPhone, choosing to Restore from Backup if the option is offered:
For future reference, there is a difference between your devices being "unpaired" vs them becoming temporarily "disconnected".
If your watch becomes temporarily disconnected from your iPhone via Bluetooth and cannot connect to a known Wi-Fi network at the time, it will show the Disconnected icon on the watch face:
Such disconnections can be normal, occurring whenever the paired iPhone is unavailable (such as during iOS updates or when your iPhone is out of range).
It is not normally necessary to unpair and re-pair your devices after this happens. They should instead reconnect automatically a short while after being brought close together again. If they do not, keep your iPhone and Apple Watch close by each other and follow these steps until they do:
It may help to toggle Bluetooth off and on again on your iPhone (Settings > Bluetooth).
If the Settings Glance states Connected and the symbol at the upper-right corner is a green phone symbol, then your watch is connected to your iPhone via Bluetooth.
For the best performance from your watch, keep both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi permanently enabled on your iPhone.
If they still do not reconnect, unpair and re-pair your watch by following the steps in my previous reply.
More information:
If your Apple Watch isn't connected to your iPhone - Apple Support
Watch became unpaired. How do I repair?
