Ummmm.... a simple "how's the weather" should work right?.. considering it's not a deep hidden bug...
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Apple Watch Bug Causing Restarts When Asking Siri About the Weather
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Ummmm.... a simple "how's the weather" should work right?.. considering it's not a deep hidden bug...
Except it is a rather deeply hidden bug, as said question would only cause the crash on one day out of the year. Any other day, no bug.
It's a feature. Apple doesn't want to bring your mood down by giving you a bad weather report. Amazing!
Remember Apple Maps when it directed cars over an active airport taxiway
Apple Maps flaw results in drivers crossing airport runway - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24246646
AW Series 3 LTE here and iPhone X. iOS 11.1 and WatchOS 4.1 in English. Asked Siri in French, and it works as expected.
Very queer. Must be something related to the word "weather" itself.
Very queer. Must be something related to the word "weather" itself.
No issue here in Europe. Works pretty well. Maybe caused by Winter Time change ;-)
W2 watchOS 4.1
W2 watchOS 4.1
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I can confirm that the softboot that took place yesterday with my Series 3 with WatchOS 4.1 is no longer causing issues today now that we're back to Eastern Standard Time.
That's because there's not really any such thing as British Summer Time. The rain just gets a bit warmer, that's all.
For a few seconds there my old Android user self thought you were talking about out connecting Airpods to an aged Samsung Galaxy S3 Android device
(best one that Samsung pulled out in my most humble of opinions).Then I put 2 and 2 together...
Hey, it is 6:15 in the AM here!
My Apple Watch series 3 LTE using WatchOS 4.1 was consistently having this issue the past 2 days. After midnight Sunday morning (Nov 5th) it started working as expected. I believe the change from daylight savings time was the issue. I still want Apple to address this issue.
Is Siri is showing a little independence through disobedience? Perhaps, Siri's "fingers" on the back of your watch will one-day Tase your glib comments and stupid questions too.
An application bug that causes an operating system crash isn't minor. What this demonstrates is that it is possible to use Siri to crash the system. That's actually a serious security flaw that may be exploitable because it demonstrates that there is a problem with application sandboxing. Furthermore, given the close relationship between Apple's various operating systems, it may be a flaw that's exploitable elsewhere.
So, while you may think people are overreacting and that having your watch crash if you say the wrong thing at the wrong time is fine, hopefully Apple are taking it rather more seriously because you can be sure that there are people "out there" that are already looking into what happened and how it could potentially be exploited.
All fixed... I’m in eastern standard time, tried it last night and it restarted, this morning worked fine...
Not loosing any sleep over this one..
I have a series 1 Apple Watch
Not loosing any sleep over this one..
I have a series 1 Apple Watch
As annoying as it was, something to bear in mind here is that this wasn't a generic Siri issue as my iPhone was able to handle the request just fine yesterday, whereas the Watch didn't.
In addition, given everything Siri does, it has a deeper integration with the OS - and, last I checked, didn't run in the same Sandbox context that Apple request 'normal' applications to run in.
Yes, this was annoying, but it's equally going to be related to something stupid as a negative one overflowing into an unsigned int causing a bad bit of memory somewhere, just because some idiot didn't check for the Daylight Saving shift somewhere. Either that or the array that brings weather back for the next 24 hours didn't expect to have two 1AMs - something daft like that.
It's annoying, bugs happen and I can pretty much guarantee this'll be fixed by Apple, even though it's over for the next 6 months - or even year (depending on if it effects both the spring and fall changes, or juts the fall ones).
Panicking that this is a serious compromise is, to be honest, sounding a little chicken-littleish.
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Must be someone in Finland checking the weather. The phone realizes how bad it is and commits a suicide. :/