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Apple Watch does not recognize my contacts with phone number

Hello 😊 The only remark I have about the watch is that it does not recognize my contacts with phone numbers ?! of 20 people recognizes of 2 ?! where is the problem?!

and on contacts-Favorites also my favorite people don't come out ?!

thank you very much! 😊


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Posted on Mar 27, 2021 3:45 PM

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Posted on Mar 27, 2021 5:13 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Mar 27, 2021 5:13 PM in response to denislav144

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


Apple Watch does not recognize my contacts with phone number

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