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Apple Watch Bug Causing Restarts When Asking Siri About the Weather
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Amazing Iceman
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Not happening to my Apple Watch 3 LTE.
I wonder if there’s another Weather app installed that’s interfering and causing the restart, or something related with Location Services.
I wonder if there’s another Weather app installed that’s interfering and causing the restart, or something related with Location Services.
MacManiac1
macrumors regular
Same here. All ok today.
Remember a few years ago when Apple had problems with the alarm clock not working around the time change.
It is a bit amazing since they had problems with the time change before that they would have an issue with something like the weather that is looking ahead a number of hours. Something in the code doesn’t like skipping an hour or have an hour repeat itself.
OriginalAppleGuy
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IT could be an iOS issue. It could be a Siri on the watch only issue. It could be an underlying BSD issue. It could be........
I never would have known about this issue had I not read about it. For those who do application testing, they know no matter how well you test given the best plans and best intentions, you only catch 30% of the bugs. That's it. Beta testing may help improve that a bit, but it's still a small number.
For those complaining about how the issue caused the watch to completely reboot, it didn't. A post earlier advised what kind of action was taking place. Go find it and read to understand.
For those concerned about the security aspects of this "bug", your imagination is going quite wild. Unless you establish your OS security acumen and how you have personally reviewed the source code to reveal a potential security threat, stop with the BS. iOS is still the best and most secure OS for small devices out there.
I never would have known about this issue had I not read about it. For those who do application testing, they know no matter how well you test given the best plans and best intentions, you only catch 30% of the bugs. That's it. Beta testing may help improve that a bit, but it's still a small number.
For those complaining about how the issue caused the watch to completely reboot, it didn't. A post earlier advised what kind of action was taking place. Go find it and read to understand.
For those concerned about the security aspects of this "bug", your imagination is going quite wild. Unless you establish your OS security acumen and how you have personally reviewed the source code to reveal a potential security threat, stop with the BS. iOS is still the best and most secure OS for small devices out there.
gnasher729
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Alarm clock is interesting. If I set my alarm to wake me up at 7am, then I want it to run at 7am, no matter what DST changes. On the other hand, I know people who needed an alarm "exactly 24 hours from now", and that alarm shouldn't change to "25 hours from now" or "23 hours from now" just because of DST (think of a chemical experiment where something is mixed and needs to be checked exactly 24 hours later).
Now this problem here is different. There is no excuse for crashing because of DST. I remember a few years ago some game console crashed on February 29th, I think. The crashing code was shown, and within ten lines of code the programmer had written two different ways to figure out whether a year was a leap year, and one way gave the wrong result. So within ten lines of code the software was (a) convinced that Feb 29th was a correct date and (b) convinced that Feb 29th was _not_ a correct date, and then got itself utterly confused.
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With the explanation given (something getting confused with a DST change), the problem would have gone away, and come back in exactly six months or exactly twelve months, but only for one day.
I just tried asking "how's the weather" and "how's the weather today," and my new Series 3 LTE is working fine. I didn't try asking yesterday.
gnasher729
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That's the kind of bug that is hardest to find. In some years, many iOS apps will display the wrong year on some days around the end of the year. That's because if you have a calendar organised by weeks, Jan 1st can be part of the last week of the previous year.
Arran
macrumors 603
I think it’s more down to the inter-connectedness and interdependency of systems now. Many being outside your control.
ConfusedChris
macrumors 6502
SpringBoard is the main GUI on iOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpringBoard
Back in the days when jailbreaking was a thing, a lot of issues could be resolved with a "respring" (killall SpringBoard). This would reset the GUI like is happening here with the crash.
mcapanelli
macrumors regular
Its working fine now so I'll assume it was a daylight savings time glitch. I'll miss all the fun making my friends and family's watches crash though. Here's to hoping apple pulls this off again in a few months when we spring forward.
So even though in the UK we changed our clocks last weekend, and before the new Apple a watch OS update it worked fine, it now breaks the phone with the new alas version...
Apple most likely knows about this and considers the fault not worthy of testing for and fixing, they would rather you have a big then spend money fixing it. Because they still have tons of money..
Apple most likely knows about this and considers the fault not worthy of testing for and fixing, they would rather you have a big then spend money fixing it. Because they still have tons of money..
AT&T representative
macrumors member
My watch stopped showing the weather on the Watch face after upgrading to the iPhone X. The sunrise time was not displaying either. I had to set a default city in the weather app to make the temperature appear, then, I had to toggle the location services off and on from the phone in order to make the sunrise time to show. I didn’t try asking Siri when it wasn’t working but I imagine that she would have had trouble and maybe even crashed if those settings weren’t working properly and I asked her for the weather.
npmacuser5
macrumors 68020
I thought of this, reading the posts here. Funny that my new Apple Watch has that big red button on the side, too. No I did not try to crash my watch. I’ll take everyone’s word for it.
