I was just gifted a series 1 apple watch and tried to set it up with my iphone xr. I was able to begin to pair it and scan it with my phone, it said “A software updated is available for this Apple watch. Update now to continue setting up. “
It took me to a screen that said it was updated but i couldn’t click anything else but cancel to continue to set it up. I’ve done this about 10 times. I’ve reset the watch, reset my phone. Nothing will work
iPhone XR, iOS 15
It's technically possible to pair a watch 1 or 2 to a newer phone,but in reality this is proving almost impossible for just about all the 1&2 owners on this forum.
Newer phone's require the watch to have updated hardware to cope with ios15 and unfortunately because of the age of these watches the hardware is very limited to what it can do.
Then there is the subject of storage,these watches have very little storage space and the average software update now requires gigabytes of space rather than megabytes and again these watches are very limited with the amount of storage space they have.
It is recommended that even a watch 3 should be unpaired and repaired in order to free up enough space to update.
Connecting series 1 apple watch
