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How do I re-pair my apple watch to my 5s?
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Settings > General > Erase all contents and settings. Once it resets you can pair it with a new phone.
NOTE: This will lose all motion calibration data (and likely all your other settings since you're repairing it with a phone that it wasn't previously connected to).
If you restore your 5S from a backup of your 6, you might keep all the settings on your watch but I'm not certain as I haven't tried a move like this
I have done it in the past, but both phones were on the same OS version (and this was back on iOS 5 or 6). You definitely can't restore a backup to another phone with an earlier version of iOS though
Yes, the age of the phone only matters if the model is unable to use current software. The important requirement is software versions being equal. The 5S can use the latest 9.1 beta so as long as its updated to equal or newer than the 6 was, it will be fine.
thanks for the response guys.. basically you have to unpair the watch first from your existing phone so you can re-pair it with another one. In my case, I didn't unpair is so that means I had to restore my watch before it becomes available for re-pairing again. It's now paired to the 5s. now I had to do this thing all over again for the 6s plus.
suggestion: when you un-pair, that's when the watch backs up to the paired phone. so if I unpaired my watch to my 6 plus, the watch will create a back up to the phone.
unpair/watch backup > old phone backup > new phone.
suggestion: when you un-pair, that's when the watch backs up to the paired phone. so if I unpaired my watch to my 6 plus, the watch will create a back up to the phone.
unpair/watch backup > old phone backup > new phone.