The new features of watchOS 7 reached all Apple Watch users a few days ago highlighting the new dials or the native sleep tracking. But this update has not been perfect, since there have been many users who own an Apple Watch Series 3 who have detected some very annoying bugs. In this article we discuss everything that happens around this smartwatch model.
watchOS 7 causes errors on Apple Watch Series 3
After the installation of watchOS 7 on the Apple Watch Series 3, a new thread has been generated in the Apple support forum where the owners of these watches have specified the errors that have occurred. The most common failure is related to the performance that has been severely affected with this new update, something that does not happen in the rest of the teams of higher generations. The theory specifies that this new update is fully compatible with the Series 3, but the optimization does not say exactly the same. Navigating between menus or opening applications sometimes becomes an almost impossible task.
The disconnections of the iPhone to which it is linked or the inability to load the complications in different spheres are other of the many errors that have been reported. These performance and connectivity issues weren’t present in watchOS 6 a few weeks ago so it’s clear that watchOS 7 is the culprit.
This is without a doubt one of the worst updates that has been released for the Apple Watch Series 3 as quoted in this forum. In addition to performance and fluidity issues, clocks have also been caused to randomly reset without following a particular pattern. Although no application is opening that could cause a crash and has a good level of charge, the icon of the bitten apple appears on the screen with a black background. After several minutes of waiting in this view, the clock starts again without throwing any type of error or information about what has happened. This causes discomfort among users who when they want to check their watch find it restarting and not being able to use it.
The Apple Watch Series 3 abandoned
Although currently in the Apple Store you can buy an Apple Watch Series 3 for just over 300 euros, without a doubt the company is beginning to abandon it. Starting with the many new features that are included in software updates that cannot be exploited in Series 3 to these optimization issues. It must be remembered that in the case of watchOS you cannot go back in any case when you install a new version of the operating system. This forces the user to live with all the bugs present until a new update comes out. Many will think that watchOS 7.0.1 solved some of these but the truth is that the experience remains the same. With these movements it is easy to think that Apple is preparing so that the Series 3 is not compatible with watchOS 8 and ends up leaving it to die.
