How to make a backup, erase and restore your Apple Watch

The Apple Watch is, own right, a small computer with data backup and security needs. Read on as we show you how to make sure your Apple Watch is backed up, erased and restored just like you would your smartphone.

Whether you want to make sure your watch is backed up to the minute right now, want to clean it before a sale or pass it on to a family member, or if you want to know how to restore a backup after resetting your watch and updating the Mire OS, we are here to help.

How to backup your watch

The Apple Watch performs, conveniently, an automatic backup throughout the usual backup procedure of your iPhone (so every time your iPhone is backed up, either via manual iTunes backup or via iCloud backup, additionally your paired Apple Watch is backed up). Despite this, you might want to force the procedure to immediately back up things so you know the backup on the phone is as up to date as possible.

What is backed and what is not?

Before forcing the backup, let's take a look at what is done and what is not done throughout the procedure (The following lists apply to both routine and forced backups).

According to Apple, The following things are backed up when your Apple Watch is backed up:

• General system settings, like your watch screen, recognized Wi-Fi networks, brightness, sound and haptic settings
• Idiom
• Time zone
• Mail settings, calendar, actions and weather
• Application-specific data and settings, like maps, distance and units
• Health and fitness data, as history, achievements and data entered by the user (to back up health and fitness data, you must use iCloud or an encrypted iTunes backup).

Conversely, the following things are no backup throughout the backup procedure:

• Activity and training calibration data from your Apple Watch
• Playlists synced with your Apple Watch
• Credit or debit cards used for Apple Pay on your Apple Watch
• Passcode for your Apple Watch

Although some of the unsupported items make sense (how not to back up your credit card data), It is important to note that if you have done many workouts that have significantly calibrated your activity data, you might want to skip a forced backup (that would erase those settings).

Force a backup

Remember, and we are emphasizing this again for clarity and to prevent you from adjusting settings that are outside of the backup procedure, no need to force a backup for general backup purposes. Your Apple Watch backs up automatically every time you connect to iTunes and sync / back up the iPhone it is paired with. In addition, a backup is made if you have an automatic backup based on iCloud.

The only time you need to perform the following procedure is if you want to force a backup right before doing some administrative task like cleaning the clock and reinstalling / to Update Watch OS | (and you want to make sure the backup is up-to-date - minute stream). Backing up your iPhone doesn't actually accomplish this up-to-the-minute backup because the backup workflow for Apple Watch goes from Watch to Phone to iTunes / iCloud. If you back up your phone, you are only backing up the latest Apple Watch backup and not creating a new immediate backup of the device.

To force a backup out of routine automatic backups that occur in the background throughout the backup procedure / syncing your iPhone, you will need to unpair the watch from the phone. We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type “We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type” We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type, but right now the only way to force the backup to unlink the device.

To do it, open the Apple Watch app on your paired iPhone and navigate to the Apple Watch menu entry, later select “We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type”. Confirm that you want to unpair the watch and make yourself comfortable. The iPhone takes a few minutes to back up the watch and then unpairs it.

How to clean your Apple Watch

Unpairing procedure clears the clock after backing up. Is there a way to perform the erase procedure (no backup) on an apple watch, despite this, and 1) at this time you do not have access to the original paired device or 2) you never had access when you bought the used watch and the old one The owner did not unpair it.

If you have access to the host iPhone, it is much better to unlink it from the phone, since doing so will create a backup. If the backup is irrelevant (as an example, you are cleaning the watch before selling it on eBay), proceed without worrying about backing up your data.

Restarting the Apple Watch

If you are resetting a watch without a passcode (or a watch for which you have the passcode and can unlock it), the procedure is the next.

To unpair and reset the watch from the watch itself, press the crown of the watch to open the application menu and then select the Settings icon (the small gear). Inside the configuration menu, select "General" and then "Reset".

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Resetting the Apple Watch without the passcode

If you cannot remember your passcode or the previous owner did not properly clean the device before giving it to you, Not everything is lost. You can still perform a factory reset by connecting the Apple Watch as long as you have the charging cable handy. (Without the charging cable connected and applying a charge to the watch, the following steps will not work).

Connect your Apple Watch to the charging cable and then press and hold the side button of the watch until the Power off menu appears. We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type “We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type” We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type “We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type”. We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type “We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type” We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type.

How to restore your watch

Restoring the data on the watch afterwards is very easy and almost identical to the initial pairing procedure when you first pair the Apple Watch to your iPhone.. To restore your data, just open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone with your Apple Watch handy.

Select "Start pairing" and then use the pairing tool (either by scanning the face of your Apple Watch with the iPhone camera or manually entering the pairing data). When the pair is completed, We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type “We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type” O “We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type”.

Please select “We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type” We would really prefer that there was simply an option of type. Once you select the backup, your iPhone will restore all the data and settings from the backup (as described in the first section of this tutorial) and the pairing and restoring procedure will be completed.

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