watchOS 5.1 is out

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It adds some new faces, one of which I really like. It is "color" but I've chosen to just have the ring of minutes on my Series 2 watch. It has four complications, which is nice.
 

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Looks like the updaters at Apple were busy today. Updates to iOS, watchOS, and macOS. :)
 

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WatchOS was pulled due to a few people reporting that their Apple Watch was bricking during the update.
 
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Ashwin, is there a reference for that? I've not seen that anywhere else on the internet at all. I think some people don't realize how slowly the  watch updates. My Series 2 took close to two hours to complete. At one point it had the progress bars, then went black and after a short time the  showed up again, it went rapidly back to the bars and then completed. I suspect some folks took it off power when the  appeared, thinking it was done and booting, but it was another 30 minutes until the watch actually started.
 

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For some reason my guardian angel reminded me to search for any issues with the update. I found on MacRumors people reporting issues with the update on the S4. I decided to wait and now the update has been pulled. Evidently it is only the S4 that is having issues. Others report their S2 and S3 are having no issues. I have an S3 but I decided to wait with it too. Now it is a non-starter since it has been pulled.

This happened once before with an AW update (can't remember which one) but I got lucky and my watch did not brick. I did not want to find out if the second time would be the charm. ;D

Lisa
 

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