Inability to Upgrade to Watchos 7.0.1

Thankfully os 7.0.3 seems to have fixed all issues 😬

I had the same issue. Followed the advice and eventually it updated. Took ages to do. Since then I have had two random black screens which I’ve needed to hard restart to get the watch functioning again. I guess that will be the case till the next software fix.

This exact thing has been happening to me! I unfortunately still have not been able to complete the update. I followed all the trouble shooting apple provided. I unpaired my watch and set it up as a new one for the update and it starts the update but will pause several times and get stuck on the pauses and never fully download. I've forced restarted my phone and watch and have deleted the upgrade to try again countless times and the same thing happens over and over. Apple support also had no answer for me on how to fix this issue.

Same problem here. Incomplete update. Watch rebooting every every few minutes and battery draining much faster than normal (6 hours vs 24 hours+) iPhone randomly says 6.0.8 up to date or preparing update to 7.0.1. Tried all fixes and advice available but no good. Extremely frustrating!

Tried to update again yesterday after taking 4 hours to charge and 30 mins to drain! Currently after the attempt it’s still on 6.2.8 but not constantly restarting and not draining battery, so I think I’ll leave the update for now. I’ll wait to see how others get on with it.

Facing the same problem, unable to update to 7.0.2. Same error message unable to verify check internet connection” although it has downloaded the 80.5 MB and updated but when started preparing. Error message was received. Apple kindly do the needful.

The same issue here. I have two watches series 4, first, 40mm had no issues to make an update from 7.0.0 to 7.0.2. unfortunate the second one 44mm fails on the same way. I have unpaired it , erased all the content and defined as a new watch. I have checked it with 4 different wifi networks. The phone is Iphone XR. I have troubleshooted it with IOS 14.0 and 14.0.1. still not able to update the version of my watch. So, also looking for potential solution.

Also to follow on from my previous message the update 7.0.3 is only for Apple watch series 3 models. So this does not fix the issue for anyone on series 4 upwards. Can anyone from Apple please respond to the messages above as this seams to be a wide spread problem.

Same same. Apple watch serial 3, current watchos is 7.0.1, iphone os is IOS14.1. Tried everything I dig on internet/youtube to update it to Watchos 7.0.3. Watch app tells me I didn’t connect to the internet.

Same story here! I’ve spent the last 5 hours (just got delivered 6 hours ago) trying to get my brand new Series 6 to update from 7.0 to 7.0.2. Same errors. Absolutely nothing works. Even though I’m fairly confident it will be fixed eventually, I almost want my $800 back just on principle. Shame on Apple. Unacceptable for a company who prides themselves on making things that “just work”. Boo.

I’m having this same problem, but with Apple Watch series 4.

I have tried restarting both my phone and my watch, and already downloaded the update twice. When I try to install the update I receive this same message of not being connected to the Internet :/

But the WiFi connection is good and stable.

I have this exact same issue. iPhone XS on iOS 14.1 and a brand-new Apple Watch Series 6 44mm that arrived with WatchOS 7.0.1. I've tried everything I'd seen documented online to upgrade to WatchOS 7.0.2, and nothing works. This is really frustrating and absolutely tarnishes the experience of buying a new watch.

Yeah I tried ALL of those things as well. I think I unpaired and started over 4 times last night. Tried every method of rebooting both phone and watch, deleted and re-downloaded the update multiple times, etc. It’s obviously a widespread problem. It’s doubtful, but hopefully someone at Apple is paying attention to this and all the offer threads about this issue. #updategate

Same here, it just suddenly worked for me as well. My new S6 was just updated from 7.0.1 to 7.0.2 and I did it from the watch itself. Had not made any changes or attempt and had decided to try again after 12 hours.

I've been tried to update the watch at least 80 times already. Just today, I've tried to update it 7 times. The result is the same. The watch's preparing bar is stack on the same spot all the time (image attached) and fails. Maybe I have another issue. I'm not sure already.