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Can’t change anything - swipe doesn’t respond

I just got my new Watch 6. It worked for a bit, but now it’s displaying the watch face plus something like a water drop at the top of the screen, but swiping to get the Control Center doesn’t work, and pressing either side button just gives me a message about unlocking and ejecting water (not needed). What to do?

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Posted on Jun 23, 2021 3:02 PM

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Jun 23, 2021 3:35 PM in response to Living Fossil

To answer my own question, the watch was locked! I had to turn the Digital Crown (a term which was a complete mystery to me - apparently comes from analog watch technology) which I was scared to do because of the reference to water in the message. Also you have to turn it quite a lot. Well. I may look foolish but at least I can use the watch again.

Can’t change anything - swipe doesn’t respond

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