Apple Watch Series 2 - Unable to Update to watchOS 6.2.8

i have the EXACT error, and symptoms as you...except on a series 3 and XS. i've literally spent the last 4 days trying to get this to thing to update as well.

i had unpaired and tried to reset it, then i got into a loop of pairing, unpairing issues. i couldnt even set it up as a new device.

something is very wrong here, literally the apple watch seems to have bricked itself.

I am having the exact same issue with my Apple watch 2 trying to update it to OS 6.2.8. I unpaired it by accident and now when I try to update it to re-pair the device it says I’m not connected to the Wi-Fi. I have turned off and of both the watch and phone several times to no avail.

Same issue, with a Series 2 also. My watch was not accurately recording steps into Apple Health so I mistakenly agreed to update my Watch OS. It has been two days now of frustration trying to get past the "Unable to Verify" error message. This is insane.

I do hope this is fixable. I had no plans to upgrade my Apple Watch and if IOS 14 bricks it, well I likely won't get another.

i managed to eventually re-pair the watch to the iphone.... but i still cannot update it to 6.2.8 or 7.0.

to re-pair, i just kept retrying everytime it failed. i must've done it over 70 times even. i had tried to hold down the crown, and do a reset and then try again.. but it made no difference. just keep retrying then eventually it will pair and you can proceed with the rest of the setup to get it working again.

once it pairs however, please do NOT try to erase content and settings. it will cause you to go into a loop again of being unable to verify.

like i said, once paired again, the software update continues to fail with "cannot verify as you're not connected to the internet".

this really sucks, to say the least. i wish someone from Apple would read this and help out somehow.

My watch finally updated. So I have zero idea if there was an issue with servers or it was just the one lucky time out of the dozens of times I unpaired, paired, downloaded the install (a 2 hour process) and then got the "unable to verify" message. But for whatever reason yesterday morning it got past the "verifying" stage and went to installing. I just checked and I now have 6.2.8 on there.

I will not update my series 2 any further after this debacle.

Same here! Mine finally let the 6.2.8 update go through yesterday and I was able to pair my watch again. I don’t know what the problem was but I just kept trying throughout the day and then right before bed and after a few days it finally took. I won’t try updating it again so as to not go through this again.

My issue was when I would get to the “Install” phase I would click on it then I’d get a message saying I wasn’t connected to Wi-Fi which I was.

I talked to apple support and they said the Apple Watch series 2 is not compatible with iOS 14..... This is so wrong and now we’re being forced to upgrade devices.