Initial I watch 7 setup stuck on sign in to account

Hello CraigWar,

Thanks for reaching out in Apple Support Communities for help with pairing your Apple Watch to your iPhone.

We appreciate you letting us know you have already tried restarting the Apple Watch. That was a great first step to try. There are a few more steps you can try found in the article If you can’t pair an Apple Watch with your iPhone.

After giving those additional steps a try, if you still can’t pair the Apple Watch to your iPhone, let us know which iPhone you have the iOS version showing installed when you go to Settings > General > About.

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My iPhone is stuck on signing into your account this may take a few minutes connecting to my Apple Watch I have iPhone 12 mine and Apple Watch series 7 the watch has been fully reset and my phone is running the latest iOS why is it taking so long doesn’t seem to be goin nowhere ????

I first made the mistake of updating the software when asked at the beginning of start up. I ended up in the same cycle described above cycling through the sign into account page. Eventually I reset the watch and skipped the update part and everything worked. Also during the install it asked if I wanted to perform automatic updates which I answered yes to once the watch was up and running I checked to see if the software was up to date and it apparently updated to the initialization phase.

So skip the initial update worked for me as well

Just got mine today and exact same problem !? … any solutions ?specifically for mini 12 also the reciever has issues

Make sure you have it on your wrist in the start up process and skip the update part worked for me