Have another genius bar appointment tomorrow to see if they can do anything with my phone. Not holding my breath though.
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Native apps do not load
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Which is why sites like Macrumors need to write about it to bring some awareness
i think the problem is that there were NO native apps out on the appstore for the devlopers to test out during the beta testing period, there was not a single Native app on the app store, so how could they have tested out native apps?
I keel wondering if the device name has anything to do with this. My first time following the instructions in this thread, my first thought was to rename my phone to what it used to be and the next series of steps didn't work. I tried again but this time was conscious of that for some reason and gave the phone in your name. No issues. Perhaps luck perhaps not.
I'm currently sending Apple Engineering my bug reports but from the looks of it, they have no idea what the problem currently is.
Were you able to install your backups afterwards or will that make the apps stop working again? Because it seems that for some people in here they can restore their devices and get the apps working, but as soon as they then install their iCloud backups the apps will break again
Just spent the best part of 3 hours doing this - and it didn't work! I'm going to cry!
Just spoke to apple support, she said about 1 in 10 people are having this problem, she's forwarded it to the engineers and she'll get back to me soon. Not holding out much hope though, she didn't have any idea how to solve it once I told her all I'd done to try and fix the issue. :'(
So my native apps are now loading on apple watch. The only thing I did differently after unpair, repair cycle was to install each app individually instead of allowing all of them to download automatically. Not sure if this will fix anyone else's but mine seems to be working now. Good luck!
I gave up on waiting for Apple to fix this bug. I just did a reset of both the phone and the watch and set them up as new devices. I was still having some trouble with apps launching after doing the standard erase all settings and content. I had to connect the phone to itunes and do a restore, which reinstalled ios 9.0.2. Once the OS was reinstalled, I disconnected from itunes and set both devices up as new.
I'm in the process of slowly getting all my apps set back up. I've lost some of my data, but at least native apps on my watch are working now.
I'm in the process of slowly getting all my apps set back up. I've lost some of my data, but at least native apps on my watch are working now.
Hey guys so I just talked over the phone to Apple Support once again. This time, the Support told me something different then trying to let the Engineers find the problem.
He said that my problem clearly sounds like a Apple Watch hardware problem and that I will get an appointment in my nearest Apple Store and that they will look for a hardware problem, repair it or give me a new Watch. What he said was that I will leave the Store with a working watch either way, whether they would fix it or simply replace it.
The Support guy now hinted at a Watch based problem, because I got the "old" iPhone 6 from my dad. His Apple Watch worked fine with the phone all the time, but now that I have it and connected it with my Watch, I still have the problems, even though his Watch worked totally fine connected to the phone.
He said that my problem clearly sounds like a Apple Watch hardware problem and that I will get an appointment in my nearest Apple Store and that they will look for a hardware problem, repair it or give me a new Watch. What he said was that I will leave the Store with a working watch either way, whether they would fix it or simply replace it.
The Support guy now hinted at a Watch based problem, because I got the "old" iPhone 6 from my dad. His Apple Watch worked fine with the phone all the time, but now that I have it and connected it with my Watch, I still have the problems, even though his Watch worked totally fine connected to the phone.
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I've got 2 Watches in my household with the same problem! I am helping the bug fix team out with a ticket through the bug reporting system. Got to send them my logs. I got it to work by setting us as new, but the problem came back when I restored my Watch from the Watch backup on the iPhone.
That sounds very strange. 1/10 people is a lot so I'm surprised so many people in here report Apple sounding surprised every time they are told about this issue. You'd also think there was more coverage in the media if so many devices were affected.
But if true then good for us since Apple can't ignore it then
I was very surprised by that figure too, the lady was very apologetic, but that's about it, sending it up the line, just like everyone else who have had this problem. :S
As someone who's had this problem and resolved it, I feel pretty strongly that it's a software issue...though if Apple wants to give me a brand new sport watch or allow me to upgrade to SS, who am I to argue?
By turning off Location Services on both apps Dark Sky and City Mapper seemed to have resolved the native app running problem. Thanks Mr. C
Huh? Can you elaborate on what you did step by step?
I just disabled location services for citymapper on my iPhone but citymapper still doesn't launch on the watch.