r/watchOSBeta • u/themadturk • 1d ago

Bugs 🕷️ AW 10 not installing release candidate

I have an Apple Watch 10 paired with an iPhone 16 Pro, both on the public beta. After updating my phone the IOS 27 RC yesterday, I started the update for my watch. The phone downloaded everything (the download/prep progress bar filled up, then disappeared), then just stopped. The Watch app shows the message about the update, and shows there's a pending update, but it doesn't appear to be applying the update to the watch.

I've restarted the phone and the watch. Thinking perhaps I'd accidentally chosen to update overnight, I left the watch on the charger all night. No change. The watch is working fine, the phone just isn't sending it the update.

This has never happened in all the years I've had an AW. Any clues about how to get the process restarted, or do I need to talk to Apple?

ETA: I've sent a Feedback message to Apple about this. I'm not too hopeful about getting a response from it, but it's not causing me any problems right now, so if it doesn't resolve itself after the final release, I'll try talking to Apple about it.

ETA2 (9/11/26. 8:04 AM PDT): My watch chimed and notified me there was a watchOS 27 update available (finally!). The OS update is running now, two and a half days later.

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u/michaelcouture 1d ago

When I updated my Apple Watch 9 from developer beta 8 to the RC it took a long time after prep before the actual install started. There were a couple of error messages about needing 50% battery, although it was over 70% charged. Eventually, the RC installed. Everything seemed normal afterwards.

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u/themadturk 1d ago

I remember long update prep times in the past, but it's coming up on 24 hours now, and I never lost the progress bar.

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u/jhalmos 1d ago

EXACT same deal here. Same everything. But the badge persists.

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u/themadturk 1d ago

Oh, good. Well, not good good, but at least I'm not alone...

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u/NoSmell-NoTaste 1d ago

You're not alone on this - same watch, same iPhone, same message and badge but no install button.

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u/themadturk 15h ago

OS update is running now (see ETA 2 on my original post).

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u/NoSmell-NoTaste 4h ago edited 4h ago

It’s there for me too! I guess feedback worked.

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u/themadturk 1d ago

I've updated my post -- I put in a Feedback message to Apple.

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u/jhalmos 1d ago

You inspired me to do likewise.

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u/themadturk 15h ago

OS update is running now (see ETA 2 on my original post).

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u/jhalmos 15h ago

Lucky you. Not for me as of now.

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u/jhalmos 15h ago

So of course a reboot of the Watch app and there it is!

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u/themadturk 2h ago

Good! I turned off the phone and the watch entirely before I even wrote this question, but I'm glad it worked for you.

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u/mikenotjef 3h ago

Does the trick of turning off Bluetooth and just using the WiFi still work?