I have been trying to update my Apple Watch to Watch OS 7.5 for several hours now and it keeps getting stuck on pause. My watch is on the charger and I am connected to WiFi. It starts the process and then pauses with about 10 minutes to go. I have powered my phone off and back on. I've put unpaired and re-paired the watch. Nothing seems to be working.
Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 6
Hello ccross22,
Thanks for reaching out in Apple Support Communities! We understand you're having trouble updating your Apple Watch, and we're happy to help you with this.
Please make sure your iPhone is up-to date first: Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
Make sure that your Apple Watch is at least 50 percent charged.
Try updating your Apple watch both way. You can update it from the iPhone or the Apple Watch itself:
Update your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Let us know what happens.
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I'm on wifi. I unpaired and tried a factory reset and it still pauses.
My iphone 11 pro is updated.
The phone and watch have a full charge.
The apple watch 3 GPS only has only 8GB of internal storage, most of that is taken up by the operating system and other critical software. So installing a major update is not going to be easy;
1.Unpair and erase your watch to factory settings.
2.Set up and pair the watch again,but setup as new not from a backup.
3.Update the watch, which now has enough free memory to update
4.Unpair and erase the watch a second time
5.Re-pair the watch with your phone, but choose the backup you made in step 1,another backup is made in step 4 but don't choose that one.
Watch Update stuck on Pause
