Siri voice is not downloading while watch is charging

I just reset my watch because my battery took a huge hit after installing 8.0.1. So I restored to factory and now I am trying to download the voice I want for siri. However, it continually says "Waiting to download. Download will occur when your watch is charging and connected to wifi." But, it's been connected to wifi for a long time, and on the charger for like an hour and the voice I chose is still spinning and not downloading. I even turned the watch off completely and restarted it and it is still not downloading at all. Is there any way I can go back to Watch OS 7? I don't care for 8. Battery life took a huge hit and I am finding problems like voices not downloading in OS 8.

Apple Watch Series 5

Posted on Oct 20, 2021 6:07 AM

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Oct 24, 2021 8:25 AM in response to amits97

It finally downloaded for me, but it took all night. I left wifi on then turned it off in the morning. Normally I don't care about slow downloads, but I don't like using wifi as it drains the watch, already having horrible battery life, even with everything turned off. Granted, it lasts two days for me after only having it for 15 months, but that is with most notifications off, wifi off, location off, all the health stuff and exercise stuff off, the always on display turned off (this REALLY depleted my battery to where I had to charge the next day about halfway through), brightness turned all the way down. Even with all these settings turned off, I get about 2 days battery life, which is ok but I think Apple could do better. I don't know, thought, since the watch is so tiny I'm sure they can't do very much with the battery.

Oct 20, 2021 6:53 AM in response to aggressivility

I looked at so many posts on here and all over the net about the same issue. It seems to be a bug that was never fixed or addressed. I think I am just going to disable Siri permanently since it doesn’t work at all. Even tapping on the default voice i see the spinning thing of death and the same message at the bottom “waiting to download when you’re on WiFi and charging.”

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