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Hi, I am wanting to use my old Apple Watch 2 that has been in a drawer for a few years. In trying to pair it with my iPhone 11 Pro (not a phone it has been connected to before), it goes through the motions and then asks to be upgraded. I have tried many times, but after a while, the Watch app (which is up to date) displays this message, after which nothing happens. Can anyone help?! Many thanks
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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.
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.
Hi, thanks for your reply, which makes a lot of sense. Perhaps if I were to dig out one of my old iPhones it might be possible to pair - I suppose the question is which ios was the last that the Watch 2 could handle?
Possibly ios13
Thanks, will investigate ...
Apple Watch 2 problem
