Can no longer pair Apple Watch with iPhone (watchOS 4)

Also stuck on this as well. Apple Support couldnt help as its beta and theyre unsure of the next steps.

Hi Fabriziofromswitzerand

watchOS 4 requires your iPhone to be running iOS 11. Therefore, you need to upgrade iPhone to iOS 11 so you can pair it.

Similar to watchOS 3, if you're having issues with the pairing flow, tap the "i" on the watch to enter the manual pairing flow. In addition, please file a bug reportregarding this issue so we can better assist on our side.

Thanks!

i have this problem too, my phone is ios10 and cannot pair or reset the watch.

have the same problem. cann´t pair watch with iphone io11

You can't downgrade the OS version on your Apple Watch yourself. With the last version of watchOS, Apple did allow people to take it into an Apple Store and have it sent off for a couple of days to do this. But there is no way you can do it yourself, unlike the iPhone.

As ebr0** mentions, you can only pair a watch running watchOS 4 with iOS 11.

Best thing to do would be to wait for the more stable public beta of iOS 11 coming out at the end of June where you will be able to pair your watch again. It does mean your watch will only be able to tell the time until then - no notifications or internet connection!

If you want it sooner then you'll have to upgrade your iPhone again to iOS 11.

Yes I'm experiencing this to

Go on your iPhone and sign out of iMessage. Was having same problem and this fixed it for me. Still took ~4 minutes to get past that Apple ID screen but it did work. If this still doesn't work try signing out of iCloud altogether.

I've tried this but with no luck unfortunately. Has anyone else had the same issue or have any other suggestions?

Hi All,

if you're hitting this, we'd love to get more information to investigate further. Please use Bug Reporter to file a report and please include a sysdiagnose taken from your iPhone after reproducing the failed pairing session.

Thanks!

-nick

Hi,

As said by a few people above, you will need to update to ios 11 on your iphone.

I too did what you did and downgraded after issues and lost everything on my watch so decided to install ios 11 again.

I then went on to have issues where it kept saying "put iphone near watch" etc and also got to the stage of scanning the 'fuzzy image' (not sure what thats called) and then it would freeze.

To cut short, had to keep restarting the watch and trying over and over until it worked on about the 7th attempt.

Stick with it and always start from new on the watch if it jams up or you'll be there for ages.

Gavin.

(@MaxdMerc)

Thank you for this suggestion. I signed out of iMessage and it went through without fail.

I can’t not pair my Apple WatchOS 4 in my iPhone iOS 11, don’t understand, the Bluetooth always blinking but cannot connects to the phone, can’t someone help me?

Can you explain bit more on this ? :/ iPhone: iOS 11 Beta 2 & WatchOS 4 beta 1 :/ Bluetooth keeps blinking and hanged

To anyone, really who is having this problem; perhaps try removing the watch from your iCloud devices and then try pairing again. Worked for me!

Same for me

Any update on how to fix ? All ideas suggested in this forum did not work for me .

That's a good idea.. Haven't tried this yet. I had a hardware issue and am now using a different iPhone 7+ and I'm seeing three different restore options when I try to pair my Apple Watch to the New iPhone, but I'm not seeing a Backup of the Apple Watch on watchOS 4, just the latest release of 3, which I'd think should still technically work, but doesn't. I tried setting it up as new, too, but that just fails and says to try again. I've seen others post that you just have to keep trying lol but that hasn't worked for me... I did make sure that the proper Dev Profiles are installed, and I am running iOS 11 b2, too. I guess I'll keep trying? Haven't tried rebooting the watch yet, though.

Watch pairing issue is resolved in iOS 11 beta 3 😀 .

PS: If you are not able to pair, try repairing it / restart your watch

Yes it worked. Just disable the iMessage and it went with no problem. Thanks man.

Can't pair my watch to my iPhone anymore either. Watch OS 4 b3 and iOS11 b3.

Tried removing the device from iCloud, switched off iMessage, correct dev profiles installed. Tried manual and automatic pairing.

Bug report filed with sysdiagnose log attached.

Crossing my fingers for a swift fix as I miss using my watch already.

Hi Nick,

Submitted a bug report (rdar://33416223) today with configurations, screenshots, steps to reproduce and sysdiagnose. Hope this helps get the issue resolved soon! Wasn't exactly sure where to file it (whether iOS + SDK or watchOS + SDK or as a hardware issue), so I ended up classifying as watchOS + SDK.

Can you explain bit more on this ? :/ iPhone: iOS 11 Beta 2 & WatchOS 4 beta 1 :/ Bluetooth keeps blinking and hanged

I am having this issue too. Unable to pair. I’m using watchos 4 beta 3 and iOS 11 beta 3. I unpaired the watch from the watch app in the iPhone 7 because the Bluetooth headset was not playing nice. I had two of the same Bluetooth headsets in settings and wouldn’t play to either. When I re-pair it, I can progress past the initial language screen on the watch and the connecting screen the iPhone app, then I choose wrist side and the app continues to the “activating” screen and the watch face says “setting language “ then it fails back to the pair screen. I have tried about 20 times now. I tried pairing with an iPhone 6 iOS 11 beta 3 and exact same issue so it must be the watch. I’ve tried the suggestion to turn off iMessage and iCloud all together, still nothing. I have restarted the watch and the iPhone. Reset network settings on iPhone. Erased all contents and setting on the iPhone. Tried a different language on the watch. Nothing worked. Seams like an issue with the watch so I am pretty stuck since I cannot upload a new firmware or erase the watch without a way to plug it into the Mac. Does it sound like I will have to send it into Apple?

I kept trying and it worked. I kept trying to force press the screen and reset to factory settings. I was out walking and on 4G connection. I just worked and didn’t need to play with the language settings. I can’t explain it. Must have been force resetting it several times and closing the app on the phone or a combination of all those things in the right sequence and a little help from the serenity prayer. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change ...

Force touching the screen and resetting the watch definitely worked for me.

I was having all the same issues described by others.