{"id":3429,"date":"2023-07-31T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessyield.com\/tech\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:46:40","slug":"how-to-unpair-apple-watch-and-pair-to-new-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessyield.com\/tech\/apple\/how-to-unpair-apple-watch-and-pair-to-new-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Unpair Apple Watch and Pair to New Phone","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Throughout history, pairing an Apple Watch with an iPhone has become completely intuitive. Apple has designed its products to quickly recognize one another to provide users with a more streamlined and enjoyable experience. The process of unpairing an Apple Watch, on the other hand, can be a little challenging. So in this article, we will go over the process to pair and unpair an Apple watch and phone.<\/p>
If you want to switch to a new Apple Watch and reset your old one before selling or gifting it to someone else, you must unpair it from your iPhone.<\/p>
If you restore your Apple Watch to factory settings without first unpairing it from your iPhone, Activation Lock will be triggered because your Apple ID and phone will still be associated with the watch (more on this in the FAQ section below). This is a pain you don’t want to deal with, and it never happened to me while exchanging an Apple Watch at Best Buy.<\/p>
Hold or place the two devices close together to unpair your Apple Watch from your iPhone.<\/p>
To open the Watch app on your iPhone, tap on it.<\/p>
This will give you a list of all the e Apple Watches linked to your Apple ID. Locate the one you want to unpair.<\/p>