I had another brand new apple watch series 5 that couldn't pair with iOS 14, but after a few tries, I somehow manage to pair & update without using other iphone with iOS 13. Here's what I did:
At first, I got the same error message during pairing, "couldn't connect to the internet to update watchOS". Then I tried using only 2.4GHz wifi like I saw in the other thread, but that didn't work either. So after restoring 5GHz wifi, I tried pairing using another iphone with iOS14, and of course it still gave me the same error.
But then I then restarted my original iphone. After it booted back up, I enabled airplane mode and tried to do the pairing step again, and suddenly I can update the watchOS to 7.0.1. After the watch is updated I can proceed to pairing and setup.
I have no idea what worked, did the airplane mode did the trick? Or the iphone switching? Or the restarting? I swear I tried the same things before and none of it worked, but now it works so beats me... Apple better release iOS update or info soon.
ive been trying to pair my watch for 4 months and I won’t work. It says the WiFi is not connected when it is and has 4 bars. I don’t know how to fix it and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
Make sure you’re not on 5g and reboot your router.
Purchased the Apple Watch 5 in Nov of 21 for a Christmas present, it was an open box, unused device. It took over a week of trial and error including the hard resets and app removals, etc. I had success just today. My network had a 2.4 Ghz and a 5Ghz network; for the last week i have had the phone on the 2.4Ghz band.
Just today I connected the Iphone to the 5Ghz network, then started the pairing process once again. Note the apple watch never appeared on my 2.4 Ghz network when my phone was connected to the 2.4 Ghz.At this point the Router network recognized the Apple watch.I assigned it to a home device and rename it within my network.Next I had to list it as a wearable device. This allowed the router network to open communication to the Apple Watch and begin to accept the updates.It appeared for a while that the updates stalled, but after almost half an hour the Iphone said it had another update, then another. It finally finished updating to OS 8.3 and restarted. Now going through the final set-up phase. Hope this helps.