Apple Watch Ultra 2 - locked out

[-BigMac-]

Um.
Woke up to this. What??

1) I havent touched my watch
2) how on earth do you lock it to 6hrs??
3) I was using it only 10 hours or so ago

 

[Apple_Robert]

Were you wearing your watch in bed? If so, is it possible that the screen came on without you knowing and some how triggered the passcode screen to unlock, and multiple attempts locked the watch?

 

[-BigMac-]

Were you wearing your watch in bed? If so, is it possible that the screen came on without you knowing and some how triggered the passcode screen to unlock, and multiple attempts locked the watch?

No I didn’t wear it, had it placed on my desk :/ Went to put it on, and saw that

 

[Apple_Robert]

No I didn’t wear it, had it placed on my desk :/ Went to put it on, and saw that

Is there anyone else in the house besides you? If so, is it possible someone was messing with the watch without you knowing? Is the watch running beta? If the answer to these questions is no, I have no clue what caused it to lock for so long.

 

[-BigMac-]

Is there anyone else in the house besides you? If so, is it possible someone was messing with the watch without you knowing? Is the watch running beta? If the answer to these questions is no, I have no clue what caused it to lock for so long.

There is noone else around to play with it and I’m running 10.1.1 :/

 

[Jackbequickly]

Anyone else in your residence?

 

[-BigMac-]

Anyone else in your residence?

I was alone all night, noone home.

is it even physically possible - with earliest timings - to lock your phone out for 6 hours under 10 hour timeframe?

Isn’t the lockout period tiered?

 

[Howard2k]

Yes, it's tiered. 6 hours is totally possible.

Were you wearing the watch?

 

[iStorm]

I was alone all night, noone home.

is it even physically possible - with earliest timings - to lock your phone out for 6 hours under 10 hour timeframe?

Isn’t the lockout period tiered?

Yes, it's possible. I believe the tier is 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours, 8 hours. So it would take about 4.5 hours to lock it out for 8 hours. (2 hours must have already passed before you noticed it.)

Either it's a bug or something capacitive touched the screen. Could have been something electrical nearby that was constantly triggering the screen, like a wire or even static electricity.

 

[Tdude96]

Yes, it's possible. I believe the tier is 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours, 8 hours. So it would take about 4.5 hours to lock it out for 8 hours. (2 hours must have already passed before you noticed it.)

Either it's a bug or something capacitive touched the screen. Could have been something electrical nearby that was constantly triggering the screen, like a wire or even static electricity.

That timing (4.5 hrs) does make it seem more likely that it'd be something on the screen or nearby causing the screen to register touches without being touched. My first thought since no people were around was that the culprit might be a cat, rodent or some other pet interacting with the screen. But that seems less likely if it requires 6 attempts over the course of 4.5+ hours to hit the 8 hour lockout. At least with my culprit cat, the watch will get played with if I leave it sitting around, but only for awhile and then it gets boring and won't be touched again.

 

[-BigMac-]

That timing (4.5 hrs) does make it seem more likely that it'd be something on the screen or nearby causing the screen to register touches without being touched. My first thought since no people were around was that the culprit might be a cat, rodent or some other pet interacting with the screen. But that seems less likely if it requires 6 attempts over the course of 4.5+ hours to hit the 8 hour lockout. At least with my culprit cat, the watch will get played with if I leave it sitting around, but only for awhile and then it gets boring and won't be touched again.

Fair enough, unfortunately I dont have any pets at all, so either it was a small bug who was timing its visit to my watch (are they even the correct temperature to be able to come across as a human finger?), or a software bug of some kind?

Just never had it happen with any apple device before - pretty odd

 

[arkitect]

Fair enough, unfortunately I dont have any pets at all, so either it was a small bug who was timing its visit to my watch (are they even the correct temperature to be able to come across as a human finger?), or a software bug of some kind?

Just never had it happen with any apple device before - pretty odd

Did it resolve itself or are you still locked out?

 

[-BigMac-]

Did it resolve itself or are you still locked out?

It timed out and I unlocked it with the code. The issue hasnt repeated since

 

[arkitect]

It timed out and I unlocked it with the code. The issue hasnt repeated since

Good to hear.
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