new iPhone - re-pairing to a watch

[josh bear]

Hi

Just got my 6s. My watch is paired to my previous iPhone, I know how to unpair but do I then lose all my settings / apps etc i.e. do they stay on the watch when I unpair so i can then just pair with the new phone?

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks

Josh

 

[matrix07]

You won't lose any settings (except pace calibration, the one you run with the phone to let it learn). The phone will make a back up of the watch. But you should make a backup of your old phone to iCloud first before re-pairing.

 

[Cowboy1629]

Step by step instructions from Apple

https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht205189

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

And if you're backing up in iTunes, be sure to enable encrypted backup unless you don't care about preserving your health/activity data.

 

[papbot]

Hi

Just got my 6s. My watch is paired to my previous iPhone, I know how to unpair but do I then lose all my settings / apps etc i.e. do they stay on the watch when I unpair so i can then just pair with the new phone?

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks

Josh

Or make an encrypted backup to iTunes. That will retain all your passwords and health data. But as stated you will lose motion calibration, any synced music playlist and any Apple Pay data regardless of method.

 

[nasa25]

for some reason my watch won't pair with the 6s. It hangs at the pairing screen and then when I cancel the pair on my iPhone it says 'unpairing apple watch'. Can't even pair manually because my watch doesn't display the 6 digit code, only the pair screen

 

[scwinsett]

Would you even have to repair the watch? If i back up my 6, won't that backup have the watch paring data, so wouldn't it transfer to the 6s?

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

Would you even have to repair the watch? If i back up my 6, won't that backup have the watch paring data, so wouldn't it transfer to the 6s?

Except it's still paired to the old iPhone. You need to kick it off the old iPhone, either from unpairing it or doing an erase all contents and settings from within the watch.

 

[josh bear]

Thanks all. It worked. Sort of. My app layout is extremely messed up. Re the pairing I had the same issue ie wouldn't pair then said it was unpairing. Finally it paired.

 

[bmustaf]

You won't lose any settings (except pace calibration, the one you run with the phone to let it learn). The phone will make a back up of the watch. But you should make a backup of your old phone to iCloud first before re-pairing.

I'd back it up to iTunes (encrypted) if you can. On even the fastest connections, iCloud is orders of magnitude slower, and backs up less and relies more on individual apps' sync feature stop restore data, etc.

Nothing (still) beats a USB cable to iTunes to do a full (encrypted) backup (emphasis on the encryption, because if you do that, it will backup passwords & health data seamlessly, too).