How to Pair Apple Watch to New Phone

Bought a new iPhone and worried about how to transfer your Apple watch to it? Let’s share with you the tricks on How to pair Apple watch with New iPhone.

If you don't have your old iPhone

1. First, erase your Apple Watch. 
2. Now synchronize your new iPhone and then sign in to iCloud. 
3. To pair your new iPhone with the watch, open the Apple Watch app on your new iPhone.
4. You can also restore it from the backup. Both the devices should be updated to enjoy backup. 
5. If being asked to restore it from a watch backup, you must select the most recent backup. 
6. In case you don't have a backup then you need to set up your Apple Watch as a ‘new one’. 
7. To finish steps smoothly you must follow the onscreen steps.
8. Now you can start using your Apple Watch with your new iPhone. To see all your iCloud data you might need to wait a few days.
   
   

If you have your old iPhone and you didn't erase it:

1. Primarily you have to unpair your Apple Watch from your old iPhone. Once you are done with it choose one of these options:
2. You can pair your device if you have just restored your new iPhone from a recent backup. However, do make sure that both your iPhone and Apple Watch are updated. If they are not up to date, you might not see your backup in the list. Select on the popup to restore from a watch backup. Depending on how old the backup is, Your recent Activity, Workouts, or settings content might be lost.
3. In case your iPhone backup is several days or weeks old but you want to restore maximum, then you should erase your new iPhone. After erasing now transfer the content from your old iPhone to your new iPhone. Chances are that you might lose some of the content here as well. Once done, now pair your Apple Watch and iPhone again. 
   
   

FAQs

In case your Apple watch is stuck while pairing?

Follow these particular steps if your watch gets stuck while pairing.

1. Long press the Digital Crown and the side button simultaneously until your watch restarts. Now release them.
2. Once it restarts, now firmly press the screen or hold the Digital Crown.
3. Now select Reset.
4. Once it is reset you can pair it with your iPhone.
   
   

How Do You Pair Apple Watch Again?

1. To pair it again you will have to enter the Apple ID and password that was used to set it up.
2. Now put it on its charger.
3. Long press the side button until you see Power Off.
4. Press and hold the Digital Crown, then tap Reset.
5. Once the Apple Watch unpairs completely, you can pair it again.
   
   

Why Is My Phone Not Connecting To My Phone?

If facing issues connecting your watch or phone then recheck if your phone's OS version is compatible and the Wear OS by Google is updated. Also, check if you have activated Bluetooth on your phone.

How do I manually set up my Apple Watch?

1. Turn on your Apple Watch, Long press and hold the side button until you see the Apple logo. This process takes a few minutes. 
2. Wait for "Use your iPhone to set up this Apple Watch" before you tap Continue. 
3. Adjust the watch face in the viewfinder on your iPhone to wait for a message saying that your Apple Watch is paired.
4. Tap ‘Set Up’ as New Apple Watch or tap Restore from Backup. If asked, you can update your Apple Watch up to the latest version of watchOS.
5. When asked for your Apple ID password. If not asked then you can sign in later from the Apple Watch app- Tap General > Apple ID, then sign in.
6. Now choose your settings. 
7. Tap to create a Passcode or Add a Long Passcode on your iPhone. Now switch to your Apple Watch to enter your new code. In case you want to skip, don't add a Passcode.
8. Now you are ready to choose features and apps.
   
   

How do I unpair my Apple Watch without my iPhone?

1. Put the Apple Watch on its charger.
2. Long press the side button if turning the device off. 
3. Now firmly press on the POWER OFF slider and let go.
4. Now tap on Erase all the content and setting to unpair it completely.
   
   

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