Emoji watch face bug on watchos 8.3

Has any other one noticed that the Watch freezes randomly on watch face page on watchos 8.3 on an Apple Watch 7? It needs to be hard rebooted. Doesn’t happen on any other watch face and never happened on previous software releases.

Apple Watch Series 7

Posted on Dec 27, 2021 2:31 AM

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28 replies

Jan 27, 2022 7:41 AM in response to BJayPadz

Unfortunately it seems that the bug is still there on watchOS 8.4... just tried... looking forward to the next release!

Feb 3, 2022 8:42 AM in response to Giovannichiappetto

I updated to version 8.4.1 and the memoji watch face freezing issue is still occuring.

Feb 24, 2022 9:29 PM in response to Smallan69

Yeah, I thought I was the only one! Super annoying! Gave up on using it. Oh, well.

Dec 28, 2021 9:06 AM in response to SnickZ.

Thank you very much for the reply. Unfortunately none of it one helpful. I tried restoring many times both recovering from backup (using also different ones) and setting the watch up as new, without backup recovery. In each case the watch showed the same problem. After some time the hour page stays still showing the same hour and minutes and the watch stops responding at all. It really seams a bug of 8.3 version.

Mar 20, 2022 7:50 AM in response to BJayPadz

I think they are not aware of the problem. If only there was a way of reporting bug directly to Apple. Both Watch os and iOS gathers info about systems errors and crash automatically, but I think that as we need to change the watch face and as emoji watchface is not that popular, they may not have enough diagnostic reports to be aware of the problem…

Dec 28, 2021 10:07 AM in response to SnickZ.

I will. Thank you very much again!

Jan 23, 2022 11:35 PM in response to BJayPadz

Watch os 8.4 is arriving in a couple of days. Hope it fix this…

Jan 27, 2022 1:17 PM in response to Giovannichiappetto

Yes - that’s exactly the first thing I did after the update, tried the Memoji watch face and it’s still broken for me 😢

Feb 2, 2022 7:00 AM in response to Dave Stead

Just installed watchOS 8.4.1 released today. Unfortunately, neither this one seems to fix the issue...

Feb 3, 2022 3:09 AM in response to Giovannichiappetto

Unfortunately, I have the same problem with the watch face. It randomly freezes and I will need to reboot the watch.

Mar 15, 2022 7:09 AM in response to Giovannichiappetto

still here with WatchOS 8.5! Can’t believe with all these release we still have this bug. 😞

Mar 15, 2022 10:03 AM in response to Giovannichiappetto

Of course, I don’t think Apple has a clue what’s going on with this bug…😕

BJayPadz

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Mar 20, 2022 4:56 AM in response to gurudutt910

Sorry to hear that. I thought for a $400 product, they would be more considerate. This is definitely a bug and they should be trying to fix it.

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