Series 3 Apple Watch not working after update to iOS 16 and Watch OS 8.7

The series 3 is getting old in terms of design but many people have managed to pair it to iOS16 provided it is on 16.1.1 or later, not 16.0 and the Watch is erased and set up as a new Watch.

If any update did brick the hardware then the hardware would have bricked all by itself within 3 months, no doubt about it. The additional cpu usage to update any device from Watch to iMac can be the final straw on an already failing hardware.

Get an SE2022 instead of considering "repair"and you will not be disappointed in comparison to that old design.

Exact same thing happened to me. And upon searching different forums this seems to have happened to a lot of people with the update. Now my watch is an expensive paperweight. I opened a ticket with Apple support and they said I can mail it in and they will fix it for $180! Wow. Their update broke my watch and I have to pay a bunch to fix it.

I have an Apple Watch 3 that has always worked well for me, but for the past few days I can't scroll to the screen where I can locate my phone by pinging it. I'm an elderly woman, and I rely on this feature more than any other! But I can't access anything on the watch beyond the main page. This watch was a gift from my 2 adult children. I need it to work the way it always worked until a couple days ago. HELP!