Apple I watch pairing

Question

Level 1

4 points

Apple I watch pairing

I am trying to pair my series 3 Apple Watch with my iPhone 8. My wifi and Bluetooth are on. I get through the initial steps with my watch and phone which are on their chargers fully charged. My watch app appears on the phone but not my watch itself and I have a notification on it that asks me to update to watchOS 9.2 once it starts pairing the two electronic devices. It almost updates completely but then stops and keeps asking me to redo the software update date. How do I fix this?

Thanks,

58Teacher

Posted on Dec 27, 2022 4:56 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Top-ranking reply

LD150

Level 10

101,496 points

Dec 28, 2022 8:57 AM in response to 58Teacher

Did the previous uset/owner unpair and erase it?

Can you erase it like this...

Put your watch on its charger and keep it there until you complete these steps.
Press and hold the side button until you see the power button in the upper-right corner of the display.
Press and hold the Digital Crown until you see Erase all content and settings.
Tap Reset, then tap Reset again to confirm.
Wait for the process to finish, then if necessary set up your Apple Watch again. When asked, restore from a backup.

Erasing all content and settings erases all media, data, and settings from your Apple Watch, but it does not remove Activation Lock if it has one so if it has then you need the password,

Reply

Answer 2

LD150

Level 10

101,496 points

Dec 28, 2022 2:17 AM in response to 58Teacher

series 3 cannot take OS 9.2, it stops at 8.7.1

Make sure the iphone is on ios16.2

Restart both devices

Reply

Answer 3

58Teacher Author

Level 1

4 points

Dec 28, 2022 8:24 AM in response to LD150

Hi, thanks for your response. I did try what you suggested and I did see earlier in the day that series 3 couldn’t update OS 9.2 but without being able to update the watch app automatically unpairs or retries to update. I tried all these methods to no avail. Any other ideas? This is very frustrating as I received the watch as a gift and was trying to set it up for my dad who is in his eighties.

Reply

Apple I watch pairing

Similar questions