Evidently many extra people than common are experiencing birthing pains with Apple’s fall 2023 product lineup, leaving the corporate scrambling to work on software program updates to resolve points.
First, we heard of customers experiencing overheating issues with a few of the new iPhone 15 Professional fashions, little doubt pushed by their extra highly effective A17 Professional chip. Whereas not less than one analyst blamed this on “thermal compromises” within the design, Apple was in a position to tackle it in software program, each in an iOS 17.0.3 replace and by recommending fixes to third-party builders for apps like Instagram that have been triggering no matter it was inflicting Apple’s flagship iPhones to warmth up excessively.
Sadly, that doesn’t appear to have been the top of issues for iPhone 15 customers, with some people reporting “display screen burn-in” — a difficulty that’s extra doubtless picture persistence moderately than everlasting burn-in that Apple claims might be mounted in iOS 17.1, slated for launch subsequent week.
Now, it appears to be like like homeowners of the brand new Apple Watch Collection 9 and Apple Watch Extremely 2 are having their very own share of points. Along with issues with Climate Issues — a watchOS 10 concern that appears to be extra incessantly occurring on the brand new fashions — customers on the MacRumors Boards, Reddit, and Apple Discussions have been reporting an odd flickering from their Apple wearables at any time when they elevate their wrists.
Fortunately, just like the iPhone 15 points, this doesn’t look like a {hardware} drawback — or not less than Apple doesn’t suppose so. In an inner service memo obtained by MacRumors, Apple acknowledges the problem and tells its Approved Service Suppliers (AASPs) to not restore or substitute watches affected by this concern.
As a substitute, Apple is telling suppliers to advise clients to “hold their Apple Watch software program updated.” Whereas the flickering drawback persists in watchOS 10.0.2, the newest model that’s publicly out there as of this writing, it’s attainable that Apple might have already addressed this in watchOS 10.1, which ought to arrive subsequent week alongside iOS 17.1.
Notably, Apple doesn’t say which Apple Watch fashions are affected. Nevertheless, all of the stories we’ve seen are from customers of the brand new 2023 fashions — the Apple Watch Collection 9 and Apple Watch Extremely 2 — suggesting that it could be associated to the brand new S9 chip or brighter display screen know-how that Apple has added to this 12 months’s fashions.
The issue additionally seems to be particular to the Apple Watch All the time On show, so for those who’re encountering this and discover it annoying, you may all the time head into the Settings app in your Apple Watch and switch that off underneath Show & Brightness.
The memo additionally provides that Apple is investigating a difficulty the place the Exercise rings on the Apple Watch might “briefly flip pink,” an issue that’s been reported by some Apple Watch Extremely 2 customers. It’s unclear if that is in any method associated to the display screen flickering concern, nevertheless it’s one thing else that can doubtless be resolved in a future watchOS replace.