iOS14.2 Sleep Mode Stuck

I figured out a work around until Apple fixes the kinks... open your phone and go to the main screen. Pull down from the right (where the quick icon for airplane mode is) and turn you phone off do not disturb mode there.

I unpaired my phone & watch and then paired them back together. This took my watch out of sleep mode but didn’t fix my phone. I then went to SETTINGS ➡️ Control Center and found SLEEP and clicked the red circle 🔴 with the minus sign. This fixed my phone.

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The reboot has not happened again, but I think I figured how to reproduce this watch lockdown. When using the sleep tracking mode (not standard alarms), if you are not wearing your watch at night and it is charging (with night table mode), the wake up alarm will be sent to your phone instead of the watch.

It becomes impossible to get rid of the sleep mode and it keeps falling back to the night table mode. This is until you have cleared the actual wake-up/alarm on the phone itself so it can say good morning. Then the watch will come back to life. Just weird. I would expect the alarm to be sent to the watch on my night table.

I tried everything rebooting my phone going through the control center and turning it off seeing if that work and It did not the only thing that worked for me was turning my actual screen time off

APPLE HELP. PHONE DOES NOT GET CALLS. WATCH STUCK IN SLEEP MODE. TURNING ON AND OFF DOES NOT FIX. URGENT.

Where you’ll see your notifications

Notifications go to either your Apple Watch or iPhone, but not both. Learn when a notification might appear on your iPhone, instead of your Apple Watch, below.

If your iPhone is unlocked, you'll get notifications on your iPhone, instead of your Apple Watch.

If your iPhone is locked or asleep, you'll get notifications on your Apple Watch, unless your Apple Watch is locked with your passcode.

Some apps, such as the Noise app, are only on your Apple Watch. Notifications for these apps don't appear on your iPhone.

The red notification icon  appears on your watch face when you get a notification. When you dismiss notifications on your Apple Watch, they’re also dismissed from your iPhone. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I’ve been searching for an answer for this all morning and this was the only useful answer I’ve found.

Thanks @cthompson119

Dear Apple: this is a problem. I should not have to go to my phone to “wake up” my watch!

@frederic85, I don’t think the two are related. I’ve used the workaround a few times now and haven’t experienced this issue. Probably just a coincidence.

I’d be interested to hear if the issue is repeatable for you though.

This is the second time my phone and watch have become stuck in sleep mode. The first time, I turned off my watch and charged it to 100% and everything was back to normal. This time nothing will fix it. I have turned both devices off & on, charged them, done the swipe down on phone screen to turn off dnd (which made the crescent moon icon disappear but did not fix the problem). I have tweeted Apple but they asked me to DM them and won’t reply to the DM hahah HELP!!

Interesting: my watch rebooted a minute after I used the workaround.. not sure if it was related, but it is the first time this happens.

Thank you soooo much! I’ve been at work trying to fix this all day! What a life saver ❤️

I wear my watch at night and have the problem

Mine too