Watch bricked after update

You just fixed my Apple Watch!! Without the method you sent to me, I would have never got my watch off of the “please continue setup on iPhone” screen. I thought it was frozen for good or that I would have to pay Apple to get it back up and running. It was still a struggle to get it to update and pair to my iPhone but after multiple attempts and resets, it’s working perfectly again! Thank you so much!

Follow the steps that FieryJack posted in response to my post. I’m telling you it works! My Apple Watch was about to go in the trash until I did this. It bypassed all of the issues my watch was having and forced it back to factory when even a hard reset wouldn’t work. Works perfectly now!

Unfortunately none of these options will work in my case as the Apple Watch is completely frozen. The only action it allows is a forced reboot which brings it right back to the same screen, frozen again. So there’s no way to unpair the watch and repair it again. It only shows the one screen mentioned before, “please continue setup on iPhone.”

I did this when the incident first took place. In the app on my iPhone the watch no longer shows up because I reset the watch back to factory settings and unpaired it to see if it would come back to life. Sadly all that happened was the iPhone no longer showed the watch in the app because it was unpaired and now I have no way of repairing it to my phone because it didn’t fix the issue and is still frozen in the same place as before the attempted reset.