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jtkboston

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Oct 23, 2014
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I set up the phone and watch on chargers and started the download/update of watchOS 5.3.1. Came back a while later. watch app on phone says "installing...", and don't restart watch.

Phone is XS at iOS 13 public beta 6 (build 17A5572a). I'm not interested in installing watchOS beta 6 right now.

Watch looks like it is running normally, not doing anything update related.
Came back half an hour later, same thing. Watch can be woken up and unlocked with passcode, and shows it's running 5.3.1 (16U600) in settings. That also shows in the "about" section of watch app on the phone.

So what happened? Is the watch still trying to update? Did the phone not get the message? Or is my watch at the wrong build level and it really should be working to update?

Can I safely restart watch or phone at this point?
 
Eh, I gave it another hour or so, eventually phone agreed the watch was up to date.
 
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