How do I fix this so I can retrieve my AppleWatch backups? Even though I try to restore it, it still reverts to a blank slate.
Why does AppleWatch wipe all my data with every iOS update?
Are you UPDATING your iPhone or RESTORING it to iOS 9?
If you restore your iPhone, you will most likely end up wiping the Watch as well since whenever a Watch is un-paired from the phone, it is wiped.
I restored it as a part of the developer update for iOS9. Prior to iOS9, on iOS8, this happened for each time there was an update released. I don't understand why I would lose data if I can back-up my iPhone and my iPad and have all of the same apps, settings, and data. There is a 'restore from backup' option upon completing the update, but each time I also have set-up the watch preferences again (age, ***, height, weight) etc. for Activity. It wipes all my previous Activity history. I'm not sure why the back-up even exists because if it were truly a back-up, it would have this data and I wouldn't need to set-up the watch preferences again like it was a brand new Apple Wath each time.
Agreed - seems ridiculous that you can backup everything else but then you lose all your data. Developers are hardcore device users and will have built up a lot of activity data since release and then because we update to a beta for testing we lost it??