do I have to unpair my apple watches when I use Quickstart?

[caligurl]

in the past or at least with my iPhone 11 and earlier I had to unpair then re pair my apple watches to my iPhone.... is that still the case with the Quickstart device to device? thanx!

 

[ian-frs]

I didn't have to unpair this time. It asked me if I wanted to pair with my new phone after restore opened the watch app on both phones it asked me to verify if that's what I wanted and it moved over. The only thing missing are my awards on my new phone because for what ever reason Apple never gets those to transfer right.

 

[Banglazed]

No, it will prompt you if you want to transfer your watch to new phone. After the setup, the old device will prompt if you want to erase it.

 

[Banglazed]

Heads up though, after the transfer, some notifications on the watch have missing app icon. I’ll be resetting and repairing my watch.

 

[big samm]

Like others said i didn’t need to unpair my watch from my old Xs Max…. setup new phone, watch asked me if i wanted to transfer to the new phone press yes and boom it was done. My music didn’t even got erased everything stayed exactly the same. Only thing now is i can’t use unlock with Apple watch to unlock my phone when wearing a mask

 

[newellj]

@big samm The mask unlock-with-watch issue is a widespread bug. Hopefully Apple will get that solved soon. They are certainly very aware that it's not working. I've had new phones that had bigger problems, but punching in a long code (required by employer MDM) gets pretty tedious.

 

[akash.nu]

My new 13 Pro seems to not be able to find the watch even thought its connected to my 11 Pro and is working fine.