Slow Download Apple Watch Update

The app will search for available updates.

Slow download apple watch update. Actually if your watch is able to connect to one of the wi fi networks that it receives from your iphone it will connect to wi fi to download the update. To speed up the apple watch update process you ve to switch it over to wifi from bluetooth when it s downloading the update. Unlike other apple devices your apple watch does not download watchos updates itself.

Estimated time remaining should drop significantly as a direct result of using the much faster wi fi protocol than the slow unreliable bluetooth networking. How to speed up watchos updates on apple watch. Your apple watch will now get the update over wifi.

Initiate the download from the watch app on your iphone. Do not toggle off bluetooth from the control center. If you have an original apple watch series 0 apple watch series 1 or apple watch series 2 you can t update to watchos 7.

I gotta say they really have to improve upon this update process. This is a fairly simple trick and it involves simply turning off bluetooth on your iphone which in turn forces your apple watch to download the watchos software update over wi fi remember your iphone is paired via bluetooth with the apple watch. Others posting here today too found that the fix was a hard reboot of both iphone and watch.

Does your apple watch support watchos 7. It took my apple watch a few minutes to finish verifying its update. Once it shows time remaining for the update go to settings bluetooth and turn off bluetooth.

Launch your apple watch app on your iphone tap on general and then on software update. I was curious while 4 3 was downloading and opened my wi fi controller s interface. Saw that the watch was pulling down hundreds of mb of data while the update downloaded.