Lost Apple watch

I can confirm you guys (if no one had done it yet) that its indeed a glitch from “Find My” portraying your phone location instead of the actual watch location. Lost my apple watch and i know it was dead but “Find My” said it was at a restaurant i had just eaten at and i was so certain i never wore my watch there. Eventually went back to the restaurant and checked with them, said they didnt see anything. Stripped my whole room apart and it was just behind the mattress. So if anyone from apple can fix this issue it would be great.

It sounds as if your suspicion is correct. If I were to find an Apple device, I would charge it and look on the lock screen for a message indicating whom to contact. You might try posting your phone number to your lost watch. You might just get a phone call from the kind soul who found it and charged it.

Update here…. I found my watch! It was in a jacket pocket. My phone was locating it in the house, then at a restaurant when we went to dinner, then at my office. All places my jacket was in my car with my watch in the pocket. My watch was dead the entire time so maybe the locate feature isn’t a glitch after all. It’s been missing for months! I am so happy!

After all these replies, I think I partially see the problem. The so called “detections of your Apple Watch, are only given to us from where was our phone located when it was able to ping our “lost/stolen” Watch. For a few days two or three times a day I saw updated locations, always from wherever my iPhone had been. Then one day (who ever stole it) they decided to reformat/erase the Apple Watch and I have never gotten a single ping from it anymore

UPDATE! I found mine. So I strongly believe when it keeps pinging locations you’ve been too then it’s probably in your vehicle. Atleast mine was that’s why it was pinging

Hi there OA_122,

We understand you have questions about information you're seeing in Find My.

Your Apple Watch showing offline, indicates that it's been longer than a day since it was last connected to a Wi-Fi or data network. You can find additional information, here: If Find My is offline or not working

If you have additional quesitons, to get the most accurate information and assistance with this, we reccomend that you contact Apple Support.

Cheers!

This is happening to me right now! My watch has been missing for a week. I know it’s dead because it was dead when I last saw it.

today it updated that it was with me at a store. I have a feeling it’s some how tracking my phone at this point. Or my finding skills are completely off and it’s in my car even though I’ve looked 4 times now. Someone else told me the same thing. Their watch was lost but yet it kept tracking their body/phone and updating with the red timing.

I ended up finding mine! It was showing it was at my neighbors house but it was in an Ipsy bag in my bathroom. I hope you find yours soon! The other time I lost it it was under my couch for months but it was hard to tell because it was upside down

From all these responses, it looks like the location that it claims to be from our appleWatch, it is I. Fact the location of our iPhone. Why randomly? Is it possible for the iPhone to actually detect (connect) with the gps location of our appleWatch? But seems once the appleWatch gets erased by the “new owners”, then there is no more contact

I just recently lost mine for a few days and it was dead. I looked all over and retraced my steps but it kept updating telling me it was at my apartment. It ended up being in my clove compartment of my car, so not sure if it’s a glitch or still traces it but maybe this helps!

I am having this same issue. Lost watch. Dead battery. All of a sudden it keeps updating a location. It follows my travels so I thought it was in the car, but have not found it. It must be a software glitch with the new IOS update. I spent four hours tearing my house apart and still never found it.