Downgrade watchOS 2 to 1.0.1

Ufortunatley the watchOS 2 needs your phone to be running iOS 9. So without your device going back to 8... it will not pair.

I have this also. Also in the messages app on the watch only messages that are in there are iMessages

Hi,

today i asked Apple Support how much the downgrade costs.

They say that they've got the message from Apple, which says that it is free.

Now they come and pick up my watch and "repair" it for free 😉(Must be send to Apple ;D)

Sorry for my bad english and have a nice day

Tom

(Region: Germany)

This is great, because my issue with the beta Watch OS 2 is that it breaks the Haptic Engine and I no longer get vibration pulses on my wrist*. How am I supposed to test different haptic pulses to the user's wrist if the beta** watch OS 2 breaks that?

* Rebooting the watch brings back the haptic engine, however it then stops working again after an undetermined about of time. Plus rebooting the watch takes about 2-3 minutes.

** This is alpha software not beta if it disables the haptic engine and interferes with my testing.

Your haptic engine breaking is excellent news, because it is a bug. That is what beta testing is for.

You can report it to Apple and they will fix it. If you want the bug to continue, do not report it to Apple and they will not fix it.

At this point, watchOS 2 has so many bugs that I think Apple is aware of it and will take its time to fix them. Like I mean, every Apple Watch on watchOS 2 beta is taking days to boot. They obviously know about it.

Possible solution: Buy another Apple Watch with 1.0.1 on it.

Availability seems to be getting better. Put your first Watch with the beta OS in a drawer. Pull it back out when a stable beta or a GM is released. Then update it, and use it, gift it, eBay one of them to recover costs, or keep it as a non-daily-use test device for the next beta test WatchOS.

Apple is not forcing anything. You choose to upgrade even though Apple warns you will not be able to downgrade and that it's a beta and their no guarantee it will work or all features will work. It's not meant for consumers or anyone to use on their personal devices. It's meant to be only installed on extra developer devices.

Apple can't force you to read the warnings. If you ignore them, then that is only your fault. Notice the URL you are on right now, forums."developer".apple. If you are a consumer or want to use it on your main device wait for the public betas.

in welchem store warst du?

würde das auch sehr gerne mit meiner watch machen....

That's nonsense. Even a dedicated device needs to be functional using beta software.

Perhaps try reading the documentation, and understand the ramifications *BEFORE* you update to beta OS versions. There is no sense in complaining about it, given it is your fault alone.

Yes...I was going to got this route as well (I actually *did* buy another watch) however you *must* have another *phone* as well because you can't pair against an older version of iOS...let alone pair multiple watches to a phone. I'm deciding if our not I'm going to take the Watch I got yesterday back because I no longer have a 5+ series phone and we can't use anything but 5-series plus phones as a "loader"...

And for the record, I have separate resources for use and dev for everything else...computers, ipads, etc.

What part of the beta is preventing you from testing your apps on it? It appears to be perfectly functional for it's intended use from my perspective.