Please don't act like you have never been pranked, or trolled by a friend. Best friends do that, colleagues don't.
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Please don't act like you have never been pranked, or trolled by a friend. Best friends do that, colleagues don't.
Exactly. The tech sites published it to show how smart they were and to compete with all the other jerk tech sites.
And then all the nimrods decided to be cute and disable all their "friends'" devices. This just demonstrates that there is no limit to the number of jerks and idiots who have access to a computer.
If the OP doesn't get rid of this particular "friend" he deserves what he gets in the future from him.
I have the same question. It's pretty unethical of MacRumors (and other sites) to do this, IMO.
No need to take it this far. Seriously, best friends prank each other usually in the worst way you can think of and it's always okay.
His friend probably meant no harm for him, and never even imagined his watch would turn unusable with this message. He just wanted to have some fun seeing his friend trying to fix his iPhone.
Best friends always do bad stuff together, that's the world. You get used to it. Unfortunately Apple screwed up bad this time and they need to issue an immediate update.
Well the friends are best friends and in terms of pranks it's pretty tame. Sadly I am still sitting with a bust Apple watch stuck restarting, to be honest none of the media outlets reported about the watches being affected.
No idea how to fix it. Someone previously asked is it iMessage only, basically it is anything that goes through notification centre, the iPhone can't handle the foreign text and shuts itself down.
No idea how to fix it. Someone previously asked is it iMessage only, basically it is anything that goes through notification centre, the iPhone can't handle the foreign text and shuts itself down.
I still didn't receive my watch, so wanted to ask, is it possible to disable text message and iMessage notifications from being sent to the Watch? If yes, that's what you must do on your replacement watch.
I think you need to get your friend to send you a normal message again, but leave your phone alone, switch on your watch and hopefully this will override the funky message he previously sent, try it and report back.
it has to be from the same person
it has to be from the same person
Yeah im in the same boat.
Confirmed it can occur through things such as twitter, whatsapp messages.
Pretty much anything that can show you a notification on the lock screen or as a banner.
If you want to avoid it for now until the update the software, turn off notifications completely
We troll each other all the time. If his message did crash my phone or even my watch, maybe I'll ask that moron if he wants to grab a shandy, I won't even be mad. Of course, he's paying for it.
ahh, maybe this wasn't a good idea (tbh, i probably would have done the same) was going to say to try and restore from your phone app, that may have been the best bet, but thats not possible now.
Mine did this also. Mine did it after I updated to 1.0.1
Would also reset its self. Sometimes it would stop, but most often it wouldn't.
I went to the Genius Bar. Got a new Watch a few days later. That one works awesome!
Yeah i know, it was Apple support that suggested it unfortunately!
Im waiting for my watch battery to die now to see what happens then.
If no luck ill chase them in a few hours via support seen as im on a night shift
What total nonsense. Yeah, I've been pranked. Perhaps my friends know where to draw the line. Bricking an expensive device is over the top. That's not friendship, it's not a "prank", it's vandalism.
Don't hand me "they didn't know the extent of the harm" crap either. That only means they are ignorant as well as inconsiderate.
"Hey, my buddy slipped a virus on my iMac when I wasn't looking. Now I have to completely wipe my system, but not before it sent all my info to an unknown location in Romania."
Oh, hahahah, what a prankster! I am bent over with paradigms of laughter.
Your pals prank is obviously much more incriminating that a simple restart, he knew the damage it would cause.
See the quotes? I was making a sarcastic extreme example of the "innocent joke" excuse.
If someone does something like what happened to you, they should know better. They just can't hide behind "sorry, didn't realize".
I sympathize with your difficulties getting your watch to work, but I think your friend owes you a very expensive dinner, or something similar.
Yes he probably did not know the extent of the harm, because none of the huge tech websites reported any issues with the Apple Watch. I wonder why they said nothing about it, specially that it sold millions already and someone must have reported similar issues.
His friend is a bad troll, we know it but If I was him (and no, when I troll I never harm people), I would just think I am messing around with a friend by "rebooting" his phone, not by bricking his watch.
I remember a few years ago when I had a Nokia with a bluetooth, and there was an app that allowed you to reboot your friend device if they accept the bluetooth connection. I had fun trolling them with it. That's because I was sure it would cause no harm but just a simple reboot.
This should tech Apple a lesson though, which is to include a lightning cable port in future and offer iTunes support so people can restore their Apple Watch the same way they do with their iPhones, or else Apple will be hit with many replacement requests for the Watch if such a bug happens again.