{"id":156,"date":"2023-05-03T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T23:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/?p=156"},"modified":"2023-05-03T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T23:45:17","slug":"updating-an-apple-watch-that-couldnt-see-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/2023\/05\/updating-an-apple-watch-that-couldnt-see-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating an Apple Watch that couldn\u2019t see the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what\">what<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to pair an Apple Watch to a phone, an update was required; upon requesting it, the Apple Watch (through the iPhone) would cancel, reporting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Unable to check for update, not connected to the Internet<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-did-not-work\">what did not work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>rebooting the phone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>rebooting the watch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>uninstalling the Watch app from my phone &#8211; I couldn\u2019t find it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>leaving both the watch and the phone on chargers for the duration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-got-further\">what got further<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I enabled the iPhone\u2019s hotspot, which disabled its wifi, and attempted the update again. The phone started to download the appropriate firmware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes in, I re-enabled the wifi for a faster download; downloading and updating the watch both succeeded. So apparently, only the initial negotiation required this workaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why\">why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It might be wifi bands, 5GHz (faster, but shorter range) vs 2.4GHz:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the iPhone 5 (2012) was the first one to support 5GHz wifi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Apple Watch Series 6 (2020) was the first one to support 5GHz wifi, and the watch in question was a series 4 (2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"resources\">resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/forums\/thread\/105185?page=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a post on the Apple forums<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; lots that didn\u2019t help, but also the key<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what Trying to pair an Apple Watch to a phone, an update was required; upon requesting it, the Apple Watch (through the iPhone) would cancel, reporting: Unable to check for update, not connected to the Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,11,12,10],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-apple-watch","tag-iphone","tag-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}