New iPhone, new problems and new settings. Many of you have chosen to purchase the iPhone 7 in its normal or Plus version, however, the Apple Watch Series 1 and Series 2 have not tempted your wallet enough. Now it's time to unlink our Apple Watch to link it to the new iOS device, and it is not as easy as it might seem. That is why today we want to bring you a tutorial on how to pair your old Apple Watch to a new iPhone, because in Actualidad iPhone We like to make things easy for you, especially in troubled times such as changing from one iPhone to another.
Previous measures: Backup and unlink the Apple Watch
We will take precautionary measures for each project of this type. First of all we are going to open the Apple Watch application on our iPhone to access the section of We Watch and choose the option that will allow us to unpair our Apple Watch instantly. Now we will only have to confirm the action by entering our Apple ID.
If we do not want to lose the data of the Apple Watch we will have to make a backup copy of our iPhone in iCloud, for this as always, we will go to Settings> iCloud> Backup. In the new iPhone we must restore said backup. We can also do this through iTunes, a method that I prefer for its stability.
Pair Apple Watch to your new device
We will not lose anything if we have restored the backup, it is something to keep in mind. First of all we will click on the Apple Watch application in iOS 10, and as soon as we open it will ask us to pair the Apple Watch. Let's wait for the confirmation of the data at the end of the animation screen. On the iPhone we will choose the option «Restore backup»And we follow the steps indicated on the screen.
Similarly, in this tutorial our colleague Luis Padilla indicates how to save Health and Activity data to restore it to new iPhone. Don't miss out on this relevant information.
