Has anyone successfully updated their watch to OS2 - Ive tried 4 times without success - never finishes the verifying phase.

Try allowing longer for it to complete the verification process.

II've completed the installation on 2 watches. The verification process takes as long as the download. If you're not actually getting an error message that says the process failed, just let it sit. It's slow - presumably from the volume of requests on the update server - but if your connection is stable it should finish.

Download took 35 min, it has been verifying for over 2 hours now. How long should I wait?

Update: after over 2 hours of verifying, the watch app on the IPhone suddenly reverted to "there is an update available". No explanation, nothing...

Now I need to start my download all over again......

mine did this also

I had the same problem ... after second attempt, and waiting 1 hour on Verifying step ... I powered down my Watch and eureka, it came back as 2.0 (after 2 cycles of the initial Watch start up display). So Verifying step appears to be problematic ...

My has been on Verifying for the entire afternoon (from about 12PM to about 4PM) and still verifying...restarting the watch didn't help. 😟

I just left mine on the charger next to the phone and 3 hours later it was done.

I finally decided to try re-booting my iPhone. The first time it came back up, the Watch app said it was not connected to the Internet. Then I re-booted my iPhone again and tried both e-mail and Safari to verify that it was connected. Then, when I tried the Watch app again, it went right to Verifying and within a minute, switched to Preparing. About 3 minutes later, the watch shows the circular pattern that indicated the update was being installed.

MMine hung up on "Verify" and after a couple of hours my iPhone froze. I did a hard reboot and started the update process again. It immediately went to install and finished in about 30 minutes.

Yes - I updated after re-enabling the PASSCODE on the Watch and restarting both the watch and the iPhone

It then installed the updated smoothly.

When I had earlier restarted both the phone and the watch without re-enabling passcode it was stuck on the Verifying stage forever.

My wife watch updated on the first try and then i figured the only difference in our Watch OS 1 setting was that i had Wallet and Passcode enabled and she did not. The OS2 updated was probably trying to validate the passcode as a secure card was stored on the watch already.

Hope it works for you...

15 hours later and many attempts. Unsuccessful

the watch is now frozen

I was stuck on verifying, until I turned off the iWatch passcode using the iPhone's iWatch app. Next time I went to General and started the software update, it ran through the process in about 30 minutes. After that I just turned the passcode back on.

I was having the same issue - stuck in verifying mode. I actually chatted with Apple Support and they couldn't help me. Turning passcode off on the watch worked. It got past the verification phase in about 2 mins and then started installing the update.

It too a long time, you need to be patient.