Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked

Yes! This happened to my Ultra 2 at a Cheesecake Factory location. Mine only got locked for 5 mins. I thought it was just my watch screen glitching and I had to hard reset the watch to get it to stop. This is a crazy exploit.

Even if the watch isn’t getting “hacked,” there may be some exploit that’s allowing someone to try and brute force without having physical access to the device. I’ve never seen any of my watches do what I experienced yesterday. I wasn’t connected to any public WiFi, but my watch does have LTE and was paired with my iPhone. Everything is also up to date. After force resetting the watch I haven’t experienced any issues so far. Maybe I will also reset and pair the watch for good measure.

and it happened again on march 31st. strange thing, I looked a lot like someone tried to enter the code and was not very successful with it. I reset the watch again and it stopped... for now. I´m also not too confident in the claims that this is a bug and not a hack-attempt. to me it looks honestly more like a hack...

watchOS 10.4 includes new features, improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Tap to Show Full Notification setting now allows you to double-tap to expand the notification
• Using Apple Pay with Confirm with AssistiveTouch will require a passcode for additional security and will not support double-clicking the side button
• Resolves an issue that causes some users to experience false touches on the display
• Fixes an issue that prevents contacts from syncing to Apple Watch for some users

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: Apple security releases - Apple Support

My Apple Watch Ultra 2 just got hacked as described by all, including the password attempts. I reset and erased all content. Started over with a new password.

Does Apple have a fix for this? They have been rather quiet about this hack.

This just happened to me., if I had not seen that I received a text message. That I know that I received in the AM for a fact I would have not paid much attention to it. It is April 2, 5:21 PM. I wasn't able to shut it off, but I was able to brut reset it and then I proceeded to unpair from my phone.

Question now is, is it safe to pair back again with the phone? Or is it time to go back to good old analog watch?

All help will be much appreciated.

My Ultra 2 watch just went nuts today. Wasn’t connected to wifi and in my office. Unsure if it happened via a spam call I just denied. Looked down and my watch was showing me running…then I clicked out of it trying to quit and turn off. Then my screen locked and I saw insane attempts to unlock my watch which would just increase the lock time. Unsure what occurred. Unpaired and repairing later today. Can Apple tell us what is happening?

watchOS 10.4 includes new features, improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Tap to Show Full Notification setting now allows you to double-tap to expand the notification
• Using Apple Pay with Confirm with AssistiveTouch will require a passcode for additional security and will not support double-clicking the side button
• Resolves an issue that causes some users to experience false touches on the display
• Fixes an issue that prevents contacts from syncing to Apple Watch for some users

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: Apple security releases - Apple Support

lennard160 wrote:!

Hope that happens soon or perhaps there's someone here who knows more about this issue?

yep

watchOS 10.4 includes new features, improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Tap to Show Full Notification setting now allows you to double-tap to expand the notification
• Using Apple Pay with Confirm with AssistiveTouch will require a passcode for additional security and will not support double-clicking the side button
• Resolves an issue that causes some users to experience false touches on the display
• Fixes an issue that prevents contacts from syncing to Apple Watch for some users

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: Apple security releases - Apple Support

Or read page 3

Series 9 and this happened to me on 4/3. Sent text messages out, attempted to access my online banking, accessed my iCloud and used find my phone, etc. once I removed my watch, several attempts were made to enter a numerical password. This was NOT a glitch.

May 3rd at home my Ultra 2 started acting weird with strange haptics. Then all kind very quick things were occurring including calendar events, new text… Took it off as I couldn’t get the turn off slider to work. They repeatedly entered wrong passcodes that locked the phone for 1… up to 15 minutes. I took my phone off blue tooth and drove away from my house before the 15 minutes. Somehow at 15 minutes they were back at it putting in passcodes so my phone is locked for 60 minutes but I was able to finally power it down. Very frustrating!!!

seems like Apple hasn’t issued any guidance on this issue which is concerning

This just happened to me today!! I have the Ultra 2. I was at home when I noticed it going crazy on the health app like I was doing exercise. I tried to stop it and it wouldn’t let me. I took it off and that’s when it started going through codes to unlock. It would show “too many failed attempts” and be locked out for such a duration. I finally held down crown and side buttons to reset and removed it from my phone.

as I said, I was at home under my personal Wi-Fi. I did not receive any strange phone calls before hand or nothing happened unusual before hand. The only thing that is different is we did purchase a new smart TV that we just hooked up last night. Not sure if this is related, but I thought I would mention it.

now I’m wondering if I can reconnect my Apple Watch — will be safe??

Same happened to me today. I wonder is it only Ultra 2?