Apple Watch Series 2 Update to 6.2 issues. iPhone X on version 13.4.1

Short version...make sure your watch is connected to WiFi with a proper password!!

I too had this problem, "Unable to update software", so I followed the the pointers above about turning off WiFi. Then I reached a point where a message said in order to resume downloading to the watch, connect to WiFi. I turned WiFi back on for both devices.

Then it dawned on me as I was trying to to connect the watch to WiFi once again, I had recently made a password change to my WiFi. I hadn't realized that the watch needed to be updated as well. Once I re-connected to the WiFi with a proper password, all worked as expected. By the way, when connecting your watch to your WiFi and it needs an updated password, you will get a message on your phone asking to share its password. Makes it super easy!

I had been using my watch for well over a week before attempting this software update. Apparently, it can still operate just fine without a WiFi connection and there are no messages alerting to the fact that the watch couldn't re-connect to WiFi...at least none that I saw.

Hope this helps someone else out there!!

SAME!!! I’d been trying to update for weeks, so glad I found this solution. I had to turn off WiFi on my watch, then go into the upgrade screen on the watch and open the upgrade screen on my phone. I had to keep pressing the update button on the watch, the iPhone update screen kept flickering as did the update screen on the watch, and then it finally caught on the phone and started updating!!! YES!!!! Turning off WIFI and making sure the watch is connected via Bluetooth and on the charger is definitely the fix!!!

I tried switching WiFi off, but as soon as I placed it on the charger it restarted. This was after several attempts to update the watch. I can report that I repeated the process of starting the update from the watch with my wife's Apple Watch, and that worked as well. I think our friends at Apple need to do better testing on these updates before rolling them out.

I had mine on the charger and turned the WiFi off on both my iPhone and watch. Then I turned my phone WiFi on and continued the update. I noticed after the update that the WiFi was back on again on my watch, but it was off evidently long enough for the update to take. Mysterious fix.

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Apple Watch Series 2 Update to 6.2.5 Issues. Would not install and received

install error message. Followed the the step to "turn WIFI off on

watch". After following this step, downloaded with no problems. After

trying many things this step worked perfect.

"Thesis"

I had the same problem, turned off Wi-Fi and mine updated also, so thanks for the tip! I've been trying every day since the update came out.

Mine had the same issue, didn't passed the Verifing... phase.

My watch didn't had the right WiFi network, I had to change it directly on the watch and share my password from my iPhone

I have an iPhone 8 and this tip worked for me also.

I had exactly the same problem and turned off the WiFi. The problem is gone.... It started the update... thank you very much!!!

Thank you. This has been a nuisance. Turning off WiFi solves the issue.

When I deleted the corporate email account, the installation update was successful. the problem was in the company's security rules, which also applied to my Apple watch.

Finally got it to load after 14 attempts with various combinations. This sequence worked for me - Reset , unpaired, and re-paired the watch, loaded from watch-fail, loaded from phone-fail, loaded From phone -success. Again looks like time to plan to buy a new watch / 8 days of fiddling around with watch upgrades is a real deterrent from continued use. Not the brand experience I’ve come to expect from Apple. Had the same sort of retry upgrade on my wife’s watch.

My own iphone xs is running 13.5.

AW is currently running 5.3.6

Another iphone 6 i tried to pair, runs iOs 12.

By factory reset mode i mean that AW is like it comes from factory. So it is totally erased and empty.

if try to pair it with ip xs, it starts project normally. Watch app says in the beginning that you must have latest software in our AW to pair, want to update now? Other optionn is to cancel pairing. If i try to update it starts updating, but after downloading it gives error: could not finnish update, your telephone is not connected to internet.

when i pair it with ip 6, it goes well, because there is option: continue pairing without update. After pairing everything works. Watch app offers update to 5.3.7. (I suppose that is latest watch os that supports ios12). When i start updating to that, it is same story: could not update, telephone not connected to internet. Tried to shut off wifi from AW when updating, no help. So it doest not help that AW is working with ip6, because i want it to work with my xs.

can not update from AW settings, since watch os 5 does not have that option.

I too had been trying and had given up, but thought I’d search for an answer again, found this, tried it and it is installing as I speak. Thank you.