How to Pair an Apple Watch with New iPhone Without Old Phone (Solved)

[@z061726]

Your video is dead on accurate as I couldn’t pair my watch to my ew iPhone 15 Pro. Old phone was wiped and couldn’t be paired. Followed your instructions and it took just over ten minutes start to finish. Excellent video for those of who forgot to unpair from my old phone before trying to add the watch to the new. This video is perfect and explained well.

[@thecollegepicker]

Glad it worked out, yeah I thought ours was busted until I went all the way through past the fails

[@Princessashxxo]

Thank you for your help! My old phone had been stolen and I was afraid to mess my watch up, your steps worked great!

[@rebeccaseverino5370]

Wow! Your well done video worked perfectly! I had everything backed up and updated, and had my watch paired with my now ruined old phone until yesterday ,so what you explained worked in only a few minutes! Thank you so very much!!!

[@patriciasbrownmd4744]

struggled with this before watching this video. You saved me! Thanks!

[@thecollegepicker]

You are welcome

[@RoyaleGloss]

What if you didn’t have an old phone but you just didn’t have a phone back then so you got a new phone, with that erase everything on the old phone as well? Or just the data on the Apple Watch?

[@janineenglish7411]

Thank you so much for your easy to follow video, my watch is finally paired up. For once I didn't have to go to my kids and say " How can I ? "😜Thanks again!

[@thecollegepicker]

You're welcome! Haha

[@kimnecaise8657]

I need to pair with new phone but I want to keep watch data because it is more current (pics, etc.) than the back-up. How?

[@Maria-ui9kf]

Did u figure it out?

[@victoriahernandez6822]

I would like to know that too!

[@InstrumentalKINGblog]

Same any luck @kimnecaise8657

[@anglelata354]

If your apple watch data is backed up on icloud then you will get the data after the reset also. I also got my data after reseting. Because my apple watch data was backed up on icloud.

[@MrDONTEATUS]

Thank you so much! This helped me out so much.

[@j8rr3tt]

What case are you using?

[@thomwalters]

SOOOOO helpful! It stopped the swearing. LOL

[@thecollegepicker]

Lol

[@AbigailKelly-un5vk]

Do all of ur fitness awards stay or erase? Xx

[@mackenziepfeif]

i need to pair my phone with an already used apple watch so i disconnected their phone but they had a security lock thing and need to remember apple ID they used but we dont remember. is there anything we can do

[@sunnycharacter]

Which phone and which series watch did you test with, did I miss something?

[@thecollegepicker]

It was an apple watch 2 with iphone 12 or 13 max I think.

[@OneidaGC]

Not all heroes wear capes is too often over used but in this case for real thanks bro❤

[@thecollegepicker]

You are welcome bro

[@LindaMartinelli]

Thank you so much - worked like a charm.

[@jepoy5596]

If i reset the watch without passcode can i connect to the other phone

[@nutritionwithmel]

Thank you wow why is this so hard for apple to explain on any of their forums lol

[@fs1008sounds]

This worked with no issues!! Thanks

[@thecollegepicker]

You are welcome. Slow to update but works great 👍🏻

[@rashmichangachanda1451]

Wow amazing … I wasted 3 days .. done in 3 min after watching your videos

[@FamilyDIYtv]

second time using this video ! thanks

[@Nanoparticle7]

I watched this video, get it “WATCHED” What has 147 teeth and holds back a monster?

[@victordejesus4818]

my zipper 😎

[@thecollegepicker]

lol

[@shenaytp01]

THANK YOU!!! I gave up on mine last Summer! I just picked it up again today…watched this video and Voila! Thank you so much. Straight forward and clear direction.🙌🏾

[@amineaouli7216]

so helpful thank you

[@techgames2509]

Can u make a video what think we should check before buying a 2nd hand apple watch

[@thecollegepicker]

I have one on my channel showing how to check for icloud lock

[@techgames2509]

@@thecollegepicker i see that one also . i have a question can i connect series 3 with a iphone 11 pro which one is update in latest ios ?

[@yeahkaysaidit]

What do you do if it stops and says connect to wifi and it’s connected to the WiFi ?

[@jimmyconnor9541]

So My mom just got a new phone and the old one is also no longer useable and trying to connect the watch to a new phone, will restarting/deleting everything on the watch also delete everything (pics,contacts) on you’re phone? Or does it just delete the watch data from you’re phone

[@MRAC91653]

If u reset/erase from the watch settings then it will only affect the watch is what I understand it to be from the video, which makes sense

[@thecollegepicker]

Yeah it's just watch data.

[@athenawalsh3109]

Amazing, thank you for your help!

[@thecollegepicker]

You are welcome

[@thatonebubblytrio]

Omg Tysm it paired with my moms old phone lol so this helped a lot

[@thecollegepicker]

Glad it helped ☺️

[@thatonebubblytrio]

@@thecollegepicker awe ty new subscriber for sure ❤️

[@AleahLacy]

What if you don’t know the password

[@Wonderlimee]

Thank you this worked!

