Apple Watch Series 4 Stuck in Boot Loop After Reset

Honestly, this was NOT caused by the consumer! There should be no reason why we are the ones that need to pay for a repair on this. How convenient that it is outside of the warranty period when this happens.

My series 5 has done the same thing I’ve tried hard reset everything the only other thing I can think of is to let the watch completely die and then charge or disconnect the battery and reconnect to try and reboot the watch will try both of these things to see if they work it’s so frustrating !!

Any change? My series 3 has been stuck in a loop asking if I want to erase all content and settings for the past 24 hours. I have tried everything in the forums. Apple is backed up with appointments, so it is not easy to get in. Just wondering if anyone found a solution?

I’m the same way, Apple logo stuck for days. It’s been a week and I’ve been trying hard reset let the phone die and charge it back again and still the same issue. I was told I would have to pay to repair something I didn’t do! Frustrating!!!!

I'm having this same issue. The first issue that happened to me was that the touch screen became completely unresponsive. After hours of rebooting, updating, unpairing and repairing, I gave up and put the watch away. Support was not willing to help other than sending it in to pay for a repair or replacement. After weeks of just sitting there, I plugged it back in just to see if it would work. It came up but the display was acting funny. I unpaired and re-paired and it started working again. But then after two weeks, it went to this boot loop issue and nothing seems to be working. I would love to hear if anybody is able to get out of it somehow.

Has anyone made any progress with their watches? Mine is a series 5 and I’m currently in the process of sending it in for the second time in a month. I’m not confident it will be the last time, but worried it will happen again when the warranty has expired (if they fix / put a plaster on it)

I agree. My watch just quit working and has gone to the cycling of the apple logo. I went to the Genius Bar and the suggestion is since your watch is outside of the warranty period it would be $375 dollars for a replacement. It seems that this is the way Apple force people to upgrade or pay for another device. Even my daughter's iPhone 8 is starting to glitch; she predicted that within a few months close to the iPhone 12 it would happen and low and behold if it hasn't. I'm disgusted with the Apple business model. My wife has refused to go over to Apple from Google Pixel and I should have done the same thing. I'm not happy.

Yup as of 2 days ago ran into this issue on my series 4 as well have tried everything posted in forums to try and fix the issue but still stuck in an Endless Apple logo boot up screen when connected to charger never stops shows logo for about 4 seconds turns black then does cycle again have yet to have it power all the way up even after battery draining it. Can call Apple but will know it will be pointless cause they won’t solve any issue cause they’ll just tell me to try what I’ve already tried haha

I guess that is what I am going to do as well. The thing is, I do not have the Wyze app or anything on my watch specifically, it was just the Wyze app on my iPhone and the notifications were being mirrored. I have ALL notifications from my iPhone to watch off as of now. The only thing that I will get on my watch right now is like messages, phone calls, etc ( I would think)....stand notifications etc. If I get a power cycle with everything off then obviously this is a bunch of non sense.

I will keep reporting back with anything as it happens. If people want to do the same that would be great. 👍🏻

Yes that's exactly what I have. I don't think wyze has an app for the watch, just mirror notifications. Right now I just have Gmail, discord, PoGo and PoGo home turned on for mirror notifications and has been fine last 3 days. Today (day 4) was first day for discord and I got tons of notifications thru it and no rebooting.

Mine has the same problem but I can’t even hard reset or unpair it. It is stuck on apple logo.

I left 20 days out of charger but when I put it back to charge. It showed the charging logo and then stuck again on apple boot logo loop.

It’s out of wareanty and they want to charge me almost the price of a new one.

this is ridiculous since it is clearly a software problem.

Same problem here

in Brazil the price to “fix” its to pay R$3.800 that is about $717 and they give me a new one.

Apple is talking about ESG, but how they will be compliant when they do this? Replace watch for 3 x price in a poor Country like Brazil and discard battery, plastic, etc??!!

that the last thing that I buy I’m Apple ever!!!

now they really make me hate this Apple!!!

My S4 has had this plus calling SOS, taking random pictures and opening apps up. Was taken in to John Lewis, overseen by Apple and was told there was NO FAULT FOUND!!!!

Each time it returned it lasted 24-48 hours then the SOS issue followed by bootloop.

End of November it was returned for a third time and I was told my warranty would be extended. End of November SOS happened again - John Lewis denied the extra warranty saying there was nothing wrong with it, telling me to call Apple.

After several calls Apple assistant helped unpair their watch that stuck it in the bootloop again and nothing gets it out. Left unplugged for 5 hours - Logo then black screen - force restart - black screen.

Left on charge for 8 hours and it bootlooped the whole time.

Repair is dearer than trade in but now it doesn’t stay on so will probably get less trade in value.

Not happy - WAC

I'm using Apple watch since 2018. I'm fully satisfied with it. I mostly use it to train my pet and set timing on it.