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watchos 5.3.8

my apple watch is stuck in watchos 5.3.8. I updated my iphone to 14.0.1 a few weeks ago and my watch stopped working. I deleted the watch app and deleted sync to my phone to try to restart it and I keep getting stuck at update your watch os and it says it is up to date at watchos 5.3.8. I no longer even have the phone on my iwatch app so I have no clue what to do now? help! It is a nike apple watch I purchased two years ago and worked perfect until I upgraded my IOS on phone.


Posted on Oct 18, 2020 10:52 AM

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Posted on Oct 18, 2020 12:22 PM

Find a phone with ios12 on it if you can and pair your watch to it,it will ask

you to update the watch select yes,after it has updated unpair the watch

from the ios12 phone and then pair it with your ios14 phone.Now you can update to watchos6.

Alternatively contact apple store and see if they will update the watch

through the watch's data/diagnostic port.

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Oct 18, 2020 12:22 PM in response to taratjn

Find a phone with ios12 on it if you can and pair your watch to it,it will ask

you to update the watch select yes,after it has updated unpair the watch

from the ios12 phone and then pair it with your ios14 phone.Now you can update to watchos6.

Alternatively contact apple store and see if they will update the watch

through the watch's data/diagnostic port.

watchos 5.3.8

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