Can I accidentally make a phone call from my watch while I'm sleeping?

I've had my Watch for about 3 mos. now and I've not had any issues with sleeping with the watch on, as I do use the sleep tracker function. This morning at 1:50 AM, I received a frantic call from my mother saying that she had a missed call and a voice message from my number. The VM is about 5 minutes long and she can hear people talking, thought it was me... (Turns out my daughter and her friend were up at that time.) It wasn't me as I was sound asleep at the time. I looked at my phone's recent call activity and sure enough, there was an outgoing call to my mother's phone at 1:42 AM, lasting roughly 5 minutes. My question is, I sleep with my Watch on... Could I have pressed a button or combo of buttons while sleeping, causing my Watch to accidentally dial her number? Her phone number was the last one I had called before going to bed last night... Is there like a redial function on the Watch? I've been wearing my Watch for the past 3 mos. to bed and have never had this happen before. I tried this morning to make the Watch redial my mother's number by pressing the buttons in various ways and numerous times, but I can't get it to redial the last number on my phone. I want to make sure I know what happened here because I would hate to make an involuntary habit of dialing my friends and family at all hours of the night! Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated!

Apple Watch, iOS 10.3.1

Posted on Apr 27, 2017 6:41 AM

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Apr 27, 2017 6:55 AM in response to SLargent

Hi


It is certainly possible that the call was placed due to accidental interaction with your Apple Watch.


You may wish to consider locking the screen when sleeping.


Under the latest version of watchOS, with Wrist Detection turned on, it is not possible to manually lock Apple Watch such that the passcode needs to be entered to unlock it again. Your watch will instead lock automatically upon being removed from your wrist.


On Series 2 models, in Control Centre, Water Lock can instead be turned on by tapping on the water droplet button. This locks the screen to prevent accidental interactions with the screen. The feature is intended to be used during exposure to water, but it can also be used at other times. Turn the Digital Crown to turn off Water Lock.


More information:

https://help.apple.com/watch/#/apd748b87e2a

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