WatchOS7 update problems

I am facing this issue too! It’s so annoying. Surprisingly, the series 3 is still on sale and I’m just wondering why anyone would purchase that. That’s why we have the SE now. Good strategy, but what about the older Apple watch users? It cannot unlock my Macbook too sometimes. Is someone from Apple actually reading this thread/working on a fix?

For the last two days my watch 3 has been fine until I get in my car and get out of WiFi range, then it reboots. It doesn’t seem to do it when I go on my bike ride, when it’s running the workout app, just when I drive away.

Yep - all of this - me too. In the last couple weeks, around the time of the upgrade, my watch battery drains incredibly fast. With normal use my watch used to last 1-1.5 days without needing a charge; and now I need to charge it several times throughout the day. This wasn’t a gradual decline either, rather an abrupt failing. My battery health is still 91%, but the watch can’t hold a charge at all anymore. I’ve deleted nearly all apps, push notifications, music, messages, pictures, etc, and it still dies within hours.

Oh, and ever since the update the watch locks out and resets several times a day.

If this is some ploy to get me to buy another watch, no way. I’ll go back to Fitbit.

I’m writing for the third time

now, this is how my story went:

-iOS 14 and watch is 7.0 update-> watch started to reset itself spontaneously several times a day and doesn’t show GPS routes in training

-did a full reset of the watch (not iPhone) and set it up as new- this fixed random reboots and GPS, but there’s a battery drain. It use to hold for two days without walkie talkie enabled, now day and a half (reading this thread this actually seems to be great after this silly update)

-watch OS 7.0.1 came and I was

naive enough to install it- my watch started to reset itself again

-did another “start from the scratch”- set up watch as new AGAIN and it seems to have fixed the reboot issue- it lasted a whole charge without rebooting

I don’t have CarPlay but I do have a Bluetooth enabled FM transmitter. Once it did reboot as soon as I got in the car and for last couple of days I switched that thing off. So it actually could be something related to Bluetooth. I’ll se how it goes tomorrow and let you know. Sad to see I have to charge it every night now (it used to be only every second night). But reading this thread I guess I should consider myself lucky that it’s holding at least a day and without reboots. That’s not how I imagined using my Apple Watch. There is no Genius Bar nor Apple stores in my country. I want to go back to previous watchOS!

greetings from Europe

Having the same issues. Even with the update fix a cooole days ago. Had to completely reset my watch because it wouldn’t connect to phone. Resets several times a day. Activity tracking is also way off!

Exact same issue on my series 3 watch! I also tried everything including a hard reset. It's fine for a day then starts shutting down and locking while it's on my wrist. Will there be a fix soon? Apple! Give us an update PLEASE!!!

I do not have apple car play, and my series 3 is rebooting . So the car play theory is bs.

don’t blame it on someone else !!! Apple damaged our watches.

did your watch work without problems before you got the 7 update ???

there you have it .

I have the same problems. Screw crApple, I'm tired of their lousy updates.

FYI, I did fix the battery problem by unchecking, then re-checking the calendars in my phone. Otherwise, all the rest of the crappy issues still exist.

I hate Apple more and more every "update".

My Apple Watch series 3 (cellular GPS) has also rebooted randomly several times since Watch OS 7 update, battery draining faster. Then last night, it did not store sleep data despite being unlocked on my wrist. And today it will not ping my iPhone X even though it is paired with my phone. Very buggy. I am disappointed too and hope there is a fix soon. I am going to re-pair it with my phone and restart everything, but I am not optimistic until there is an update to address these issues. :(

I contacted apple last night (chat) and they told me they didn't have any complaints about this issue, then proceeded to tell me they had one person earlier in the day with the same issue... and if I already tried to erase and reset and it didn't work then I need to wait for a new update so... thanks Apple.... HUGE help....

My watch is doing the same thing, constantly rebooting and it all started after the update! I have tried the numerous suggestions and nothing seems to work. Hopefully Apple will listen to all the unhappy customers and create a fix for the messed up download quickly!! I have always been an Apple fan, but this is turning off! Apple please put out an update to fix this issue fast!!

My watch seems to be fine today, no reboots so far. And I’m very thankful to Glarus who proposed unchecking and rechecking calendars. It totally worked for me and even my battery life is way better then previous few days! Give it a try. Thank you!

I have a new Apple Watch 5. A few days back I ran out of power after 6- 8 hours. This is very unusual! Thought I bumped off charger during the night. Next day same problem after only 5 hours. Third day was notified that I had a new update. Started but never got past the apple in center and small hash marks all around the dial. What's up! Have had stellar performance till this incident. Can do nothing now. Nothing. Can I get some support on this? 2487616332

I originally posted on the form regarding my Apple Series 4 watch Losing all biometric reading ability, heart rate, EKG, Health meters, etc not working after upgrading to WatchOS 7.

Update: I spoke with Apple and they suggested unpairing and then pairing the watch again. I did this, but in the set up process, I set the watch up as a new Watch. In addition I noted another community member mentioning reducing the number of available watch faces to two helped. I took that measure as well. So far the watch is now functioning normally.

I do not think this affected the battery drain issue I am still running to charge it more than once a day but at least the functionality has returned I hope this is helpful.

So I just read here apple had only “one” customer complaint about the s3 update!!

go figure!!!

just open your eyes ??? Oh I got it ! Apple tech support lost reading glasses, that’s why the software is screwed up.