When upgrading your equipment, you often have to erase your data and break connections with other devices. Especially if you plan to sell your old smartphone or watch. The practice of a single ecosystem is quite widespread, but Apple stands out in particular. On their devices, everything is usually a little more complicated than just clicking a couple of settings.
In this article, we will look at how to unpair an Apple Watch and what steps need to be taken to do this.
How to unpair If you have an iPhone
First of all, you need to have your smartphone and watch close to each other. Connect them to the same Wi-Fi network and place them on the same surface. Then go to the Watch app on your iPhone and follow our instructions:
- Open the “My Watches” section and tap on “All Watches”;
- In the field with the Apple Watch that you plan to unlink, click on the information icon;
- At the bottom of the window that opens, click on “Unpair Apple Watch.”
- If you have a GPS + Cellular model, choose whether to save your mobile operator plan. You may need it when switching to another similar model and without a backup you will have to contact your operator. If you don’t need it, refuse to save;
- Enter your Apple ID password to unlock your device and confirm the transaction, then select Unpair.
Before deleting your watch data and information, your iPhone will create a backup copy. You can use this to download the information to a new watch, or to your old watch if you decide to do a full reset and disconnect it.
In the absence of an iPhone
If you don’t have an iPhone nearby, but need to break the pairing to transfer the watch to another person, you can do this using the internal interface.
To do this, follow the instructions on how to unlink Apple Watch without a smartphone:
- Open “Settings”;
- Go to the “General” section;
- Select the “Reset” option and tap the “Erase all content and settings” button;
After that, you can give the watch to another person or set it up again. The main thing to remember is that you will need the passwords for both your Apple ID and the watch itself to successfully delete the data.
Also remember that this method not only breaks the pairing between the devices, but also erases all settings and media files, while keeping the activation lock. In order to remove it, you will still have to use the first method and first break the pair via iPhone.
In this article, we have analyzed the official methods of how to unpair an Apple Watch from an iPhone. Use our instructions and do not forget to keep your data safe