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Originally Posted by Diemenz
My daughter has an iPhone 6 as well and when the watchOS update came out the second line said “watchOS 6 requires iPhone 6s or later with iOS 13 or later installed”. She walked over to me and asked what type of phone she has. I can totally get the frustration over this but it was communicated before the update and that particular update was not an automatic update for that reason as it requires iOS 13 to pair.
How did you do the update as it does not allow you to update the watch through the phone app to iOS 6 when the phone is running iOS 12?
You have to send in your watch to downgrade watchOS you can do this through Apple help just tell them your issue. The upside is the normally just give you a new watch when you send it in as that has happened to me 3 times and twice they actually upgraded the model as well (series 0 to series 1 then later upgraded that to a series 2)
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This is a new watch, just purchased (you can still buy Apple Watch Series 3 brand new from many retailers, including Apple). They are now shipping Series 3 watches with OS 6, so you don't have the option to decline the upgrade.
I went back and checked the Apple website and if you scroll right to the bottom of the page, in tiny greyed-out font it does say 6s or higher. You could argue I was warned; however, it doesn't change the fact that I
knew the Series 3 worked with iPhone 6 phones because I have two friends that had this exact set up. The hardware works together fine. Apple changed the software
knowing it would mean people were going to buy this watch and not have it work with their iPhones. I'm sure they crunched the numbers and determined it'll push enough people to upgrade their phones to work with the watch and they didn't care about the people that wouldn't/couldn't.
If you look up this issue online, there are many people totally piiiiiissssssed about it. Not the end of the world, of course, but super annoying, unnecessary, and a total hassle to rectify considering I can't just go to the mall right now.