The Apple Smart Watch does not offer the user any connection ports for troubleshooting. If the firmware fails, the only solution was to take it to the technical service. Fortunately this has changed.
Any user of a Apple Watch Have you ever wondered how to connect the watch to a computer in case of a software failure? The answer was simple and traumatic: you mightn’t. The only solution so far was to take it to the technical service. Fortunately, with the watchOS 8.5 and a iPhone with iOS 15.4 things have changed and we can now restore apple watch at home.
Apple has activated a new tool in the iPhone operating system with which we can try to solve an update failure on a smart watch. If for some reason the device crashes or the firmware update process stops, you can see a red exclamation mark. These are the steps to follow to solve it:
- First we have to make sure that we have an iPhone on the same network. You must have iOS 15.4 or later and Bluetooth enabled. Of course, it also has to be unlocked.
- To start the process, we have to plug the Apple Watch into its charger.
- We continue with a double click on the side button of the Apple Watch, just the one below the digital crown.
- We just have to follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
If the steps do not work, Apple advises us to try once more by checking that we are in a Wi-Fi 2,4 GHz instead of 5 GHz and that there is no type of blockage in the network to our devices.
The company also warns that if it still doesn’t work, the only option left to us is the one we had at the beginning: go to a Apple. At least now they have given us a tool that surely saves us the trip on many occasions.