There are several situations that lead us to unpair our Apple Watch from our iPhone. The most common reason is that we are starting to use a new Apple Watch and, therefore, want to unpair the old one. Another reason is that we are changing iPhones or even want to resolve any synchronization errors between the two devices. Let's talk about how to unpair our Apple Watch and remove it from our iPhone easily and quickly.
How to Unpair the Apple Watch from Our iPhone
When we unpair an Apple Watch from the iPhone it's paired with, the watch saves a backup of all its content on the iPhone and proceeds to completely erase all settings and information. After this, we find the watch with factory settings and the information backed up on the iPhone it was paired with. Carrying out this unpairing is very simple, and usually takes no more than five minutes. The steps for this are as follows:
- Keeping both the iPhone and the Apple Watch together, we open the Apple Watch app on our iPhone.
- We go to the My Watch tab.
- We tap on All Watches.
- We press the "i" next to our watch.
- We tap on Unpair Apple Watch.
- If it is a model with cellular connection, we decide whether to keep or delete the data plan we have installed.
- We confirm that we want to unpair the Apple Watch.
We assume that we have the iPhone with which the Apple Watch is paired with us. If not, we can perform the unpairing directly from our watch. To do this, we simply have to open the Settings app on our Apple Watch and go to General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. After entering the password and choosing whether to keep the data plan, if asked, we tap Erase to start the process.
Regardless of how we start the unpairing, we will see that the screen of our Apple Watch shows the Apple logo and a circle filling up around it. After completing the process, the watch will display instructions to pair it again. This way we can set it up on a new iPhone or transfer the backup from the old iPhone to the new one to pair the Apple Watch with the new phone.
The truth is that this is a very simple process. Once the Apple Watch is unpaired from the iPhone, we can configure it on another phone or sell or give it away. A key step that at some point in the use of our Apple Watch we will have to take. Fortunately, we can do it very easily.
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