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iWatch series 1 is not pairing

My iWatch series 1 is not pairing with my iPhone 6s plus and I've tried restarting both devices and nothing happened. Also, I used reset on iWatch and erased everything and nothing happened.


The 6 digits number is not showing for some reason and my iPhone is up to date (13.2.2) and did reset to network settings and same thing.


Please help.


p.s. both devices were paired long ago but now not.





Posted on Nov 17, 2019 12:37 AM

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Posted on Nov 18, 2019 1:27 AM

Sounds like the watch is a 1st generation watch not a series 1,which explains why it did pair a long time ago and not now,a 1st generation watch will only update to watchos4,if your 6s has ios13 on it then it requires the watch to be on watchos6 in order to pair.When you paired the watch long ago your phone was probably on ios 11 or 12 which is why it paired ok.So if the watch is 1st generation it will NOT pair full stop.

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Nov 18, 2019 1:27 AM in response to IHYD

Sounds like the watch is a 1st generation watch not a series 1,which explains why it did pair a long time ago and not now,a 1st generation watch will only update to watchos4,if your 6s has ios13 on it then it requires the watch to be on watchos6 in order to pair.When you paired the watch long ago your phone was probably on ios 11 or 12 which is why it paired ok.So if the watch is 1st generation it will NOT pair full stop.

iWatch series 1 is not pairing

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