Update withdrawn: Apple makes Watchos 11.4 disappear

Updates for all devices, but one thing is missing: Apple has provided iOS 18.4, Ipados 18.4, MacOS 15.4 and TVOS 18.4, HomePod OS 18.4 and Visionos 2.4 for download yesterday evening, but apparently forgotten the new operating system for the Apple Watch.

Watchos 11.4 was generally expected and had long since been released as a release candidate version (RC). But for a previously unknown reason, Apple withdrew. Anyone who is currently trying to update Watchos receives the information that Watchos 11.3.2 is the latest version. Also Apple’s security updates website only lists this. However, are The release notes of Watchos 11.4 To be confusing on Apple’s website.

What Watchos 11.4 should be able to do

According to Release Notes, the planned innovations in Watchos 11.4 included the support for vacuum cleaner robots in the home app including automation by language, a bug fix for a problem with a quick dial change and the possibility of ringing the alarm clock loudly even in mute mode. Furthermore, there should be a lot of security fixes in the update if you start from iOS 18.4 and Co.

Apple had withdrawn Watchos 11.4 at a very short notice. Some US Apple media have already announced availability. It would be conceivable that the update appeared briefly, but was then withdrawn due to unknown problems. At the moment (Tuesday morning) it no longer appears on the devices-neither when querying on the watch itself nor in the watch app on the iPhone.

Updates were premature anyway

Some Apple observers had been surprised that the updates had already been released on Monday, March 31. The German version of Apple Intelligence was originally announced for April, but it came yesterday. What Apple has tempted to give the appointment remains unclear. Most recently, however, the group had to deal with shifts of important functions, so the improved Siri should not be released before 2026.

It can be expected that Watchos 11.4 will appear in the next few days. A comparison of the build number will show whether Apple has screwed again at the update. The alarm function in particular is hot by many users, the problem is bothered by many in a long time.