I tried calling my wife today. It was somewhat urgent but she didn’t answer. Called a couple times, no answer. Go home and ask her what happened. Phone was in the other room . . . Understood. As we talked, she wondered out loud why her watch didn’t ring. Looked into it and couldn’t figure it out. In my search for an answer I realized she had an update due on her watch. Because of the update requirement it wouldn’t even let me check the settings. So, we did the update and the watch started ringing again for incoming phone calls. Pretty upsetting that Apple would allow functions of the watch to be disabled until you update your equipment. Especially a basic function like ringing when your phone rings. That’s some big brother “stuff” right there. Totally unappreciated. One valuable function of the watch is to allow some distance between you and your phone.
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Big brother stuff not appreciated
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I don’t think it was the update that caused the watch not to ring. It was more likely the watch just needed to be restarted as they sometimes do to get it working right again. The update restarted the watch and fixed what was going on with it at the time.
I did a restart before I did the update. It was frustrating. Because of the update, I couldn’t even see any settings for the watch on my iPhone. It was basically saying, you must do an update to access anything related to the watch.
across various Apple Watches and watchOS updates from series 2 through series 10, I’ve never seen that occur.
