If You Have An Apple Watch Series 3 Still On watchOS 6, Avoid Updating It To watchOS 7 Just Yet

The watchOS 7 update for the Apple Watch hasn’t exactly been a pleasant upgrade experience for many who are using the Apple Watch Series 3. The new watchOS update is causing issues with the Series 3 of the Apple Watch, leading to what users are reporting as random shutdowns, reboots, battery drain and app crashes. At this time, it is not clear if these specific bugs are also causing issues on other generations of the Apple Watch.

On the Apple support forums, users are reporting their experiences since the watchOS 7 update. “My series 3 completed an auto update overnight to Watch OS7. Today it has shut itself down at least 3 times, locked itself while on my wrist about 4 times, failed to load complications on multiple faces (weather, activity rings, date etc.), disconnected from my phone at least twice. It has also dropped to less than 50% battery in about 8 hours, normally it is still in the 80’s,” says a user Tjay64. That started off a chain of posts with other users reporting similar issues. “I have a Series 3 that I updated to Watch OS 7. Ever since the update the battery drains way faster, and I cannot install any apps to the watch. I have tried repairing the watch, rebooting, and hard rebooting it to no avail,” says Tim-Fin. “I’m also having issues with my Apple Watch series 3 ever since I updated to the watch OS7