[@thecollegepicker]

You're welcome! Happy to help =)

[@blsr3771]

Thanks for the video it was very helpful. My software on my old iphone was up to date but I still had to do the 2 hour watch-9 update - my old iphone did not support that level. I had my old iphone and had to unpair the watch from that phone - it ask before doing the reset (during the unpair) if I wanted to retain my cellular plan. I chose that option and I didn't need to set up cellular during the watch install on the new phone. I did restore from an old backup but the backup was 3 years old!!! I didn't realize that apple wasn't backing it up to my old phone. The unpair forces a backup to be stored on the iphone storage. If I had know this, I would have unpaired before I did my last icloud backup on the old phone and that backup would have been placed on the new iphone during the restore of the backup.

[@thecollegepicker]

You are very welcome, happy to help and glad you got yours going!

[@ReemAlSaleh-w2w]

Thank you that was ver helpful

[@thecollegepicker]

Glad it helped

[@eddykukubo2771]

Thank you for your help.

[@thecollegepicker]

You are welcome

[@anjolorr]

Is there an alternate way to do this without losing information because my phone was disabled but my iCloud backup wasn’t up to date(meaning I lost everything), so I’m trying to see if I can transfer the info on my Apple Watch to my phone.

[@kimnecaise8657]

Did you figure this out?

[@nicolelester2417]

I am also wondering if you figured this out

[@nicolelester2417]

I am also wondering if you figured this out

[@anjolorr]

Unfortunately, I didn’t. I had to just follow the way he did in the video.

[@iananono9083]

I called Apple Care a couple times about this. They said there is no way to save the watch data into the new phone. So if you don’t have the old phone, your data is lost. Can someone please explain to me why this is NOT the most STUPID restriction EVER.

[@creativeriver]

Thank you! Thank you 🎉 Thank you 🙏

[@KayleenPike-r2x]

That's the thing I forgot my Apple ID to my old one and I don't have access to it and I'm not into it like I can't get into it so I'm stuck. I'm never gonna be able to use it anyway there's no way.

[@erfanmojahed4056]

yo your jnco vid helped so much

[@thecollegepicker]

Happy to help 🤝

[@steve0923]

What if you have a cellular version

[@davidpotter1975]

Thank god for your video.

[@thecollegepicker]

You're welcome

[@charanpreetparmar5506]

My activity ring doesn’t show my calories, move and stand activity since i have repaired with my new iphone16

[@UrbanOverlanding]

I came here to tell you that's not an apple watch in the thumbnail, to only realize that's probably why it's not an apple watch in the thumbnail 😅 Great content, as always helpful.

[@thecollegepicker]

Lol 🤣 Baited. Thx!

[@MIKExMASSACREx]

It keeps telling me not connected to internet when I try and update 😊

[@kristenpage9840]

Mine won’t pair at all. So I can’t update it at all. I thought this video was a workaround

[@sakurateresamusic]

Thank you! This was of great help!!!!

[@thecollegepicker]

You're welcome! 🤝

[@AgathaCribb]

Thank You so much :)

[@thecollegepicker]

You are welcome

[@monikakrzepczak9072]

Thank you :)

[@HallieShepard-cs3qk]

I got a completely knew Apple ID so it won’t let me in what do I do

[@shishi1976]

Thank you very much !!!!

[@thecollegepicker]

Glad it helped!

[@LynHuffine]

Why mine can’t

[@mrradio2187]

I was 'thinking' about a new iPhone upgrade but you just convinced me to hold off, sorry Apple....

[@thecollegepicker]

Hold out as long as possible. =)

[@soulheaven1964]

Mine was saying 20 hours to install

[@nazirahnajib3773]

Thanks . It works

[@thecollegepicker]

Good work =)

[@unchamss]

It’s asking old password… what to do?

[@courageiwendi6639]

How about the activation lock ?

[@thecollegepicker]

Parts only

[@UniqueXx_]

this didn’t help my apple watch is stuck on a screen with the apple sign and some words

[@Joshua-ge8jv]

I have iCloud lock that I don’t have my old iCloud info

[@masterchief8855]

Nice

[@thecollegepicker]

Tech Rescue 🤣

[@redshirtmodels5757]

Okay but how do I pair my apple watch with my Samsung??

[@thecollegepicker]

Unfortunately that feature is not available yet.

[@nick92065]

You do not need to erase your data.

[@amarsharra2010]

Then how

[@crazyman6099]

This is why I HATE APPLE

[@bibisolo7019]

Errueb203 canon

[@AbigailKelly-un5vk]

Do all of ur fitness awards stay or erase? Xx

[@paulsastroutomo4273]

Thank you sharing this great tutotial👍

[@kekebrown9800]

this was so helpful thank you so much

[@thecollegepicker]

You are welcome.

[@catherineHaley1959]

Thank you so much ❤