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My S0 SS never rebooted by itself, and I have owned it since launch day till January of 2017. My new S2 SS just rebooted once this past weekend, for the first time in its life. It's running wOS 3.1.3, and I wasn't doing anything specific with it at all, just trying to raise my wrist to check time, it didn't respond at all. I tapped the display, still nothing. Then when I was wondering what's going on, the Apple logo appeared and it was restarting. After a few minutes, it started up fine.
 
I'm a new Apple Watch owner (< 1 week) and I've noticed that my watch crashes and randomly reboots on average once per day. Until now it has happened randomly when using stock apps or responding to a notification or browsing fitness data. I don't have many third party apps installed. Today it happened the first time during a workout but I had hit the dock button during my working to check on my total daily calories during a short break while the workout was still active. This is truly a bad place for a crash to occur because it means I had to delay my workout until the watch came back to life and it takes a while to reboot.

Is one crash/reboot daily about average for this device, or is mine crashing more than usual?



My 38 mm Series 2 just rebooted a few minutes ago when I was trying to check a notification. I've had it for 2 weeks and this is the 2nd time it has done this. I was planning to take it to Apple today to see what the problem is.
 
s0 42mm SS - owned it brand new since Oct 2016 and it's done it a few times. not lately though - not sure why. there's a new watch OS that was released today.
 
I’ve noticed a few reboots ever since updating to the latest beta version ... as expected
 
My S2SS has done it once. I hit the digital crown to go back to the watch face and boom. To make it worse, I was trying to make the case for my girlfriend switching from her Fitbit Blaze to an Apple Watch. Fail.
 
Series 2 SS with 3.2.3 installed. I've had random reboots since I bought it in February of this year. I started a bug report with Apple. They had me install a profile to gather information and send to them. I'd like to say 3.2.3 fixed the issues but it didn't. It's been happening more often lately. Like when I try to launch Weather Underground from the watch face, or even when I raise to look at the time.

It' no more than once a day I think and it can go days in between reboots. I do not make a habit of manually restarting the watch and I wear it pretty much every day from the time I wake up to bed.

[Edited to correct the OS version installed. I'm on 3.2.3, not 3.1.3 as originally stated. That was the version I had when reported to Apple initially]
 
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Series 2 SS with 3.1.3 installed. I've had random reboots since I bought it in February of this year. I started a bug report with Apple. They had me install a profile to gather information and send to them. I'd like to say 3.1.3 fixed the issues but it didn't. It's been happening more often lately. Like when I try to launch Weather Underground from the watch face, or even when I raise to look at the time.

It' no more than once a day I think and it can go days in between reboots. I do not make a habit of manually restarting the watch and I wear it pretty much every day from the time I wake up to bed.

Take it back champ. Doesn't sound normal.

Or, uninstall all 3rd party apps and see if that helps.
 
Take it back champ. Doesn't sound normal.

Or, uninstall all 3rd party apps and see if that helps.

I'm keeping my eyes on it. I troubleshoot stuff in my profession so I'm familiar with the process. I have 37 3rd party apps installed. I just looked at the My Watch app on my phone and see how some apps show "Installing..." from apps that were updated. I wonder now, if there is a relation. One of the apps was updated 8/6 and should be reinstalled already.
 
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I'm keeping my eyes on it. I troubleshoot stuff in my profession so I'm familiar with the process. I have 37 3rd party apps installed. I just looked at the My Watch app on my phone and see how some apps show "Installing..." from apps that were updated. I wonder now, if there is a relation. One of the apps was updated 8/6 and should be reinstalled already.

Nice. Good luck with it champ. Hope you get it sorted soon.
 
Mine reboots about every two days. it was replaced for this very issue but it ensures

Went through troubleshooting with Apple Care, even did the troubleshooting profile, no changes. I was finally told to look for watch os 4 by the senior advisor as he said it was a known issue.

Unpair and repair, setup as new, and no third party apps, it crashed and restarted when checking the time.

