Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[STEMO]

My wife returned to work this week and the apple watch I got her for Christmas appears to be picking up bits of messages from other people's phones. I know it connects by Bluetooth but surely this shouldn't happen.

[TheBoy]

Doubt it.

Ring (or online chat) Apple. They are actually better than you'd expect, unlike most. Failing that, its going into a crApple store, but you need appointment for that.

[STEMO]

Doubt it.

Ring (or online chat) Apple. They are actually better than you'd expect, unlike most. Failing that, its going into a crApple store, but you need appointment for that.

It's weird. She got a bit of a message that she really shouldn't have seen, quickly looked away as she was in a meeting, and when she looked later it had gone. She tends to just leave her phone in her handbag when at work, but plenty dont.
When she rings me on hands free from the car, I'm getting 'clicks' like something from a 1970's spy film. 

[STEMO]

Doubt it.

Ring (or online chat) Apple. They are actually better than you'd expect, unlike most. Failing that, its going into a crApple store, but you need appointment for that.

Wow! Thanks, Jaime. Went online and requested a call back......one minute!

Wifey is talking to a nice lady from the US now.

[STEMO]

Right.....apparently, when there are a lot of Bluetooth enabled devices about the place, this sometimes happens, but the nice lady couldn't say why. It should , be impossible, as the watch should only be paired to her phone.
Another strange aspect is that the message was white text on a completely black background, not like a normal text or email.

Advice was to unpair and pair again. 

[STEMO]

And, slightly unsettling, young girl said "I've checked all the settings on your watch and they appear to be fine".

[Mr Skrunts]

Doubt it.

Ring (or online chat) Apple. They are actually better than you'd expect, unlike most. Failing that, its going into a crApple store, but you need appointment for that.

. . . . . . . Do they have a lot of returns then 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Those watches are rubbish, charge lasts a day or so and they actually provide little if any functionality for the price of what would be bloody good proper watch......and in three years time, once its been slugged by a few software updates, it will be scrap.

There also supposed to be very easy to hack from other phones

[Kevin Wood]

Indeed. I had a problem with my watch once.

Then I wound it up.

[2boxerdogs]

Can't be doing with fancy stuff like that, bought myself an automatic Longines a few years back simple & perfect .

[Gaffers]

There also supposed to be very easy to hack from other phones

Not had a chance to test that yet but I have heard the same.  It's something to do with making the different modules on the watch more accessible for independent developers but which also left gaping holes which could be exploited.

[Kevin Wood]

It's the same for every new product line including most IOT devices these days. Get it out the door first and foremost and then, when it's exposed as being vulnerable "Oh, we need to secure it? That wasn't in the spec".

[STEMO]

Those watches are rubbish, charge lasts a day or so and they actually provide little if any functionality for the price of what would be bloody good proper watch......and in three years time, once its been slugged by a few software updates, it will be scrap.

There also supposed to be very easy to hack from other phones

I should imagine most devices are quite easy to hack with Bluetooth switched on. Shopping centres can send all types of crap to your phone.

[Gaffers]

Bluetooth 4 (latest generation) is generally ok, certainly much better than the versions present on older devices which were as good as swiss cheese.  Devices which you have not ranted permission for should not be able to send you stuff, certainly not without breaking the Misuse of IT Act, so I wonder if it's really via bluetooth that they are spamming you via.  More likely via email/wifi.

[TheBoy]

Doubt it.

Ring (or online chat) Apple. They are actually better than you'd expect, unlike most. Failing that, its going into a crApple store, but you need appointment for that.

. . . . . . . Do they have a lot of returns then 

You have to understand Apple sell products aimed at, how can we put it, more artistic than logical folks. Hence, you'll see people in the shop basically taking (free) appointments to learn how to do something...   ...like reboot it.