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What’s taking my Apple Watch so long to process updates to it? It’s never taken this long.

What’s taking my Apple Watch so long to process updates to it? It has never taken this long before.

Posted on Jul 19, 2021 6:57 PM

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Posted on Jul 19, 2021 8:17 PM

FWIW, a lot of people are having problems updating a series 3 due to lack of sufficient memory. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 times unpairing/pairing the series 3 watch for the update to finally work. For possible solutions, see the reply to:

Problem updating Apple Watch Series 3 to … - Apple Community

WatchOS 7.4 can't be updated on Watch Ser… - Apple Community

Series 3 watch only has 4.8 of memory - Apple Community

or the replies to:

Can’t do update on watch - Apple Community

I have tried installing the latest update… - Apple Community


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Jul 19, 2021 8:17 PM in response to erma0808

FWIW, a lot of people are having problems updating a series 3 due to lack of sufficient memory. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 times unpairing/pairing the series 3 watch for the update to finally work. For possible solutions, see the reply to:

Problem updating Apple Watch Series 3 to … - Apple Community

WatchOS 7.4 can't be updated on Watch Ser… - Apple Community

Series 3 watch only has 4.8 of memory - Apple Community

or the replies to:

Can’t do update on watch - Apple Community

I have tried installing the latest update… - Apple Community


What’s taking my Apple Watch so long to process updates to it? It’s never taken this long.

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