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Title: How to restore your Apple Watch from a backup
Post by: HCK on February 26, 2017, 04:05:23 pm
How to restore your Apple Watch from a backup

If you get a new Apple Watch, or had to reset yours to resolve an issue, restoring from a backup is simple!

Updated February, 2017: Added new screenshots, modified instructions to account for the ability to pair multiple watches to the same iPhone.

Unlike most modern Apple products, you have no real options for how your Apple Watch is backed up. For iOS devices, it's iCloud, iTunes, or both. For macOS its Time Machine or a number of third-party backup solutions. For watchOS, all you can do is unpair your Apple Watch when you're having problems or getting ready to move to a new watch.

The good news is this: your Apple Watch backs up automatically during that unpair process. There's no extra button to hit, and no way, at least under normal use, to stop the process. It backs up, unpairs from your iPhone, and that's it. From there, you can use that backup to restore that watch or move all of its settings, data, and apps to a new watch.

Here's how you restore an Apple Watch from a bac...

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