This morning I used my Apple Watch to locate my iPhone. Swipe up, tap the phone icon, and somewhere in the caverns of my couch a phone chimes. After flipping cushions and digging through crevices, I disassembled the entire couch with a sawzall and found my wife's phone. (Which made me question whether my hearing was off, so I pressed the button again, and it chimed again.) Her phone repeatedly responding to my watch. I picked up her phone and started rummaging around again for mine. Decided to try pinging it again, and my phone finally did beep, in the kitchen.
- Why was my watch, paired only to my phone, able to make another phone beep?
- While it was inconvenient at the moment and a little worrisome, being able to locate multiple phones in a household with the watch would be could be convenient if I knew how to control it. How can I specify from the watch, which phone to locate?
Best Answer
The watch only pings one phone in my experience (but many watches can pair and ping to one phone)- the phone it paired to from the Watch app. I would first start by looking at each phone in question - check which watches are paired to which phone.
To confirm, I assume are using this tap to summon the phone.
On the fixing, I always like to unpair the watch on the phone I have as primary. Then back that phone up to iCloud and to disk using Finder / Music / iTunes. That way my health and activity data are all in one backup. Then I re-pair the watch with the phone I prefer.