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

A hard reboot did not work for me and I also could not get my watch to update. I have to delete all data and start from scratch as if I had a new watch. Frustrating having to reset it up again. Luckily when mine went haywire it locked itself out for hours and did not call 911, thank god. What a mess and scary because when it happens you think someone is trying to hack your watch and take it over….

Mrkperry wrote:

So, our conclusion is that if the Apple Watch doesn’t take its medication (in the form of a software update), then it will go off its rocker?? I hate to say this after I’ve gone whole hog on Apple tech for many years, but this is a “must fix” for me. Having technology that acts this way is unacceptable, especially when it scares my family with bogus emergency messages.

The medication was to update to OS10.4

Did you?

Watch 9 went wonky this morning. Tried several ways to reset and finally looked here. The only thing that worked was to press the crown and the side button below it together for 10 seconds and wait for the apple to appear. Now it seems to be working well. There must be a glitch of some kind since so many people have also had this problem.

Hold down the crown button and side button together for about 10 seconds u til you see the Apple logo. Doing that fixed mine

I strongly recommend contacting Apple, I did a chat today to let them know, same exact experience. Everyone with this issue NEEDS to let them know so we don’t have the same problem again.

I faced the same problem this morning on 8/2/24, but the problem is solved once I put it kn charger and you may try that.

I have only seen reports of it happening once after an update and fixed with a forced restart.

You should always restart a watch after an update

Os10.4 resolved the bug.

I ended up unpairing and installing the latest software update after nerves calmed. 24 hours of peace so far.

I just had the same thing happen to me. My daughter said just completely reset it from the beginning. What the ****! Not even paid off yet!

Report it https://apple.com/feedback

Anyone who thinks they still have the bug in 10.4 tell Apple

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If it still does it on OS10.5 contact Apple Support.

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Mine was going crazy yesterday! (Jan 31, 2024) The display was jumping around like crazy and nothing would work. Like it was having a seizure! I took it off and put it on the charger for a few seconds and it went back to normal.