At least, thats whats taking place to an unknown variety of Apple Watch owners who reported some quirky problems after upgrading to iOS 14 and, consequently, watchOS 7. These range from the frustrating, like an Apple Watch failing to tape-record your outside exercise with the GPS, to the troublesome, like an Apple Watch suffering decreased battery life for no obvious reason.
We never stated updating to a new operating system was a perfect procedure. You can do everything right and still run into issues on your otherwise benign smart device, tablet, or watch. Make all the backups on the planet, and you might still come across bugs or mystifying problems when you upgrade your OS– and there may be no going back.
Apple has released a laundry list of prospective problems, which is worth reading if your Apple Watch has been acting strangely following your current upgrade:
Your exercise route maps are missing out on in the Fitness app on iPhone for previous GPS-enabled workouts from your Apple Watch.
The Activity, Heart Rate, or other health-related apps fail to launch or load data on your Apple Watch.
The Fitness app or Health app fail to launch or fill information on your iPhone.
The Health app or Fitness app is reporting an inaccurate quantity of data storage on your iPhone.
The Activity app is reporting an unreliable amount of information storage on your Apple Watch.
Your environmental noise levels data or headphone audio levels information from Apple Watch is missing in the Health app on iPhone.
Increased battery drain on your iPhone or Apple Watch.
Thankfully, the Apple-blessed service to resolve these problems is simple. Start by opening up the Watch app on your iPhone, and after that tap on All Watches in the upper-left corner, tap on the “i” icon beside your Apple Watch, and tap on Unpair Apple Watch.
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Your phone ought to make a backup of your watch before the unpairing procedure begins– which resets the Watch, naturally, so youll then utilize that backup to restore back to what you had previously.
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When youre ready, pull up the Settings app, tap on General, scroll down a bit to tap on Reset, and tap on Erase All Content and Settings. When your iPhone has actually finished its self-purge, you can restore from your backup. And if that doesnt fix your Apple Watch issues, it may be time to have a chat with a Genius.
Apple likewise recommends that if this doesnt work, you may wish to try the nuclear method on your iPhone: erasing all settings. That appears a bit much, but its a choice if your Apple Watch issues stay unsolved. Make certain youve made a fresh backup of your iPhone prior to the big remove, which you can do by plugging your iPhone into your computer system and bring up Finder (or iTunes, on Windows) or by utilizing the much simpler iCloud approach for backups.
You can do everything right and still run into problems on your otherwise benign mobile phone, tablet, or watch. Apple likewise recommends that if this does not work, you may desire to attempt the nuclear technique on your iPhone: erasing all settings. That seems a bit much, however its an alternative if your Apple Watch problems stay unsolved. And if that doesnt fix your Apple Watch concerns, it might be time to have a chat with a Genius.
