My watch went crazy today, flicking between different screens, typing its own texts, I couldn’t stop it or turn it off, had to just wait for battery to go flat to stop.
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It's a bug in 10.3 on s9 and U2 watches.
Update phone to iOS17.4.1 and watch to watch OS 10.4
If a hard reboot does not fix it then Wipe Watch and set up again then update
Put Apple Watch on its charger.
Press and hold the side button until you see the screen with the power button in the upper-right corner, then let go of the side button. If your Apple Watch has an earlier version of watchOS, you see the Power Off slider instead of the power button.
Press and hold the Digital Crown until you see the red Reset button.
Tap Reset, then tap Reset again to confirm.
After Apple Watch unpairs completely, you can pair again. Remember that you'll need the Apple ID and password that were used to set up the watch.
Mine did the “gone crazy” thing too. Rebooted watch and watching current function. Any other ideas why?
You didn't read the release notes in OS10.4 that specifically mentioned this?
If you are already in a passcode loop you need to reset the watch.
I have the same issue and I am having to reset and resync. This is happening often!
Are you running OS 10.3 or OS 10.4?
I have the same issue! The watch went crazy, hopping from app to app. I took it off from my wrist and it looks like some one is trying to guess the password - trying different number combinations.
I’m not able to restart it. It looks like I have to wait until it runs out of battery.
Had this same issue today and still having! Now my watch says try again in 4hours!!!!! when that time is up it will automatically start typing random numbers and lock me out again. Do I just reset watch from phone app?
Mine just woke me up out of a dead sleep at 5am (CET) buzzing like crazy (in Sleep Focus) and by the time I got my glasses on, I couldn't see what the **** it was notifying me about, but I also couldn't get the screen to respond to any attempts to tap on it, and it was going nuts jumping from app to app, like someone else was messing with it.
This is by far the weirdest Apple experience I have had.
This happened to me literally right now as soon as I woke up it started jumping from app to app, entering passcodes and do everything. I think it must be a software bug because all of the these posts are recent. So apple might need to fix it here shortly.
Today is March 5 and my 9 did the same thing this morning. I am currently locked out of it for an hour. I too thought I was being hacked. Clearly Apple has an issue that needs to be fixed. I will try and see if the prior fixes will get it to work. Thanks.
I woke up and had the same issue on my Ultra 2. My watch kept trying to type in its own password, timer kept going off, and it called sos on its own. I’m still trying to figure out what’s going with it
Look at the post before yours.
Unfortunately this STUPID forum shows the wrong post as best reply just because it got most sympathy votes.
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Second time this happened to me. ( Ultra 2 )
It again also opened my frontdoor, as the controls are on my watchface, for my (now, not so) convenience. Dog didn't run out in the street this time, fortunately. Might need to remove the 'dangerous' controls from my watchface.
My watch just started doing this yesterday. I noticed there is a software update pending but this does not seem to be working either. I left it on the charger over night, and checked the next morning and it at least let me power it down. I am planning to schedule repair for it, but would like to know if it is worth keeping this device since I have never had this problem with any of the other series ever.
My U2 ultra also went nuts today at about noon my time in Utah. It’s bouncing around going from one app to the other and now it’s telling me I can’t do anything to it because I don’t know the password because it says I keep putting in the wrong password and it goes up and up, in the time it makes me wait before I can put it in the proper password if it even knows what the password is if I’m correct or if it thinks I’m nuts. Why did I have the note on one of your replies that says your two should be fine does that mean after I’ve gone to the procedure that shouldn’t have happened in the first place or it’s fine and I shouldn’t have had this problem, which doesn’t help me in the least bit, please answer this. I think I’m paying money for this tech-support so it’s better if you call me.
My Apple Watch Ultra 2 has been acting sporadic
