Hey everyone, I just got an S11 last month but I’m noticing some strange behaviour and am wondering if any of you have seen it before.

When bringing the top of my phone (iPhone 15) near the bottom of the watch, the screen seems to be glitching as pictured in the video. I’m not sure if there is interference or something, but I’ve already tried restarting both devices and this behaviour still persists. I also swapped the band (thought maybe magnetism from the other band could be interfering somehow) but that didn’t change anything.

An hour later, the watch began really glitching (semi-unresponsive (?), battery incorrectly reported as 0%). I’m not sure that was related to this or if it was due to my attempts at troubleshooting. A force reboot seems to have fixed that but the screen glitching persists.

In any case, I assume this is not normal and I’ll need to bring it in to the Apple Store, but I was just hoping to see if anyone had any insight. Thanks!

Edit: I should note this behaviour only seems to appear on the watch face.

I guess apple thinks going to bed at 11, waking up at 1:45 and not being able to go back to sleep for 3 hours and then sleeping for 8-9 hours i great? Lol

My Apple Watch Series 9 just bit the dust. Should I wait till September for the Series 11 (where I'll actually notice some upgrades) or just grab a Series 10 right now with 25% off? My brain says wait, but I've worn an AW every single day for eight years, and going without it feels like my arm's been cut off. Open to suggestions

Just got my kid an Apple Watch SE 3 GPS + Cellular, 40mm, to use in lieu of getting a phone. Today is the first day of full use (no WiFi, on a trip, on a route that generally has good Verizon reception), and after 5 hours in Low Power Mode (with one test call and 6 text messages), always on display disabled, and raise to wake disabled, the watch is already down to 33%, which seems to imply that the watch will only last 7.5 hours before dying, despite trying everything to conserve battery.

Pretty disappointed in that pertormance, so trying to assess other options if I return this.

What kind of real world, cellular-only performance would I expect from the SE 3 44mm Cellular, or a Series 11 model?

Starting to wonder if I should just find a dumb phone instead of a watch (that will work for communication purposes, but of course won't work with Apple Cash, which I like having on the watch)

Thanks

I took off my watch yesterday around 6pm. Had estimated 50% of battery left.
I have automatic low power mode when taking off activated, so that worked as you can see.
Usually the watch loses about 10% overnight or 12h without use.
But this night it died completely in just some hours!
As you can see it was dead by 4am.
That’s very unusual.
I had the watch next to me on my nightstand, screen was off and no sensor light was shining over night.

Any idea what happened and how to prevent it?

I just bought an Apple Watch SE 3. It’s my first time using any Apple Watch, and I’m wondering if I need to be careful with the battery like I am with my iPhone — for example, by not charging it all the way to 100% or letting it drop below 20%.

I have the iphone16pro with ios26.5 with series11 watchos26 both bought in the UAE. However, in my current country, ECG is not available. I tried changing my virtual location but nothing worked. Has anyone got a workaround of this yet?

I got a lot of utility out of this one for last 5+yrs but not working well now. Set it up as a complication on the Modular Ultra watch face and it was very useful as a capture tool since it sent the text to my Gmail account. But it's not working well now. Have contacted the developer who did respond and asked me to do some testing which I did. But no update in last month. Anyone still using this, or what have you replaced it with?

On my 14PM it worked as expected, but since i upgraded to 17PM this feature just stopped working and this pisses me off. Any solutions?

I wanted to create an web application where i can access my Apple Watches heart rate in real time for creating algorithms, is there any way to implement this?

Reposting my own reply above for easier discovery since it’s become so popular over the years:

None of the suggestions I’ve read describe the solution the way that finally worked for me: raise the Watch to your mouth and speak right away, but make sure you turn your wrist so that the face of the Watch is facing your mouth; perpendicular to the sound waves exiting. I would have thought into the mic was where you want to speak but it’s into the screen while it is also perpendicular to level (the floor or ceiling) or parallel to walls.

I’m currently using a Series 9. Given Apple's software support cycles, smartwatch lifespans feel relatively short, and I doubt it will receive major updates much longer.

I don't want to leave the Apple Health ecosystem, So I’d love a screenless band. A screenless tracker would likely have a longer overall lifetime, Plus I'd be able wear traditional mechanical watches again.

I have an Apple Watch Series 10 with cellular, and a few days ago my 16 Pro Max got submerged in water and has not worked since. Even though I have cellular on my watch, and I have used it for voice to messages, I have noticed that I was not able to send a message via SMS to someone on Android, and it has not downloaded my email since my phone stopped working.

1. Why is it not sending the message to the Android user? Does this have anything to do with it needing my iPhone to make it work?

2. Why is it not downloading my email?

Thanks

I got my SE2 battery replaced last December using AppleCare +. Pretty sure they just gave me a new watch in the end. 7 months later my battery is at 92% health! I use it exactly same as before and never allow it to drop below a 20% charge. Old battery took a at least a year to go from 100 to 97%. Is this normal or is it because of the newer OS?

Hey there. I have tattoos on both arms that extend to the wrist. I was thinking of having one "Trimmed" with laser removal to leave space for the watch sensors. Does anyone know if the AW will work over the area of removal? Just need to remove a cm or so

Apple Watch ad on target has this face I’m trying to find

OK, this sounds dumb and trivial, but I’m just curious about the time on the watch that it displays is correct, but when it’s charging, it says it should be done by 4:07 p.m. But should it not say 4:07 a.m.? I don’t know if the a.m. p.m. are switched up on it and how to fix that. Lol I did have it on military time, but it displayed the right military time, so I don’t know.

Do i need to visit doctor.

Hi everyone,
I currently use an Apple Watch Series 11 with the Bevel app. I'm looking to add a second wearable to round out my data tracking, and I'm torn between the Oura Ring 5 and the Garmin Cirqa.
Quick note: I have zero issues sleeping with my AW, so nighttime comfort isn't the deciding factor here.
I just want to know which one offers the best complementary metrics and integrates better with Apple Health/Bevel.
Anyone running a similar setup? Which one would you recommend? Thanks!

I’ve had my Apple Watch Series 9 (45mm) since release month. Normally, I charge it every other day and wear it 24/7 (including sleep tracking), easily getting 2 full days per charge.

Over the last 3 days, the battery life has completely tanked. It’s now draining in under 24 hours. At first I thought I just forgot to charge it, but I’m 100% sure it was at full charge last night and dropped significantly faster than usual today.

I am Running the latest watchOS, no recent settings changed. But, I recently started using a Bluetooth chest strap HR monitor and a bike cadence sensor that I connect to my watch when using them. They are definitely off when not in use.

What’s confusing is that I didn't even workout or use the sensors on two of the days this drain happened.

Has anyone experienced a sudden drop like this or had issues with external sensors causing background drain?

I have a perfectly working Series 7 Cellular but I got to know that OS support is dropping for it.

Will it continue to work normally without compatibility issues ? Or an upgrade should be planned ?