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Comment by rockbruno | Hacker News Reader

One of the posters posted a video of the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6dazJk9AtU

It seems like the ghost touch issue, and not actual hacking.

I have the same issue. It’s clearly a bug and maybe both the funniest and most serious one I’ve ever had to deal with.

In my case I was waking up to my watch using itself. It changed contacts, added locations in maps, placed and cancelled two calls to emergency services and more. I then made the mistake of taking it off my wrist. Now the screen is locked and the watch will continue to enter wrong PINs, locking itself for more time every time. You can’t shut it down - the watch will start to type and dismiss the shutdown dialog (or call 911 again!).

I haven’t gotten around to taking it to an Apple Store and have returned to my Garmin watch.

Unpair and reset from the phone.

Or throw the device before it wastes more public resources by ghosting dialing public services.

Typing „we are in control“ would go beyond the ghost touch issue, if we believe the first reporter.

I am inclined to believe that the first reporter only thinks they saw this, not that it actually occurred (or they saw some random words appear on the keyboard that resembled this phrase).

„Popping up a keyboard“ as the user described is also not something trivially possible on the watch. That raised a red(ish) flag for me.

Anyone who worked with users would tell you stories about the stories the users tell to support about how they "didn't do anything at all, didn't touch it and now everything is gone! it's your fault!"

By the way, yesterday my Apple Watch 2 popped up a keyboard and wrote "pflenker is leichtgläubigertyp!" can you believe it?!

Congrats you were selected voor LLM Siri testing! There may still be some issues…

I think it's way more likely that whoever made that post is trolling, or suffered from some kind of schizophrenic delusion

(or maybe some really really unlucky markov chain)

I think you’re right, with this low N it can always be an attention grab.

I thought the same when I saw the video. I had the same problem with an Android phone, but the ghost touch was located in one zone of the screen because it was damaged. This looks like more like a software bug.

I will stay with my Garmin watch just until touchscreens become good enough to user under water.

This is a very frustrating issue, as it can make it difficult to use the watch...

It looks like watchOS hacked itself.

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