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hey everyone this is steven robles from
apple insider
and today i'm going to be showing you
how to unpair and erase your apple watch
so you can sell it to someone else give
it to a family member and make sure all
your information
is wiped off the apple watch now there
actually is a setting on the apple watch
itself
in the general settings to erase all
content
and settings on the watch but you don't
want to do that directly on the watch
without unpairing it from your iphone
first
if you erase all the content and
settings on the apple watch without
unpairing it
it might be stuck with an activation
lock then if someone tries to set it up
with their device
it might ask for your icloud account and
passcode
for them to unlock the device so before
you do anything with the apple watch if
you're going to sell it
or give it away you want to make sure
you unpair it from your iphone
first a couple things to keep in mind
during this process
the apple watch needs to be at 50
battery or more throughout the whole
process
so if it's low or maybe you need to
charge it keep an apple watch charger
nearby
maybe just keep it on the charger during
the unpairing process
also because your apple watch is
actually going to get backed up to your
iphone
they need to be in close proximity with
each other so plan on having your iphone
and apple watch
near each other at least in the same
room during this whole process
to unpair your apple watch you're going
to actually go to the watch app
on your iphone and you'll see up here
where it says
all watches that's where you're going to
go to find your watch
now if you have any family member
watches or watches you've set up with
the family setup you'll see those here
as well
but this is the apple watch that i'm
wearing now and that's the one i want to
unpair
so tap the i icon next to the watch and
here you'll see the unpair
apple watch option tap
unpair apple watch and you'll see it
asks you to confirm if you want to
unpair the apple watch and that you'll
have to repair the apple watch
after you do this once you tap the
unpair apple watch here
it may ask you to input your icloud
passcode and then it will begin the
backup and
unpairing process during the unpairing
process if your apple watch has a
cellular plan attached to it
it's going to ask if you want to keep
that plan or remove that plan
if you're giving the apple watch to
maybe a child or someone in your
immediate
family and you actually want to keep
that cellular plan you can choose to do
that
and when they pair it with their iphone
that cellular plan will move over
but if you're planning to sell your
apple watch recycle it or
give it to someone not in your family
you probably want to disable that
cellular plan so you're not paying for
it and it's not
active with the next user you can tell
your iphone to stop the cellular plan
but you may also need to contact your
cellular provider to actually make sure
that line is canceled sometimes that
doesn't always go through
or the line gets cancelled without you
actually calling your
cellular provider if you unpair the
watch successfully from the iphone you
shouldn't have to wipe the watch
additionally but you can also do that by
going to the apple watch settings
and then scroll down to where it says
general
and if you scroll all the way down
you'll see the reset option
and you can erase all content and
settings
but remember you don't want to do that
until you unpair the apple watch
from your iphone we hope that video was
helpful for you
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