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

Interested to know if the affected watches are cellular enabled watches only or is it both cellular and non-cellular platforms

Mine is a Series 9, stand-alone 41mm watch (non-celullar)

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Same here I turn on my Apple Watch and I see this random arrow I search it up and apple tells me to reboot it I do so and it starts calling 911.

I did exactly this - and it worked. Thank you! Really helpful. No longer need to go to th Apple Store tonight!

Yup. A waste of your time, and a waste of their time.

Thank you mjanelle4…this corrected my issue!

I can't believe it is now May 17 and people are still reporting their watch is going bonkers. And not a word from Apple!!! Shame. What are people doing who don't know about Apple Discussions page?

I sent mine in for repair last week and it was returned - no issue identified.

There was an update this morning.

My watch did this also but I reset it before it called 911. It did send random text messages. But now it says I’m putting in the wrong passcode to unlock. Please help

Read the other 19 pages.

No.

Mine did it for the first time (as reported somewhere in this long ticket) a week or two AFTER updating to 10.4

I did contact Apple support and their response was Apple is aware of the issue and actively investigating it. Hopefully they will find the root cause soon and release it in an update.

This exact same thing happened to me around 3am PST Feb 6th, 2024. Woke me out of a dead sleep with some loud alarm sound. Then when I looked at my watch it was as though someone had hacked into my watch - or was trying to - and the screen was going crazy between trying to enter in all these different wrong passcodes and all my apps, and trying to call 911. I wasn’t able to stop the screen craziness no matter what I did, until I hard rebooted my watch (pressing & holding both buttons together on the side for 10 seconds until I saw the apple icon). But then it wouldn’t let me try to enter my passcode to unlock my watch and kept giving me 3 hrs wait times to attempt to log in. I finally had to call Apple Support and thank God I did because they knew exactly how to fix it. The lady had to lead me through how to unpair the watch from my iPhone, do both the update for my iPhone and my watch, and then restore everything back onto my watch (basically wipe it and then put everything back on) after the update installed. Oh, and P.S., the watch update install and pairing back to my iPhone process took over an hour, where this lady had to remote access my iPhone and help me through the process and then sit on the phone with me while all this downloaded and installed. What a pain in the butt. She also said “the Apple Engineers are working on whatever is causing this but we are calling it ‘ghost watch’.” Just an FYI for whoever this happens to next that needs to follow this process. But now that all that is done, my watch is back to working properly.