Apple Watch App Not Working After iOS 14 Update

Sad to find out a backup and restore was the only way, hopefully Apple is more than aware and comes out with a fix soon, especially with the holidays near. First real major disappointment with Apple I am sorry to say.

Hi! I had this same problem and was on line with multiple apple technicians and none of them helped. However, I was able to fix it one simple step after hours of trying different methods.

1) Erase Apple Watch (Make sure its backed up)

2) Pair Apple Watch with someone else's iPhone but stop at the part where they want them to agree to the conditions.

3) This should allow you to finally delete the app and for me, after redownloading it, it worked fine and I paired it with my phone.

Hopefully that helped!

This was helpful but not as intended. I tried this but funnily enough when I went to storage and found the Watch App it actually offered me the opportunity to delete the App from the phone (I'm iPhone X running ios 14.3). So I had the shot and I took it. Reinstalled from App Store. App was working again but couldn't sync with phone. As my phone was less than a day old I figured I didn't have any data worth a dam so I erased my watch and went through the setup again. Seems to be working so far.

I have an iphone XR and an apple watch 6. My watch app on my phone kept glitching and i couldnt open it. What the apple tech had me do that fixed it was go on my phone to my settings and click your name at the top and sign out of everything you’re connected to. Then go in and reset my password for icloud. He believes the issue is my passwords were mismatched so it was having trouble connecting them. After logging out and resetting my password, i went into settings>general>iphone storage and find the watch app and click delete. Then go into the app store and re-download. Not sure if this will work for others, but after days of apple support and messing with it, this worked for me.

I.purchased series 6 Apple Watch, it worked as it should for a day, now watch app won’t open and can’t delete the watch app because it is saying it’s paired with my phone. Issue is that there’s no Bluetooth connection. What a waste of money and time. Anyone know of a fix that doesn’t involve back up and restore? Is Apple solving the problem?

I am having the same issue and it’s extremely frustrating! I have been waiting for a couple years to splurge and purchase the Apple Watch and now this is happening. I have the iPhone 12 and purchased my new watch the beginning of December. 😡

Here is what I did to resolve an issue with the Bluetooth and watch app on my iPhone 12. Reset your watch settings/general/reset. Back up your phone. Might take a little while. Then erase all content and settings in settings/general/rest. Then restore your phone from back up. Before you connect your watch to the phone press and hold the watch app until you see delete app. Then go to App Store and download the app again. Then start up connection per new watch

Thank you so much for the detailed information Rach_01. But the problem is that, I am unable to start my watch :(. When I did a forced restart, I see only the infinite loop which is very frustrating. I have been talking with so many Apple support but they dont seem to take this issue seriously but blame saying "ITS UNDER OUT OF WARRANTY" and we cant help it? How can they say this when the issue is happening after the WatchOS and iOS update???

I have the same issue, and it is terrible that we still do not have a solution from apple, at least they would have to distribute information that the latest update is not entirely stable for iPhone and watch owners.

unhappy.

Hmm, that’s annoying. Have you tried unpairing the watch from your phone? Or you could try pinging your Apple Watch from the watch app to try and force it out of the Apple logo screen. I’m sure you’ve been looking around for solutions, but here’s a website with some things to try if you haven’t already https://macreports.com/apple-watch-is-stuck-on-the-apple-logo/

so i have just received my new iwatch 6 and i could pair it because the watch app kept crashing. So made sure my phone was backed up and i factory reset my iphone11. Then i restored my phone and deleted the watch app and reinstalled it, now it's working. Apple really need to developed a better troubleshoot for the watch.

Thank you to the person that suggested to go to the storage and turn the watch to offload app. Once I did that I could delete the app. I have spent over 10 hours trying to fix my watch and it finally worked .

This worked for me!!! Thanks for the detail in explaining how to get them properly disconnected so I could start fresh! The quick unpair just after turning phone back on took a few tries but it worked!

I get pairing then the update and it just sits there