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I’m trying to pair my dads old apple watch series 2 to my iphone xs running ios 15.4.1 and an iphone 12 pro running ios15.4.1. whenever i try to update it it just says this:
it only gives me the option to exit. what should i do?
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This is rather strange, the Series 2 can go to watchOS 5. I recently paired a series 0 to my moms iPhone 6s running iOS 15, but she did not have iOS 15.4.1 I read last time that old watches do not pair with ios 15 but with my moms watch it worked. THat one was fully updated to watchOS 4 years before tho, maybe thats the issue?
This is rather strange, the Series 2 can go to watchOS 5. I recently paired a series 0 to my moms iPhone 6s running iOS 15, but she did not have iOS 15.4.1 I read last time that old watches do not pair with ios 15 but with my moms watch it worked. THat one was fully updated to watchOS 4 years before tho, maybe thats the issue?
i believe it might be due to the fact that watch is 3 is so far behind that it won’t update. i looked at some reddit threads and that’s what they told me. i guess it’s just unusable unless i have an older iphone
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.
ok thanks for the info. i’m going to see if i have an older iphone laying around to do it that way.
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