Trick to Speed Up Download of Update to Watch

[Smoothie]

I've been using this trick for awhile. Use the watch app on the phone to start the update as usual. Once the download starts, turn off Bluetooth. The watch app will ask you turn it back on, but you can hit cancel and the download will proceed. The update file will then be sent to the watch via WiFi, which is much faster than Bluetooth.

 

[katbel]

I've been using this trick for awhile. Use the watch app on the phone to start the update as usual. Once the download starts, turn off Bluetooth. The watch app will ask you turn it back on, but you can hit cancel and the download will proceed. The update file will then be sent to the watch via WiFi, which is much faster than Bluetooth.

I was doing that too, always a good trick to share 😊

 

[Apple_Robert]

Thank you for the post. This is the first i have heard of such a trick. I will try it next install.

 

[DougFNJ]

Thanks for the tip! Going to try that next time.

 

[katbel]

Thank you for the post. This is the first i have heard of such a trick. I will try it next install.

I can witness that works 😊

 

[HDJulie]

Turn off bluetooth on the watch (through settings on the watch), on the phone, both?

 

[compwiz1202]

Turn off bluetooth on the watch (through settings on the watch), on the phone, both?

This was my first question too

 

[Apple_Robert]

Turn off bluetooth on the watch (through settings on the watch), on the phone, both?

I would turn off the watch. Otherwise, the watch may still keep looking for a signal.

 

[HDJulie]

I would turn off the watch. Otherwise, the watch may still keep looking for a signal.

I did that & the phone's download to the watch went from 30 minutes to 7 hours .

 

[Apple_Robert]

I did that & the phone's download to the watch went from 30 minutes to 7 hours .

If you tried that just now, that doesn’t mean anything other than the Apple servers are getting hit hard right now.

 

[HDJulie]

If you tried that just now, that doesn’t mean anything other than the Apple servers are getting hit hard right now.

It was about an hour ago. When I turned Bluetooth back on (on the watch), the download time went to 25 minutes.

 

[compwiz1202]

Did some searching. It is the phone and you need to turn it totally off in settings. Once i did that, it moved noticeably faster

 

[HDJulie]

I thought I tried that, too, but didn't see an increase in speed. I'll try it again next update

 

[Smoothie]

Turn off Bluetooth on the phone.

 

[nippyjun]

Thanks for the tip

 

[Jstuts5797]

Whoa I was skeptical about this, but I just tried it. The trick to make it work is to turn off Bluetooth in the settings app and NOT by using control center. Went from 2 hours down to 11 minutes.

THANK YOU OP for sharing this tip!