I bought a new Apple Watch for my wife. She has a 1st gen iPhone SE (she just loves it and doesn’t want to upgrade). The watch won’t work with her phone - obviously something I should have checked into before purchasing. Is there anything I can do? Like maybe swap the watch out for an earlier model?

  • @drewx0r
    5•1 year ago

    It looks like anything from Series 7 down will work with your wife’s SE with iOS 15.

    The small print from the Apple Watch Series 7:

    Apple Watch Series 7 requires an iPhone 6s or later with iOS 15 or later.

    iPhone SE was released after the iPhone 6s and can take iOS 15 so you should be good

      • @drewx0r
        4•1 year ago

        Zndl points out correctly that the trick is to not update the watch past watchOS 8. I would hope the watch series 7 would still ship with watchOS 8.

        The most recent watch that maxes out at watchOS 8 is the series 3 but that one is pretty underpowered, so I’d have a hard time recommending it.