the REAL question is will Apple offer a decent trade in credit for S1/S2 for recent watches? It’s been about 4-5yrs now. Great support still.
smart move I’m worried about updating my HomePod
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Apple Releases watchOS 6.1 With Support for AirPods Pro and Series 1 and Series 2 Apple Watch Models
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the REAL question is will Apple offer a decent trade in credit for S1/S2 for recent watches? It’s been about 4-5yrs now. Great support still.
smart move I’m worried about updating my HomePod
Updated my Ceramic S5. Quick and painless. Will power cycle as always and play around with it tomorrow
Yeah, it's really annoying. I usually wake up and listen to a podcast on my phone for roughly 15-20 minutes before my walk. The I grab the watch and airpods and take my dog for a walk and I want to resume listening to the podcast on the watch without the phone. I hate that it deletes the podcast and have called Apple to report this. I so hope it is fixed in 6.1.
Apple Watch Series 2 A1758 updated to 6.1 . Took around an hour overall and was promoted to enter the PIN during the installation for whatever reason, then the installation continued 
I don’t want to brick or bracelet anything... so I wait a few hours.
then I punish my wife with her update and see how it goes.
Tomorrow is my b-day so I can’t have it with my watch not giving me balloons
Birthday balloons, ha, okay...
Being married myself, I’m sure there’s some inside joke at work here, so I do hope it goes well with your wife’s Watch. It wouldn’t be good to get a real brick for your b-day 😉 I do my own updates so my husband knows better than to try anything on my devices. He can brick his own stuff, and he is not allowed to touch mine.
Happy Birthday 🎂
I’ve been going over comments to see if there’s any issues still with 6.1 before I update my S4 from 5.3.2.
I don’t want to make my watch an inconvenience to use so I will hold off as long as possible until I know watchOS 6 is actually stable.
To all series 1&2 users: be glad you did not get to use WatchOS 6 and 6.0.1. It was worth waiting for 6.1! My series 3 became sluggish, lots of frame drops while going in and out of the app menu and my biggest annoyance was that the display often did not turn on when flicking your wrist or simply by touching the screen. I had to push the crown a couple of times before my watch responded: That’s. All. Gone After tonight’s update.
My watch is finally smooth and responsive again and everytime I raise or flick my wrist the screen goes on again, as it always did with OS5. I’m happy!
My watch is finally smooth and responsive again and everytime I raise or flick my wrist the screen goes on again, as it always did with OS5. I’m happy!
Seems snappier. Does anyone else have emails that came in as "no sender" "no recipient" that wont't delete?
it’s still early, but my experience on the last 6.1 beta on my S2 was amazing. It actually has me rethinking about buying an upgrade the winter. I believe this release is the same build.
Obviously you may have a different experience. But for me, this was a worthwhile install.
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Exact same issue and sequence of events! I listen on the phone, and expect it to sync properly to the watch when I take it along with the AirPods - it ends up in the Recently Played section, which is stupid coz now its not in the Listen Now section
Thanks.
My wife is not a tech geek. So I always joke and handle her HW. She just enjoys using it.
It’s an old series and anyway I plan to buy her the 5th gen in January on her birthday
Anyway, update worked and everything seems smooth so she will enjoy the new watch faces.
I just updated my Series 5 using iOS 13.1.2 to WatchOS 6.1. No issues so far. Siri shortcuts on the watch is not working still; I believe it is re-enabled via iOS 13.2.
Updating my iPhone to iOS 13.2 now.
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Update: After updating to iOS 13.2, Siri Shortcuts over Apple Watch is now working.
Updating my iPhone to iOS 13.2 now.
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Update: After updating to iOS 13.2, Siri Shortcuts over Apple Watch is now working.
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It doesn’t. While in theater mode, just turn the crown. The display will light up gradually and you can see the time right away.
By "recently played" on the watch, do you mean you select the podcast feed and it shows the latest episode as played, or is there an actual "recently played" section somewhere?
Wow. Lots of hesitation.
I’ve upgraded. 6.0.1 was a hot mess. 6.1 went without a hitch and so far seems better, but I’ll give it few more days before I’m fully sold.
Is the first ever Apple watch considered Series 1? I thought I remember that being called series 0?
No. Gen 1 is the Series 0.
Series 1 is the Gen 1 watch, but with the S2 processor.
Then there is S2, S3 and so on.
It was 3 years in September. And the last time I looked they offered about $50 I think for series 1. Laughable.
Thats a hell of a lot more than I would pay for an S1.