My Apple Watch 9 is acting weird - Is this a bug?

Same thing happened to my Series 9 Apple Watch. It called 911 not once but twice. Finally unpaired it from phone and reinstalled. Had to update phone in order to update watch. Did anyone experience their watch becoming extremely hot during this update? Mine did. Not happy about the whole situation and having to tell our state police when they called to make sure everything was okay. Embarrassing!!!

I had this happen today and I contacted apple support. Said they had never heard about this issue before and did not suggest I needed to update. I am updating now so hopefully all will be good. Even asked me to video tape the problem if it happens again because no one there knows about this problem.

My husband's just did that last night and called 911, who called us back and then a cop showed up, this is all at 10:30 at night. He said it just went nuts, he hadn't touched it. Has anyone found out why this is happening. His is a Series 9, about a year old.....He was finally able to hard reboot it and today it has been fine.

Mine just did the same thing tonight. I noticed the screen had changed on its own and it started glitching. I tried turning it off and it sent a text to my emergency contacts and called emergency services. I did a hard reset and finally got it updated.

I noticed a couple of times this week, my watch was on odd screens/apps that I generally don't use.

Tonight, however, it did like several other folks and just went nuts...cycling through screens really fast and then sirens and then calling 911. I finally got it to hard reset.

I've updated iOS and WatchOS to the latest revs so hopefully that'll stop it. This is my 3rd Apple Watch and never had anything like it happen before.

10.4 did no fix the issue. I experience this issue in January and Apple replaced the watch. Little did the geniuses at the Apple Store knew. My knee watch on OS 10.4 did the same thing again and called 911 twice. I put it in the charger, then rebooted. So far so good.

My Apple Watch 9 has done this twice now. A month or so ago, it went crazy and locked me out. I did a reboot and it has been fine until today. Today it went crazy again, but also sounded the siren, called 911, and contacted my emergency contacts. I reached out to Apple Support and they ran a diagnostic, which didn't turn anything up. I am updating to 10.4 with the hopes that it will resolve the issue. I've had 2 previous models, with no issues. Scary and frustrating!

Had a similar experience 31 March 2024- Apple Watch 9. Jumping between Apps, starting workout , racing through segments… hard reboot stopped it - hopefully won’t recur. Never anything like this with previous models…

Same thing on 3/31 about 5 amI got a random FaceTime call only on my watch and then it called one of my coworkers and one of my family members (all I know about so far). I tried shutting it off and a hard reset but all it would do is turn on the siren. I took it off my wrist and it looked like someone was trying to enter my pass code and then it would not take any code for some time. I never entered my code thinking it was a hack. After an hour I did a hard reset and everything seems to be fine now. Hopefully Apple will see these messages, very unnerving.

30/03 22pm my ultra2 has just done the same. Keeps trying to put pass code in and locking itself out. Every time the access time increases. Hard reset also keeps on adding time to the process!!! Help????

Just had the same experience, and over and over again it was attempting to log in remotely after I tore It off my wrist. I removed My banking from it now and did a hard reboot after googling how. What fun!

Just had this happen to my Series 9. Hard restart worked. But I had to wait a minute to enter my passcode because it “tried” the passcode so many times before. I’m on 10.3.1. So I’m going to update my watch.

iPhone 13 with iOS 17.4.1. Apple Watch Series 9 with OS 10.4. Problem still there. Per Apple support over the phone. I unpaired and re-paired the watch to the phone and recommended turning all SOS features off. So much for the nice features. I’ll try turning it back on again in a few months after a few more software updates.

My watch just did this exact thing. I bought it around Nov 2023, it is a Model MR8W3LL/A. IOS version 10.3.1. It called 911. I had to explain that my Apple Watch just flipped out and there was no emergency. Why did this happen? Is there a fix? I don't need my watch dialing 911 randomly. I did the hard boot, holding the 2 buttons on the side as described in other posts here. But I suddenly do NOT trust my watch.

Same thing happened to mine. Went full haywire and called 911 twice and I had to explain that my watch was going crazy. Couldn’t turn it off because everytime I pressed either of the side buttons it went crazy. Last thing I want is the cops showing up at my house in the middle of the night because some pos watch called them. So I took a hammer to it and haven’t had the problem since. Last Apple Watch I’ll ever be buying