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

Mine just did this tonight. I went to charge it and it when I picked it up it was going crazy on the lock screen until it locked me out for 15 minutes. I did the hard reset but still locked out.

Series 9 I got for Christmas.

Just had this happen now as well - did a hard reset holding crown and right button down together for 10 seconds. Also called someone, may have been 911 not sure? Booted back up doing the same thing… is this a virus or a known bug?

My Apple Watch was doing the same thing. It was jumping from app to app and entering in all kinds of passcodes. I keep trying to shut it down but it won’t turn off.

I would think Apple knows about this and would a recall. This is so frustrating, I just bought the watch last year. 2023.

What the ****? Mine just went crazy like just now I woke up earlier than expected because my apple music played on my phone on full volume and I was confused why music was playing on my

phone when I checked my watch it was going crazy switching on and off, going to notifications switching between apps. Is this a bug?

Mine went haywire yesterday while on golf course, it called 911 dispatch, and everyone in my emergency contacts list, the watch kept trying to input my password on watch and when I tried to shutdown it went into siren mode, had my wife and daughters going crazy blowing up my iPhone talking about what happened to you, are you alright and then finally this isn’t a cool April fools joke, 911 operator forced me to identify myself and location!

I would like to know why and what caused this?, I’ve had an Apple Watch for 5-6 years and never had any issues whatsoever!

I’m very curious what they’ll tell you at Apple. Mine has been fine, thank God, though my iPhone 13 Pro was also going crazy at the same time! I contacted them and they did diagnostic tests. I’ve strongly recommended everyone call as they must fix this.

Mine just started doing this. Jumping around from app to app, then started a “walk” I couldn’t shut off, changed the watch face and when I tried to unlock it, it entered random numbers. Then locked me out. It’s a series 9 purchased on Cyber Monday 2023. 🤬

Just happened to me on April 3. No 911 call thankfully. I did the hard reboot and have it on a charger. I'm now waiting for the hour delay that the watch trying to put in 900 wrong pass codes got me to see if it is working normal again. I know I am not up to 10.4 yet so that will be the first thing I do if it is working. I did notice that when I tried to go to the watch app on the phone the phone no longer saw the watch so I'm not sure if it unpaired itself or not. This is a series 9 less than 4 months old.

My Apple Watch Ultra 9 brand new bought February 2024 is having a siezure and I have clue why. It kept putting passwords on its own and locked my out for like 20 minutes. Did a hard reset and still nothing. Any suggestions ?

My watch won’t stop demanding a passcode. After it was going crazy it said I had to wait an hour to put in the passcode. When an hour was up my watch buzzed and went to put in the passcode and now it tells me I have to wait 8 hours to put in the passcode. Ila hard restart won’t make this stop. Do I let the battery die, then recharge it or do I charge it and see if it lets me put in the passcode. Unfortunately I don’t think after 8 hours it will allow me to put in my passcode. The time may just keep going up exponentially. I thought my watch was up to date with updates.

My Ultra Just did the same thing. It was like someone took over my watch in the middle of a critical meeting. As I tried to stop it it locked me out. As soon as the lockout time was over, it started again. And Again, and again. Now I am locked out for 3 hours and I had a chance to come read something on it. I have tried the reset, I guess I will find out in 3 more hours. Very frustrating and somewhat embarrassing in the middle of a meeting I was leading.

This happened to me today with my series 9 I got for Valentine’s Day 2024. I attempted to turn it off during the episode and it ended up calling 911. Twice. My emergency contacts were notified via text and if that isn’t embarrassing enough, it called and texted MY BOSS three times. Once I took the watch off it went to the Lock Screen and it was disabled for 1 minute because of the incorrect passcodes it continued to enter. I think that’s when I finally got it to stop. I turned it off for a few hours after that. I am scared this is going to happen again. Hoping Apple will acknowledge the issue and fix it!

Same type of experience, with the Ultra. At night time, it just decided to jump between apps, showed a black screen with a message with emojis; then it seemed to lock itself out as it said 'wait one hour for passkey input' (or something). Like it was hacked. I did a reboot and we will see what happens. Next time I'll get a screen shot of the alien message.

Mine started doing the same thing. A hard restart seems to have fixed it... at least for now. I had my last Apple watch for four years without a single problem. I hope this is not an indication of things to come.

Just happened to my iWatch 9 too. I thought maybe the eclipse did it. I did a hard reboot and am charging it now. Call to Apple tomorrow. It called Emergency and can't. have that happening for no reason.