Use Family Setup
Until watchOS 7, every Apple Watch needed to be paired with an iPhone. It’s been possible to pair multiple watches with one iPhone, but with the expectation that the same person is using them. I know friends who use older watch models at night to track their sleep, for example; or, you might have a stainless steel watch for wearing at the office and an aluminum Nike model when exercising. Your data is shared among all paired watches.
This model falls apart if you want to give a watch to someone in your family who does not have an iPhone to pair it with, such as a child or an elderly parent. The Family Setup option makes it possible to pair several watches with one iPhone, and keep the data on each watch separate.
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