Backup apple watch unpair manual#
Backup apple watch unpair series#

They could always then unpair their current watch and start pairing the new one with the most recent backup made when the old watch was unpaired. That would be an interesting and harmless test.

I guess someone could test this by NOT unpairing their present watch before pairing the new watch to see if they get any clock face customizations made after sometime in November. And tomorrow when people get new watches whether any recent clock face customizations are restored to the new watch. I’m curious to see if anyone else can see backups (other than when unpairing) since last November. The storage for each backup increased each time which indicates that I had more to backup. Also, why were there 11 backups by 11/3/17, and then none since then except for 6/3/18 when the watch froze.

Backup apple watch unpair series#

And since this customization was done on the iPhone why wasn’t it still available when I restored the backup in June on the replacement series 3 watch. Of course this happened after I had finally spent some time on the clock face customization so that is what I noticed immediately. And I had restored successfully previously from series 0 to series 1, series 1 to 2, and series 2 to 3. That may be, but the list of what is supposed to be backed up on “Apple’s backup support document” includes 'Clock face settings, including your current watch face, customizations, and order ' which is what was not restored so probably not backed up for probably 6 months. You should be able to load a backup onto your new apple watch when setting it up after you unpair your old one. The applecare person I just called told me it is done automatically, but couldn’t find it on her iPhone either. When you unpair an apple watch from your iPhone, a backup of that watchs data is created and stored on your iPhone, including when you back it up to iTunes. I can’t find any way to force a backup other than unpairing the watch.

Backup apple watch unpair manual#

I did a manual backup of my iPhone to my Mac yesterday so I am assuming that might be what was done yesterday. Mine was way down the list at 61.4MB and shows it was last used yesterday but I don’t know if that means a backup was done yesterday or what. If you also have TOO many apps you will have to search for the watch icon since they list the apps in order of how much storage they are using. Go to Settings>General>iPhone storage>Watch on your iPhone. In case you’ve never checked, it isn’t easy to find. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Has anyone else checked to be sure their watches are backing up. I’m assuming that the frozen watch might have corrupted the 6/3/18 backup but can no longer remember what occurred.

So the 11/17/18 was probably the last working backup since the 6/3/18 backup would have restored my complications if it was any good. This means my current watch has never backed up since is the day it froze and I called apple support for a replacement. I have 7 backups from 2016, 4 from 2017 and only 1 from 2018. Before I find this happening again I thought I would check my Apple Watch backups to be sure they were occurring. When I paired the new watch I lost all the new complications that I had created, probably when the series 3 was relatively new. My series 3 Apple Watch was replaced because it froze in June 2018. This is what I just posted on Apple communities discussions. Sorry this is so long but I hope I’ve included enough information to encourage other MPU addicts to check your backups.