WatchOS7 update problems

I recently purchased a 6 and had issues with the watch locking on my wrist & had a couple of random reboots. After working with a senior AC advisor & the engineers, next step was wearing it on my opposite wrist as I have a small piece of a tattoo that the watch covered. I didn’t think that was the issue as I’ve worn an Apple Watch for over 3 years (a 3 & a 4) & never had a problem. Well, I’ve had NO issues with it on my un-tattooed wrist. I looked on the Apple website & read about the sensor redesign so for me, it seems that was the problem. I was pretty surprised but glad I found out what it was. I’m already used to having it on the opposite wrist so hopefully case closed for me. Hope others get it resolved also.

since the update to os7 i had constant reboots on my watch , i finally reset my watch back to os 6 and everything fine

There’s a new update available watchOS 7.0.1 let’s hope it solves all the bugs😬😬

I’ve done a complete reset (but kept cellular settings) - so far not noticed a reboot for the last 24hours.

That’s where I’m at right now, set it up all over again and as new, and no third party apps just to see if that helps

The recent update 7.0.3 fixed it. Google that iOS update.

Same problem as everyone else. Had to reset watch to get the update even though I had plenty of space Constantly locks on wrist and keeps rebooting. I did notice however that when I turned off "Raise To Wake" to prolong the battery life it didn't play up. I would be interested to see if this works for anyone else.

Series 3 GPS here. Tried out the watchOS 7 beta back in August. Worst update ever. I kept experiencing bugs such as seconds on the watch face lagging and rebooting twice a day. Sent it back into Apple to get it downgraded and bought another temporarily in the meantime so I wouldn’t lose my streaks. I returned it when I got my old one back. I am glad to be on watchOS 6 right now. watchOS 7’s official release is no better. After reading about how bad it was, especially on the series 3, I am grateful for this storage bug preventing my watch from being automatically updated to this dumpster fire against my will. Otherwise, I’d have to upgrade to a newer, more expensive watch. I will never update to watchOS 7 as long as it continues to be this bad.

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 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!

My series 3 Apple Watch never spontaneously rebooted until watchOS 7.0 and still occurs after the 7.0.1 update. I tried the unpair - pair my watch ‘fix’ and while better, the problem still occurs.

Today I observed and important clue about all of this.

After walking my dog this morning, I went to shower and placed my watch on the sink face down. The heart rate green LEDs are on. That’s odd since they normally go off when the watch detects it is no longer on my wrist. Waited a minute and the LEDs are still on. Put the watch back and had to unlock it (watch knew it was no longer on my wrist) and had it take my heat rate. When that was done, I took off the watch and the LEDs stayed on for another -5 minutes before finally turning off. I have never observed behavior like this before. If this sort of behavior is occurring while on my wrist, no one would even know it. The brightness of the LEDs tells me they would run through the battery charge rather quickly as it has a small battery. I see a lot people are reporting reduced battery life in addition to the reboot issues.

I also wonder if this could be related to reboot issue too. The Apple Watch is very small package that most likely has some thermal limits. Normal operation has it placed against the human body the can be upwards of 90 degrees. The stuck on LEDs would drive up the temperature even more. What does the Apple Watch do when it’s internal temperature gets too high? I would not necessarily feel this on my wrist due the fiberglass back for the heart rate sensor and I might not be in contact with the metal part of the case at this time (now I might expect this isolation to work both ways, but internal temperature is what matters here). In more than one instance of rebooting, it took a minute or two before I saw the Apple logo appear (I kept hitting the buttons trying to bring it back to life during this time). Could the delay be the watch is simply cooling down enough and then it comes back to life?

One other observation, when the reboot issue started, my local weather was hitting the 80’s and now it is just hitting the 60’s. I am seeing fewer reboots now.

This is in the "for what its worth" category: I had a long conversation with an Apple senior tech support advisor 2 days ago. He had me run diagnostics on my iPhone and watch both. He promised to call me back today, which indeed he did. I just got off the phone with him. He told me that Apple was "definitely aware" of the problem that was occurring with "a few" people with series 3 watches. He inferred that the diagnostic logs from my watch and iPhone that he sent to the engineers showed the "problem". He said he was told that "they" were working on a "patch" to fix the problem. But he didn't have any timeline as to when this would be made available. This is the first time of my three separate contacts with tech support where one of the techs even acknowledged there was a problem. All of the others techs said, "This is the first I've heard of this". And this was almost 3 weeks into the fiasco, and they claimed no one else had complained of an issue. Apple needs to have a mechanism for being informed early of major disasters like this. And furthermore, Apple could avoid a great deal of bad user sentiments and negative comments all over the internet if they would publicly acknowledge the problem early and give some guidance as to when the problem would be resolved.

Hi everyone. I noticed something recently. I was having the Same Lock-Ups-Restarts... like everyone else on here.

I shut off the Automatic Updates on my Apple Watch Series 3 and iPhone 11 Pro. The

Lock-Ups-Restarts on my Apple

Watch stopped happening. It’s working perfectly now..

I hate to trample enthusiasm, but I put the 7.0.3 beta on my watch on Thursday and continued to have issues. On Friday I reset the watch to factory and set up as a new watch. I kept the default face which, for me, is the Nike activity face with three complications.

I had stability, with no reboots or Apple screens, from Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. It was beautiful. That also happened to be when I was in the woods, with zero cell signal and no Wifi.

When I returned to civilization/mobile signal, the reboots started again. Not as severe as they had been, and the number of reboots/day is way down... but the watch is still not 100% stable.

Updated my Watch 3 to 7.0.3 this morning, then ran errands all afternoon. No reboots, no lock-outs, everything is fine. Battery life is at 81%, my steps and stand-ups have been recorded correctly.

Seems like this update fixed my issues. iPhone 7+ running 14.0.1, and see now there is an update for the phone as well.