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My new Apple Watch is stuck at ‘unable to verify update the watch OS update couldn’t be verified.

my New Apple Watch series 5 is stuck at update. Error messages received is ‘unable to verify update the watch OS update couldn’t be verified.

Posted on Mar 5, 2021 5:21 AM

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Posted on Mar 11, 2021 8:02 AM

An Apple watch 5 is not new,it was discontinued a while ago.

Has the watch been removed from it's previous owners icloud account?;

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My new Apple Watch is stuck at ‘unable to verify update the watch OS update couldn’t be verified.

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