Apple Watch Series 6 - CONSTANTLY locking

Mine was triggered back in early October when the iOS update occurred. I shut off wrist detection and it solved the problem but did not allow several functions to work properly. Every WatchOS update since has not worked, including the most recent one. I tried everything you mentioned and zip.

I finally went to the Apple Store to show them what it was doing. They said it is most likely a hardware issue and are sending it to the engineers at Apple for further investigation. Fingers crossed it gets fixed.

Hello there

i always thought it was an update issue too as my watch was working fine for several months, and then I had this issue following an update. Looks like Apple have sorted the problem, as I did what you suggested; which I had tried before with no effect; so it appears the issue is solved as you say. So far phone hasn’t locked yet and passcode and wrist detection is still on. Tentative Yay! 🙋🏾‍♀️

At first when I tried this, I thought I spoke too soon as it was starting to re-lock again, but I wondered if it might also be if the watch thinks with the wrist detection that my watch is not on my wrist at times, as I like to wear it a little loose

I took a link out of the watch strap so there is no movement of the watch on the wrist, and I’ve tried it several times and it hasn’t locked.

I’m still nervous and keep checking to see if it’s all short lived, but at present it’s working fine.

I don’t fully trust it yet but I’ll see how I get on over the next couple of days.

Hey guys, the reason why the series 6 is doing that (I spoke to a friend that is an apple engineer) is because the series 6 has new sensors for the blood oxygen and its a know issue. I believe they are working on fixing it ...

Thank you, that’s useful to know. Let’s hope they get it sorted soon.

It would be great for them to share this internally so that all Apple support workers are duly informed to save them wasting their time when we constantly contact them 😢

Hi. It’s not just series 6. I have a series 4 that was working fine, and then after an update just kept locking. I think it’s an update issue rather than a series 6 issue. Like I said, the same happened to me.

I have this issue as well. It's incredibly frustrating and I hope this gets resolved with an update soon.

I started wearing my Series 5 watch again.

Oh my gosh... yes, I do have tattoos and the watch sits right on top of them.

Unfortunately, I have them on both arms so I guess I'm stuck waiting for Apple to figure this one out!

I'm having the same issue, my apple watch series 5 was absolutely fine with my tattoo, it never locked itself like ever, the series 6 is constantly locking, it is very frustrating !!

me too and I have taken all those steps as well. peeving me beyond belief.

and no tattoos.

I found that toggling the unlock with phone needed to be flipped a few times to get the watch to work with the phone properly.

I have series 6

Same here! And ALL of my workouts paused itself within 1 minute after starting. No tattoo, never had this problem before. VERY frustrating!

I think for myself this was a birthday gift which cost over £700 for a special birthday and it’s just terribly frustrating that nobody can help me....

Mines an 11 pro - I previously had a series 3 which was in no issues at all- but this!!!!!