Need to recover pictures in my apple watch

Also, as you have since bought a new iPhone, your watch is not paired with it.

When you are ready to do so, before being able to pair your watch to your new iPhone, you will first need to erase your watch manually:

• On your watch: when viewing the time, go to the Home screen (via a single press of the Digital Crown) > Settings (cog icon) > General > Reset > Erase all Content and Settings.
• And then pair your watch by following the standard process:

  Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support

I'm afraid that is not possible.

Photos can only be synced to Apple Watch from the paired iPhone. They cannot be synced in the other direction or otherwise exported from your watch.

Even if this had been possible, the photos that are stored on your watch have been automatically resized to smaller pixel dimensions, for display on the watch's smaller screen.

The best that you could do is to take photos (using your iPhone) of the photos on your watch.

The best that you could do is to take photos (using your iPhone) of the photos on your watch.

Jonathan, would it be possible to take screenshots of the photos while browsing the album the photos on the watch? the quality would be better than iPhone photos. What I am not sure about is if it is possible to take and save screenshots while the watch is not paired with an iPhone. Pairing will probably erase the stored photos album, or will it?

léonie wrote:

.. would it be possible to take screenshots of the photos while browsing the album the photos on the watch? the quality would be better than iPhone photos. What I am not sure about is if it is possible to take and save screenshots while the watch is not paired with an iPhone. Pairing will probably erase the stored photos album, or will it?

Hi léonie

No, that is not possible. The screenshots would not be saved to the iPhone (as there is no paired iPhone).

All content and settings on the watch will be lost when it is erased.

You don't.

Thank you, Jonathan!