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Watch app on iPhone won’t open??

can somebody help me with this? I recently acquired myself a series 5 Apple Watch from my cousin, it’s all good and nice for a day until all of sudden I can’t open my Watch app in my iPhone.

The watch itself is fine. I thought the problem lies with the watch so I unpaired the device with my phone. However when I wanna re-pair the devices, my Watch app keeps stubbornly crashing so I can’t use my watch for now. (As I need to pair it with my phone.. but the Watch app won’t open.) is there any solutions for this problem? I hope someone have an answer for this soon enough.

Apple Watch Series 5, watchOS 7

Posted on Oct 10, 2020 10:52 AM

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Feb 23, 2021 8:32 AM in response to Rach_01

You are an absolute SAINT of a human being.. did want to note that I️ went in to the find my location app and turned it off but it still asked for password. Might want to edit to say you need to stop sharing location in settings. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Feb 24, 2021 4:30 AM in response to Rach_01

hi Rach_01,

Thank you so much for this, I finally can use my watch again. I restored my phone but the watch app wouldn't open, finally, this process help me open it and pair my watch again. to add to what I did, I did not have to open the app I directly deleted it after hard reset.

thanks again. hope this helps

Mar 14, 2021 9:59 AM in response to Rach_01

I tried following your steps and it was going good until it asks me permission to unpair so then I have to type in the long password to my Apple ID but I don’t have enough seconds to do that because that app kicks me out how do I deactivate permission?

Apr 4, 2021 8:12 PM in response to Oonly

I solved this by upgrading to the iPhone 12, go figure. This bug is still awful and Apple should provide a fix for this ridiculous issue. This is absolute nonsense how people are still commenting on this thread and following this outrageous process as a workaround to restoring their entire iPhone. This is because of a software issue ......... @Apple be better and fix it!!! An Apple rep in Staten Island said that he’s even heard of two instances of this recently and restores of the folks iPhones worked for them.

Nov 25, 2020 6:21 AM in response to khyber289

Just started with the same issues & I do not have an old iPhone around for it to ‘pair to’ accidentally. Tried every other suggestion on this thread, hoping it is an update fix!?