Buying a new Apple Watch Series 3 and plan to sell your older Apple smartwatch? Here’s how to prepare it for selling.
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Open the “Settings” app on the Apple Watch and go to “General.”
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Scroll down and choose “Reset”
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Tap on “Erase All Content and Settings”
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Enter the passcode for the Apple Watch
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Scroll down and confirm you wish to reset the Apple Watch and erase all data from the device
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Once you confirm the reset, a spinning wait indicator will appear on the screen for quite some time, eventually followed by an Apple logo with an indicator around that.
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You may also need to unpair your watch from your iPhone. To do so:
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Keep your Apple Watch and iPhone close together as you unpair them.
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Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
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Go to the My Watch tab and tap your watch at the top of the screen.
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Tap the “i” next to the watch that you want to unpair.
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Tap Unpair Apple Watch.