Today my Apple Watched told me it was 10:49 when I was waiting for a train to depart. Because of that timestamp I thought the train was delayed, but when I checked my iPhone, the iPhone showed 10:45. This was also the time on the clock at the railway station…
I have had the same problem earlier this week (the watch being a few minutes ahead of the actual time), but wasn’t sure back then about what I saw. However, since it happened again I think this is a (serious!) bug. I tried to make a screenshot of the time on both my iPhone and my Apple Watch, but when I tried to do that the time on my Apple Watch jumped back to 10:45…
I’ve definitely seen this. It seems to happen when the watch face is on the “always on” display before you focus on the face for a few seconds or physically interact with the watch. I have an ultra that does this.
Was it showing 10:09? For the last couple major watchOS releases, this is what the watch always shows when switching watch faces or sometimes when waking up from standby, and it’s quite irritating that they are not able to fix this.
This type of issue doesn’t appear to be new as I searched the ole World Wide Web and there were posts from 2023 stating the same thing especially after iOS updates. The only cure was unpairing and re-pairing the watch.
If you swing your arms too vigorously, the watch lives in its own relative time track, the faster you move your arms the faster the time. Ermmm, no the slower time should go according the einstein……
Well, I have been wearing an Apple Watch every day since the first one was released. I have never experienced the Apple Watch showing the wrong time. This is not me doubting that there is an issue that may occur somewhere somehow! But it has not happened to me once in more than 10 years. That may or may not be taken into consideration when judging if showing the time is working reliably or not.
That’s why I was not sure that it really happened when I noticed it the first time (”this can’t be true?”) and unpleasantly surprised the second time (”so this is a bug after all?”).
I’ve seen this exactly today for the first time, the time was 10-20 minutes ahead. After panicking that I was running late to a meeting, the watch face corrected itself, perhaps it took 5 seconds or so.
I’ve never seen this behaviour --like I’ve seen some analog faces being stuck in the past and quickly catch up, but going into the future? Never.
