Unable to Check for Update - Apple Watch

From your photo it appears the "downloading to watch..." is still on the screen beneath the alert box. If so it looks like your download was not completed.

I'm having a silmilar situation but am afraid to touch the watch or iPhone: I started the download over an hour ago and am still getting the "downloadiing " message. Must be an extreme backlog on the web.

Suggestion to others: maybe this isn't a good time to install 1.0.1. Also, it now makes sense that they require the watch to be on charge!

I had the same "Unable to Verify Update" message across many attempts from different internet connections throughout the day. I found that choosing Reset All Content And Settings from the watch and then restoring it from a backup when re-pairing allowed me to perform the 1.0.1 update.

Thanks Charles. The reset and restore solved it for me.

I reset and restored, and still my phone is stuck on "Checking for Update..."

Have been trying for a day now to get Watch 1.0.1.

I had this same issue for several hours now. I just rebooted both my iPhone and the Watch, and the installation is now working.

Finally got it updated. Same thing happened to me, all requirements met and confirmed. First it failed to verify 3 times, after rebooting the phone it failed to check for updates. After a few minutes it was ready to verify the update again. All failed for the same reason - you are not connected to the internet, so whatever checks for internet connectivity is not working. If you want to continue the futility you can try to verify again, which seems to just hang in the state, Verifying... I continued with the insanity and to my surprise, it got to the state of Installing..., I crossed my fingers... the apple shows on the watch and the circular progress indicator shows 25% after about 6 min or so. and about 20 min to complete the circle, then it starts another progress circle that goes much faster, then back to the apple logo... and it boots up, It's working again!

Hi bro.

This case is same with me.

My Apple Watch: watch sport OS 1.0

My Iphone6 OS: iOS 8.3.1

I can not pair my apple watch because, apple watch must be updated to finish pairing. Unfortunately, my watch can not be updated as image below:

To all bro: Do you have any suggestion for this.

Note: I bough apple via apple online store Singapore.

Thanks so much.

Best Regards.

Vinh ***** (vinhn1010)

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Hi Vinh

In order to be able to update Apple Watch to the latest version of watchOS, it is now necessary for your iPhone to first be updated to the latest version of iOS.

Update your iPhone and then try updating your watch again:

Update the iOS software on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Update the software on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Hi

You need to have ios 9.3 software on your iPhone to update watch ios

Cheers

Brian

As already advised:

Jonathan UK wrote:

.. In order to be able to update Apple Watch to the latest version of watchOS, it is now necessary for your iPhone to first be updated to the latest version of iOS. ..