Apple Watch Ultra Black Screen
Hi, my Apple Watch Ultra goes to black screen unexpectedly. It is a bit of a complicated story, so I need your patients please 😰
My Apple Watch Ultra is connected to an iPhone 13 Pro Max. All software is up to date.
The watch’s screen, and for no known reason and with no specific pattern, becomes completely black. I know the watch is still on and working, but the screen is black. For example:
- I would be working out and playing music from the watch (the phone is not connected), I can still hear the music and the feedback from Siri on my workout.
- I get the haptic alerts when I receive a notification. ...
Furthermore, it responds to touches and button pressing but the freaking screen is still black 🤪. I know this because I mirrored the watch's screen on my iPhone and I can see how it responds to touches, scrolls and other gestures.
Obviously, it happens even if the battery is fully charged.
The only way to get out of this black screen is to take it off for at least couple of seconds, then wear it again!!! No need to restart it or put it on a charger or anything else. Just take it off and wear it again!
Unfortunately this behavior happens very randomly and I cannot re-produce it. It could happen every few mins or in couple of hours or even a day or two, then it happens all of a sudden!
So I did what anyone who is driven crazy by these tech problems will do:
- I reset the watch, no luck.
- I un-paired it and paired it again (as new watch), no luck.
- I reset the network settings on my iPhone (thinking it may it is may be the communication protocol that is causing this), no luck.
- I reset the phone and the watch, no luck.
- I reset the phone and set it up as new phone (you can imagine the amount of time that took), no luck.
- Finally and after calling Apple Support, who asked me to do all the above again, I factory restored the iPhone and clean installed the ipws file of the iOS (may be the iOS was corrupted and causing this, this was an advice from Apple Support engineer). Then fresh installed everything, NOW YOU REALLY CAN IMAGIN THE TIME THIS TOOK, but NO LUCK
After all that, I took it to Apple Support, they did all the checks and everything was ok. So they send it to their tech guys who reset it to it is original setting, test it for few hours, decided there are no problems, send it back to me only to face the same problem next day 🤨
I have Apple Care+ on it, so after a lot of fighting with them, they replaced it for me.
I wish the problem ended here. This was 8 months ago and guess what, the problem appeared again on the new watch couple of weeks back 😩😩😩
It is driving me crazy, and I really need help here
By the way, it is may be a coincident, but the problem started to appear after upgrading to the latest WatchOS 9.6
Apple Watch Ultra