HigherPower94 wrote:
My Apple Watch Series 11 is still paired to my broken iPhone 13 Mini. The phone is not usable anymore. It is turned on but locked and due to the shattered screen I can't type in the code. Siri is turned off.
I've recorded an extremely important bike ride on the Apple Watch on both, the Strava app and the built in workout app. Both can't be synced due to the locked phone.
I'm not planning to get the phone repaired as I will 100% upgrade to another phone and I understand that unpairing the watch and pairing it to my other iPhone 12 Mini that I still have will also mean erasing all contents on the watch which obviously would be a nightmare.
So - does anyone have any idea on how to rescue this one bike ride without paying 100€ for a screen replacement?
If your Health and Fitness data are synced to iCloud, then when a new iPhone is set up, those data will sync to it when you log in with the same Apple ID.
But ... if as you say the watch data you want to get were never synced to the phone, then it never made it to iCloud.
The only way to get data off the watch is through the paired iPhone. So I believe you will need to pay to repair the iPhone screen. Only you can decide if that data is worth that price. But a caveat, it is possible that the screen repair will result in a wipe of the iPhone.
It is possible you will be able sell the iPhone after repairing its screen, so you might recover the cost of doing that.
P.S. Do you have a bike computer also recording rides? I use a Garmin 840 bike computer (in addition to the Apple watch) and the Garmin data are synced via the cloud to an online repository and can be viewed on a computer and/or an iPhone as well.
