Up until now if you experienced problems with the software on your Apple Watch, and the standard OTA method didn’t work, you were forced to visit an Apple Store to resolve the issue. In fact, I have an Apple Watch Series 0 sitting on my shelf right now that I’ve not used for the past 6 months because I haven’t bothered to schedule an appointment at the Genius Bar.
The folks over at MFC claim to have a limited solution to this problem: the iBus Data Cable — a small little dongle that attaches to the maintenance port nestled inside the band reservoir on the Apple Watch. Many Apple Watch users probably have no inkling that such a port exists, but the team at MFC have engineered a dongle to take advantage of the I/O provided by this port to facilitate watchOS restores. more…Filed under: Apple
