My phone is in for repairs... so I am using an old 2016 SE temporarily, but while my good phone is away, I would like to be able to still use my watch, get calendar updates and notifications etc. So there is no way to unpair and reconnect to another phone without resetting the entire device. So eventually decide I have had enough, and reset watch. But now it does not pair. Search the internet, apple gives a whole lot of suggestions, none work. As soon as it pairs, it unpairs again. Then thanks to a bright user somewhere, try checking for phone updates. Okay great phone update is available. Try pairing - pairing fails. But now it tells me I need ios 16 to pair a watch, and I am on 15.7.9 since SE 2016 is not able to install 16...
So why could my phone not have told me when I first tried pairing that the IOS version was not high enough to pair in the first place and prevented me from resetting my watch? So now I am without a watch till my phone gets repaired? I have supported apple for many years but there are just too many things that are becoming painful about their service, I think it is time to start looking at alternatives.