This is also why you can't force a manual apple watch backup in the same way you can press "back up now" for the iphone's icloud backup service — since your apple watch is constantly syncing information to your iphone, you shouldn't need to manually sync it.. If you use icloud backup with the iphone that your apple watch was paired to, it will have automatically created a watch backup when you last unpaired your watch.. At present, apple's watchos won't connect to wi-fi or icloud directly. even if you brought up each image and took a low resolution screen capture - there isn't a viable way to send them off the device in the absence of the phone to which it was paired..
Choose whether to set up your apple watch from scratch or to restore apple watch from a backup. how to pair an existing apple watch with a new iphone unlike your iphone, there's no easy way to manually make a backup of your apple watch to icloud; backups are intrinsically tied to your iphone's icloud or itunes backup.. A backup file is created when you unpair the apple watch from its connected iphone. these backups are also part of your iphone backups to icloud or itunes, assuming they’re enabled under settings > icloud > backup or in desktop itunes.. The apple watch does, conveniently, automatically back itself up during your regular iphone backup process (so every time your iphone is backed up either by manual itunes backup or via icloud backup your paired apple watch is also backed up)..
