My watching has been updating and installing software for nearly 72 hours, is this normal? What should I do?I got this watch second hand from a friend who said she had not used it in about 2 years. It is because it's trying to instal serval updates consecutively? Should I just let it keep installing? The screen had said "Checking for Update..." with the spinning circle for about 24 hours now.
Apple Watch
If the watch is running watchOS5 then;
This is a known problem ios13 doesn't seem to like older watches with
watchos5 or below,here are some proven solutions from other forum
members.
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Apple watch 2;
I found a friend, who was on iOS 12 and used his iPhone to pair. Before
pairing it asked to upgrade the watch OS (iOS 13 didn't offer this option).
After I upgraded the watchos I unpaired the watch from the ios12 phone and
then was able to pair it with any iPhone running iOS 13.
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1st gen apple watch;
pairing was successful on the following device (with associated OS)
to pair via bluetooth I used an iphone 7 with iOS 12, after pairing
immediately accepted the watchOS update to version 4.3.2 after everything
was successfully equipped with the last update, unpaired the iPhone and the
Apple Watch a reset (factory settings) all this took some time but afterwards
pairing on an iPhone XR with iOS13 g was a piece of cake.
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May 9, 2020 4:58 AM in response to Hashimsabbah
Just did this with a series1. I had to pair with the original phone and update
the firmware for me to pair correctly. All I did was ask to pair and the update
happened on an iPhone 6.
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nickfit888
Jul 5, 2020 5:23 AM in response to fieryjack
So the “pairing with an old iPhone on iOS 12” trick actually worked for me. I
got a brand new series 3 Apple Watch via a warranty replacement from
Apple. I could not pair the watch to my iPhone X due to the 5.3.7 update
issue. Originally it allowed me to update to 5.3.7 but it was stuck after that.
Based on the advice from “fieryjack” I took an old iPhone 6 (iOS 12.4.7) and
was able to pair my Apple Watch. Once it was paired (watch was fully set
up and synced to the iPhone 6) I tried to update the Watch OS but it said I
needed up update the iOS in order to do so. I unpaired the watch from the
iPhone 6 and paired it with my iPhone X (running iOS 13.5.1). Not sure if
this additional step helped but I chose the manual pair option and this time
the watch gave the option to update to 6.2.6! Once it started updating i
turned off the Bluetooth on my iPhone so that it would update faster using
the wifi network (assuming you are connected to a fast wifi network). I
think it took between 2-3 hours to download the update and after that i was
able to restore my watch using a previous back up.
Thanks again fieryjack for the tip!
Find a phone with ios12 on it if you can and pair your watch to it,it will ask
you to update the watch select yes,after it has updated unpair the watch
from the ios12 phone and then pair it with your ios13 phone.Now you can update to watchos6.
Alternatively contact apple store and see if they will update the watch
through the data/diagnostic port.
Did your friend remove the watch from their phone?,if she didn't then she needs to follow these steps;
An update should take no longer than an hour.
Yes she did remove the watch. Prior to her removing the watch I was unable to start the updating process. Once she removed the watch I was able to update it. It updated which took about 24 hours, then it moved to the installing screen for about 24 hours, and now it’s been checking for updates for close to 24 hours. It’s moving forward, just extremely slowly. When I hit cancel it gives me two options to continue updating or stop the update (screen shot attached).
Thanks for this! I will probably have to go into the Apple store to get it updated, I don’t know anyone with an older phone at the point. It’s not saying the watch software is up to date, but also not moving on from this screen.
What model of phone is it?.
Which version of ios is on the phone?
Which model of watch is it?.
Which version of watchOS it the watch running?
Phone is iphone 7 running on IOS 13.6. Watch is a series 3, I am unsure what the software is because it's stuck on the checking for updates screen still.
Apple Watch update/installation taking a long time
