WiFi Issue (watchOS 3 Beta)

[cwosigns]

Hello there,

I have two Apple Watches, both of which are running the watchOS 3 beta and both paired to an iPhone 6s Plus running the latest iOS 10 beta. Here is my issue.

When I put on Watch #1, Watch #2 is unpaired and only shows the red "not connected to the phone" icon; it does not show the green cloud icon that shows it's connected to my home wifi network.

When I put on Watch #2, Watch #1 is unpaired but shows the green cloud icon that indicates it's connected to my Wifi network.

In essence, Watch #2 will only connect via Bluetooth it seems, and will not connect to WiFi. I was able to fix it briefly yesterday by forgetting my 5 GHz SSID on my phone and only connecting to the 2.4 GHz SSID (and then reconnecting to the 5 GHz SSID). But some point between yesterday and today, it has stopped working again. Not sure what to make of this.

Anyone else noticing this issue?

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

Sounds like Watch #2 doesn't have the wifi passcode stored. What you need to do is pair it and forget the network on iPhone, then re-connect to the network.

 

[cwosigns]

I changed the 2.4 and 5 GHz network names to be the same thing, hoping that will help (it was a suggestion on another thread). We'll see if that fixes it when I get home tonight and change watches.