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Connecting watch to new phone

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mk313

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I am in the market for both a new phone & an apple watch (I don't have a watch currently). from reading the forums, it looks like when you get a new phone, you have to connect the watch as a 'new' watch. Does this wipe out all of your activity data from the phone, or are you able to recover that? I was planning to pick up the watch first, but if I'm going to lose my workout data when I upgrade phones, it probably makes more sense to get the phone & watch at the same time.

Thanks in advance,
 
If you want to save your activity/health data, back up the old phone in iTunes, ensuring that you encrypt the backup or you will lose your activity data. Then connect the new phone to iTunes and restore from the encrypted backup and your activity data will transfer over. When you pair your new Watch to your new phone, you won't lose any of the original activity/health data.
 
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mk313 said:
I am in the market for both a new phone & an apple watch (I don't have a watch currently). from reading the forums, it looks like when you get a new phone, you have to connect the watch as a 'new' watch. Does this wipe out all of your activity data from the phone, or are you able to recover that? I was planning to pick up the watch first, but if I'm going to lose my workout data when I upgrade phones, it probably makes more sense to get the phone & watch at the same time.

Thanks in advance,
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When you get an iPhone, just restore it from the backup of the old iPhone. Then you pick up right where you left off, including with your watch.

Edit: beaten to it! Echoing that you need to encrypt backups though.
 
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Is that because of the personal health data stored on the watch, or is that more of a general comment? Not sure if I'm missing something. Thanks
 
That makes perfect sense. Thanks for the clarification
 
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