Apple Withdraws watchOS 11.1 Beta 3 Update Due to User Complaints

TapTechNews October 3rd news, the tech media 9to5Mac released a blog post yesterday (October 2nd), reporting that after receiving multiple feedbacks from AppleWatch users about bricking, Apple has withdrawn the watchOS 11.1 Beta 3 update (internal version number: 22R5559b).

TapTechNews queried the Reddit community and the X social platform and found that some AppleWatch users reported problems with Messages information synchronization and deadlock issues after upgrading to the watchOS 11.1 Beta 3 version.

Users reported that the AppleWatch was in a bricked state after upgrading and could not be repaired even after restarting. One user reported:

It freezes every time after restarting. I restarted the AppleWatch by holding the side button and the crown, and less than a minute after the restart, it completely froze again.

The AppleWatch does not update the time after upgrading, and the entire operation is paralyzed. This happened when someone texted me, and it has continued to occur since then, and now it has started to freeze for the seventh time.

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