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

80sLad wrote:

My Apple Watch was acting bonkers just today on the way home from work. I thought for a moment, I was going to have to call a young priest and an old priest.

As long as it doesn't mention your mother... :)

Caitlin2535 can you please add which Watch OS and Phone IOS you were running at the time. It would be great to know if this is still happening after upgrading to iOS 17.4.1 and Watch OS 10.4. Everyone else too, please include your IOS and Watch OS versions so we know if this is fixed or not.

This happened to me today, Saturday, March 30th. I'm vegging out on a device and suddenly one of the timers on my watch went off. Weird. I tried to tap cancel to no avail, then my watch started going ham! It sent a thumbs down emoji to a recent group chat (OMGoodness), set about three different timers which would go off randomly at different times, frantically switched between all of my opened apps, was flicking back and forth between "siren" "sos" and "call 911" (thank goodness neither was activated), and locked me out and wouldn't let me re enter my password after I took off my possessed little treasure. I quickly found this discussion by searching "Apple Watch going crazy". I tried the hard reset which finally worked after 5 or so tries. Mine is the Ultra 2. NEVER had this happen before on any of my other Apple Watches. What's up, Apple... Any insight?

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.

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!

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

This happened to me tonight. Could not stop the 911 call and calls to familly. Apple chat no help. Pressing (and press and hold) the side button and crown only created another 911 call. Just wanted you to know you are not alone. I am also afraid to do anything. Has Apple responded to anyone?

march 31 2024 My Apple Watch series 9 started scrolling . Screen was all over . Unable to stop or turn it off. Watch dialed 911 and sent out SOS alert to medical contact people . I had to turn off the 911 feature and emergency contact list 911 was not shocked .

1 April. My watch started to do the same as you described. Out of the blue. Unfortunately it called Emergency Services and sent a SOS message to my emergency contacts.

Impossible to stop it pressing both buttons. I put it in the charger and left the room to breathe and get recover from the shock.

I have unpaired it and restarted it again. Hope it never happens again. I will contact Apple though…

Oh, its a brand new Series 9.

I never ever had an issue with the Series 3.

My Apple Watch 9 did the same out of the blue. Siren screaming,numbers scrolling ,Called 911 it was so nerve racking. It also texted my children an sos and after rebooting and leaving on charge it notified my children twice today of an sos without calling 911. I also am afraid to wear again. Just purchased in Dec2023

I have a 9 and this just happened to me. I hard started 3 times… it’s still locked. It’s on the charger. I even tried shutting it down while on the charger, nothing.

I can’t even get into the watch on the app to download the 10.4 update.

I’m on the 10.3 version.