No problems here with my Series 1... OS installs on the watch do seem to take a long time, though.
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No problems here with my Series 1... OS installs on the watch do seem to take a long time, though.
It takes like an hour on the series 2. It isn't "stuck." Just go outside and watch the birds while it does its thing.
great advice... mine says now "www.apple.com/help/watch" and a red exclamation mark ..
THANK YOU
Edit: Apparently I can send mine back to apple now. Man... barely had it a week. and waited almost and a month for it and now that... Such an idiotic advice
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Battery life off the hook??? Man, OS 3 totally destroyed my battery life (3.1 helped a bit). I was getting almost three days with OS 2. I'm barely getting 1.5 days with OS 3.1. ☹
Update: I've had to book a Genius Bar appointment because my watch went into recovery mode for no reason. Next appointment is a week away. Great.
Ugh mine is taking forever to update as usual. (original series) Hope it doesn't get stuck! And of course I was just about to go out of the house, how silly of me to think the update might go quickly this time 
See 3.0 destroyed my watch. Couldn't make it 10 hours. Now I can get over 40 hours after 3.1. I can't lose that progress!
Man, is it ever. This is my first Apple Watch and I can't believe how much battery is still left at the end of the day. Consistently above 50%, often above 70%.
The update to my S0 didn't take inordinately long, but getting there was an issue.
At first, the Watch app kept complaining that I wasn't connected to WiFi.
Then, the installation paused itself at various stages.
The modern equivalent to slapping the side of a recalcitrant TV finally got things going.
When it finally got the the stage where the payload was loaded and verified, the circular progress meter only took about 20 minutes to complete.
"It just works."
At first, the Watch app kept complaining that I wasn't connected to WiFi.
Then, the installation paused itself at various stages.
The modern equivalent to slapping the side of a recalcitrant TV finally got things going.
When it finally got the the stage where the payload was loaded and verified, the circular progress meter only took about 20 minutes to complete.
"It just works."
I was able to complete the update, but my Watch App on my iphone just says "Installing..." even though it completed. Rebooted the phone and watch, but it still says this. Anyone else have this issue?
Edit: after giving it some time, it no longer shows installing. it says it's up to date now!
Edit: after giving it some time, it no longer shows installing. it says it's up to date now!
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Someone must have cancelled their appointment at the Hornsby store which is 600m from me. Going from a week wait to a few hours.
Keep checking online, you might get lucky if someone cancels!
Keep checking online, you might get lucky if someone cancels!
Same with me. Waited 5 hours (update circle on Apple Watch was completed). Did a force restart now it's bricked. Nice one.
So the only way is to go the Apple Store?
To those with bricked watches: How long since you last rebooted the watch? I always reboot my devices before an update (also close all apps on the iPhone/iPad before the reboot), let it sit for 5 min after the reboot to make sure all services are running properly and no indexing is going on, and then start the update.
Never had an issue.
(I also reboot my devices about once a week, or when I feel it's necessary or I just have time (an old habit from my Windows times), and do the same for my wife's and mom's devices when I think it's been a while.)
Never had an issue.
(I also reboot my devices about once a week, or when I feel it's necessary or I just have time (an old habit from my Windows times
), and do the same for my wife's and mom's devices when I think it's been a while.)Sorry to hear. These updates are inconsistent sometimes. Hopefully it's resolved and your Watch will be restored as it was. Good luck.
That's kinda way too long....
So my first thought when I see that a new update is ready is "really? drag". Sure there will be nice new features, but I do not get excited about giving ~2 hours of my day to a phone update and a watch update back-to-back.
Plus you can't really know when it will be done if its sitting on your kitchen counter and you're not there with it. I actually use my watch to tell time and stuff. Oh, and my phone is still stuck on the kitchen counter....
Me too!
Stuck in Apple white logo
Mine's bricked as well.
Have to send it it.
WOW - Came here to post how my Series 2 failed to update and is now bricked with the red exclamation mark. I guess I'm not alone!
I let it start when I went to sleep. Saw the circle slowly progressing. Then the whole night whenever I opened my eyes it was on the circle. When I woke up, 7 hours later, I held power button to see what it was doing and it rebooted to the red exclamation mark. WTF.