What a barkin nightmare. Its been downloading for an hour and has said 5 minutes remaining for most of that time. REally? This could be the last time I bother updating. Not much in it for those who dont have watch3, anyway.
[end grumble]
What a shame you cant stop the update. Iām over it. (well i did stop it by rebooting the phone. Nothing had changed on the watch, no harm no foul. Iāll try again tomorrow. Maybe the servers are getting hammered.
Iām staying away from watch os 4. Everything Iāve read says it slows the series 1 down and is worse on the battery. Then again, I donāt have much choice given Iām holding on with iOS 10.3.3 until they fix the awful control centre wifi toggle and make it fast and stable.
It slowed down my Series 0, but I read a couple of comments elsewhere that thereās a bit of a performance boost on 4.1. Iām actually downloading it right now to see. Series 3 (naturally) is working fine.
Update: Well, after waiting for almost an hour for the download and updating of the Gen 0 Watch, it is a lot more responsive, not Series 2 or 3 responsive, but much more usable than it was on 4.0.
The phone reboot as referenced previously actually did not stop anything. As soon as I looked at the upgrade page, there it was again, stuck. Its a pity Apple does not give us any way to elegantly exit from a situation like that. IN the end I unpaired the watch, rebooted the phone, and re-paired the watch. I dont think Iāll try to update again. There isnt much about it thats for the rest of us, anyway.
WatchOS 4.0 has been fine on my series 1. No noticable impact on battery or performance
I updated my S3 the other night. Completed in about half an hour (I wasnāt really timing). No issues at all.
Yeah there wouldnāt be any with the Series 3 updates-wise at least for 8 months. Mind you, 4.1 on the Series 0 has actually made more usable!
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Oh dear, the frustration of it all. I tried again yesterday afternoon and exactly the same thing happened. Seized up at 3 minutes to go, I left it for 3 hours, came back, and it was still stuck. Had to unpair and re-pair, again. I think I am giving up. (I know, I said that beforeā¦ maybe Iāll try again later)
My biggest beef with watchOS 4 is the way it changed the way the watch worked yet again. I wish they would just settle on a UX and refine rather than trying a whole new way of working each time. Personally, I liked the dock format in watchOS 3 - specifically that certain Apps were always in the same position rather than just the ārecent itemsā list we have now. 
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anyone get stuck at āpreparingā after downloading the software?
Oh what! Have we lost the dock in Watch OS 4? I love the dock - I keep my most used Apps in it because the home screen is a fairly terrible way of navigating. Apple certainly knows to to ruin its software this year.
My sticking point was at download, it just wouldnt. If its stuck on preparing, ouch, I dont think you can do anything much about that
Its gone through and installed. took two goes. Second time it worked.
I selected new playlists to sync. left it to do its thing. now found four completely different playlists have synced.
still setting it up as a new watch. It will be a long night!
Yep, iām not that fond of 4 either, stopped using the dock, because its something else now. Its just weird.
[edit] next morning ā¦ well, middle of the night reallyā¦ I found that fpr whatever reason the update had downloaded even though I had opted not to have it do so. So it was ready to install, Done and dusted at last. I guess it was my turn.
Canāt you change this to āFavouritesā within the Watch app to get back to your ordered list of apps?
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Oh my gosh! Amazing. Thank you for this hint!!!