WatchOS7 update problems

My series 3 has had less than 8 hours of battery life since upgrading to os7. Siri cannot make any reminders. My watch constantly disconnects from WiFi and my phone. Complications never load. Not a single new feature was made available for series 3 watches but this update essentially broke my watch.

not happy.

I am having similar issues and on the Apple Watch Series 4 and noticed all health related apps and sensors are out of service. I did briefly get intermittent use of the heart rate monitor but it was very sporadic. Use of the EKG monitor causes a kernel panic or crash. HELP

My husband and I both have series 4 watches and have been having this issue. His has been worse than mine, with his being completely unusable and Apple having to send us replacements. Our issues started when we updated our phones to iOS 14. He never had a chance to update his watch to watch OS 7, and I updated recently per Apple and no luck. He got his replacement watch and tried adding it via backup and it still had the power cycle issue...it has it even when wiped and added as a new watch. I haven’t tried adding my replacement, because I am convinced the issue is not with the watch and is with iOS on the phone...we updated to 14.0.1. And it does it less for him, but the issue hasn’t stopped. My watch has been unpaired while waiting on my replacement.

For reference, my watch was randomly soft resetting every second or so, for an hour straight a few random hours a day. My husband’s was doing it NONSTOP, he could maybe interact with his watch for 5 seconds in an hour due to the cycling.

I talked to Apple support. They said they are aware of this issue but didn't elaborate. Their "solution" was to unpair watch, backup phone, reset phone to factory, restore phone from backup and re-pair watch.

The person claimed this is a known solution to this problem. However I'm not convinced and won't be trying it as it's high risk. I think this is just their default guide for any problems before investigating further.

Apple Watch 3

Serious battery issues after upgrading to Watch OS 7.

Unpair watch and re-pair watch .. same problem

Setup as new ... same problem

Update to 7.01... same problem and reboot randomly is coming !!!!

My watch is unusable !!!!! FIX IT NOW

I still have WatchOS 6.2.8 on my series 3, but iOS 14.0.1 on iPhone SE. After switching the watch off and on it started resetting quite often when I was trying to set up some properties via the Watch app. 

It seems the problem may be in the iOS 14 or both. A downgrade to WatchOS 6 may not solve the reset problem. 

Delays in syncing with iPhone after waking up. This i believe have to do with the upgrades to the new soft ware. It’s not right. Apple needs to do better with regards to past products.

same thing happened to to one of my expensive older Mac book pro.

I can’t use it anymore. My photo libraries can’t transfer to iCloud. They shut it off from my old Mac Pro. Bad apple! Bad!

same issues for me. Apple please address this ASAP. This os plagues current users as well as anyone that buys a product still sold on site and Apple stores. My series 3 before this upgrade was working excellent, as soon as I updated nothing but issues, constant restarts, and issues loading complications.

I have the same issue on my S3. Watch is totally useless after IOS14 and WOS7.

Rebooting and disconnecting several times per day.

Unpairing or set it up as a new watch didn’t help either.

FIX IT ASAP, WATCH IS USELESS!!!!!

Thought it was fixed when I tried this also but spoke too soon. Not rebooting as often but still 2-3 times a day and if I can’t have any complications such as heart rate then it’s just an expensive watch.

Same it worked great till update and I don’t have 300.00 dollars to buy a new 6 watch so I’m out it crashed 3 or 4 times a day an I’ve done everything they have said to do that don’t correct nothing so basically to the junk drawer I can’t use it nor reliable and Apple does this to get you to buy the new product how they forget we just went through a major shutdown and money is not something a lot of us have.

My Apple Watch 3 with Watch OS 7.01 along with my iPhone 7+ with IOS 14.01 crashed and shut down with lock out several times a day after updating both watch 7 and iPhone 14. What I did was reset my watch 3 with only two watch faces. After reset and restore I have not had a lock out or a shut down in almost three days. Not sure why others that reset continue to have problems. My watch is working just like it did before the updates. Hopefully it will remain this way. Hope is info helps.

Apple Watch series 3 update 7, is made by apple to damage your series 3 watch. The want you to buy the series 5 or 6 !!!

reason #1- you can not reinstall update #6 !

peoples think back !!! Apple did the same with the iPhone, years ago. Apple forced a update on the older iPhones, and after the update, theses old iPhone did not work anymore.

items are overpriced, and not more made in USA. Apple is too greedy. In Europe Apple is avoiding to pay sales taxes.

and now apple willingly damaging our series 3 watches. Did you ever Troy to trade a series 3 watch in for a newer model ? Only up to $100, but has to be in new condition, everything else you get less.

peoples is a scam !!! 09/29/2020

do not update your series 3 watch with the iOS 7 !!

Another Series 3 owner with constant rebooting issues here. I experienced this with the beta and sent multiple feedback when it was doing this then and it appears nothing was addressed for the final release. Apple fix this now so I don’t have a issueless $200 piece of aluminum on my wrist!

My Apple Watch 3 has started going to a black screen every day at 11:30am. The only way to get it awake is to push the side button and it reboots. It takes about 5 minutes, then says revalidating cards. Also losing phone connection and asks if I want to connect via my wife's iPhone SE. Battery is also running out by 17:00 each day. All this is after the upgrade to watch OS 7.0.

Do something about this please Apple.