WatchOS 9.6 bricked my Apple Watch Series 6
Last week, as soon as I saw the notification for the latest WatchOS 9.6 version, I updated my Series 6 Apple Watch. It has always worked flawlessly, but this time something failed and the watch is now bricked in a continuous reboot loop. I tried to reset and hard reset (crown + button) many times but nothing changed.
I went to the Apple Store to get support and they sent the watch to repair. My hope was that they were able to re-flash it, but they returned to me with a surprising diagnosis, saying that there is a hardware problem in the mainboard and I have to pay over €300 to get it solved.
After multiple discussions with Support, they say that it is not possible to demonstrate that the update caused the problem, so now I have a very expensive paperweight.
Very frustrated with Apple and the lack of empathy with my issue. Is there any possibility to recover the watch outside Apple? Because I am more than sure that my watch has no hardware problems.
Thanks for reading!
Apple Watch de Jesus