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Native apps do not load
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Yeah man, we've all tried that believe me. The issue is that is isn't really just one app. Every single native app doesn't launch at all. I have yet to set the "inside" of the Dark Sky, E-trade, Sleep++ apps at all
Yup. We've been trying every single voo doo witch magic trick there is.
I downloaded mine from the watch app on my phone. Had to mess with it, restarted phone and watch before it finally started working.
Was having problem with any 3rd party apps loading since gm. Just reset the apple watch as new and now everything works.
Alright: after all this BS monkeying around, I finally did a restore of my phone like others suggested. Encrypted a backup in iTunes, restored the phone (the watch then erased itself when it senses the phone is restored), restored the encrypted backup, let all the apps go onto the phone first, then restored the watch from it's backup. 2 hours or so later, and native apps are now working. Gonna try the Sleep++ app tonight to monitor my undisturbed rest from my now working watch. What a bunch of malarkey.
But if you set it up as new, you lose all your health data, achievements and watch data..?
i refuse to restore my iphone and waste hours of my time re setting and syncing everything back when this should be working without all this hassle, i might as well just wait for apple to release a fix for this via software update, i dont want to do a full restore of my iphone
Yes, it's really annoying. I just wanted to test if it would fix the problem. I would restore the iCloud backup afterwards.
Ahh okay. I already said this, but I honestly cannot believe Apple does not have a backup mechanism for health, achievement and watch data. Apple's first line of support when something goes wrong is restore as new. That means all the data is lost permanently. So stupid.
Shxt...it finally worked...setup as new solved the case. but I have to download the citymapper app from the watch apps store.
so that confirms that restoring the iphone and setting as new doesn't fix the issue either which further proves there is some huge massive bug within either ios 9 or watchOS 2 that needs an immediate fix from apple. such a shame.
such shame, all thats left is to wait for apple to respond with a firmware update to either ios9 or watchos 2
I've tried all the suggestions above except for completing restoring my iPhone. My native apps still don't work ! I wonder if the people who are having problems are using iOS 9.1 Beta ? I am. Trying to see if that's the reason.
No most of us if not all of us who are having the issue are using iOS 9 final official release.
Considering it's all native apps for certain users, it will probably need an Apple update. Star Walk 2 had a bug release today as well but same issue exists.
No, restored it as a new phone. Major pain to have to manually reinstall everything.