How can I backup my Apple Watch? This is one of those questions that users often ask us on social networks or even some of our friends and acquaintances. Well Today we are going to see how Apple itself shows us to make these backups.
This is done in a simple way and although it seems complicated to carry out it is easy and we will not even notice it when we do it. It must be clear that our watch must be paired with an iPhone to make these copies, the rest is very easy.
When we make a backup of our iPhone in iCloud or iTunes, this copy will also include the data from your Apple Watch so this is the way in which the watch saves our backups without anyone having to force a copy or a specific option for it. And now comes the million dollar question, what does this backup keep? Well, we leave the answers here too:
- App-specific data (for embedded apps) and settings (for embedded and third-party apps). For example, Maps, Distance, Units, and Mail, Calendar, Stock Market and Weather settings.
- Home screen app layout
- Watch face settings, including your current watch face, customizations, and order
- Dock settings, including order, favorite or recent search, and available apps
- General system settings, such as watch face, brightness, sound, and vibration settings
- Health and Fitness data such as history and achievements, Apple Watch Workout and Activity calibration data, and user-entered data (to back up Health and Fitness data, you need iCloud or a encrypted iTunes backup).
- Notification and time zone settings
- Playlists, albums, and mixes that are synced with Music and Apple Watch settings
- Synced Photo Album (to see album syncs, open the Apple Watch app, tap the My Watch & Photos tab> Synced Album).
In return what is not saved in these copies is- All Bluetooth links and connections, credit or debit cards you have used for Apple Pay on your Apple Watch, and the security code for your Apple Watch.
You see that it is easy to make a backup since it is the iPhone itself with which the Apple smart watch is linked that is responsible for making the copies. But, What if we unlink the watch first? Well, a backup copy is also generated that will allow us to load it once we link the device with the iPhone again.