Other than waiting for watch os 4, I can't think of anything I haven't tried. Suggestions, as always, are appreciated.

Series 2 Nike + 42mm v3.2.3
iPhone 7 Plus v10.3.3
 
One of the things that's seemed to help mine out is looking at the watch app and seeing if any apps are stuck at "installing". If they are, reboot the watch. I've only had one unexpected reboot since. Which is pretty good.
 
Mine reboots about every two days. it was replaced for this very issue but it ensures

Went through troubleshooting with Apple Care, even did the troubleshooting profile, no changes. I was finally told to look for watch os 4 by the senior advisor as he said it was a known issue.

Unpair and repair, setup as new, and no third party apps, it crashed and restarted when checking the time.

Other than waiting for watch os 4, I can't think of anything I haven't tried. Suggestions, as always, are appreciated.

Series 2 Nike + 42mm v3.2.3
iPhone 7 Plus v10.3.3

Delete all apps and re-install one by one. In a year I can't remember my AW2 rebooting itself.
 
Delete all apps and re-install one by one. In a year I can't remember my AW2 rebooting itself.

I'm afraid I have unpaired/re-paired, setup as new with no third-party or downloadable apps whatsoever, and it still restarted on its own (white  logo). The replacement Watch does the same thing, with or without apps.

My iPhone was replaced for an unrelated issue, it's had no effect. At-best, I've gone maybe five (5) days without a restart, then bam.

Curious, though, if it's the phone that it is paired with has any correlation? I'm out of ideas. After an exhaustive troubleshooting routine with Apple Care (Senior and Executive Level), I was told it was something "known about" and to wait until the next OS update (4, presumably). 7 months later, what's another week, right?

In the meantime, I've tried just about everything to mitigate the random reboot problem but I've failed at every turn.
 
I'm afraid I have unpaired/re-paired, setup as new with no third-party or downloadable apps whatsoever, and it still restarted on its own (white  logo). The replacement Watch does the same thing, with or without apps.

My iPhone was replaced for an unrelated issue, it's had no effect. At-best, I've gone maybe five (5) days without a restart, then bam.

Curious, though, if it's the phone that it is paired with has any correlation? I'm out of ideas. After an exhaustive troubleshooting routine with Apple Care (Senior and Executive Level), I was told it was something "known about" and to wait until the next OS update (4, presumably). 7 months later, what's another week, right?

In the meantime, I've tried just about everything to mitigate the random reboot problem but I've failed at every turn.

That is strange. Hope that watch os4 fixes it. But the next question, what if it doesn't?
 
I'm afraid I have unpaired/re-paired, setup as new with no third-party or downloadable apps whatsoever, and it still restarted on its own (white  logo). The replacement Watch does the same thing, with or without apps.

My iPhone was replaced for an unrelated issue, it's had no effect. At-best, I've gone maybe five (5) days without a restart, then bam.

Curious, though, if it's the phone that it is paired with has any correlation? I'm out of ideas. After an exhaustive troubleshooting routine with Apple Care (Senior and Executive Level), I was told it was something "known about" and to wait until the next OS update (4, presumably). 7 months later, what's another week, right?

In the meantime, I've tried just about everything to mitigate the random reboot problem but I've failed at every turn.

In my case, I was lucky to mitigate the random reboot saga. I have the 42mm AW2. Very babied and looked after. Every time I use Siri on the watch and say: ''hey Siri, hows the weather today'' Siri lags and then bam AW reboots. This happens EVERYTIME. I even tested other sentence with Siri some work and some don't. It seems a lot here have the reboot issue and I am not the odd one out. The genius at the apple store on Regent Street in London was not very compassionate for someone that spend so much money saved on a watch that acts up. The watch needs to be sent in for inspection at their depot. For 10 days that is. Made a fit and put my foot down, they wouldn't replace/swap it. She did show me 0 inventory in stores. JuanGuapo, I noticed yours got swapped and you still have the same issue. Its clearly I think a hardware problem something is not right. Will come back for update once watch new or same in hand.
 
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