[Swordmaker]

The problem seems to be in the Apple Watch 4 software not properly distinguishing a WIFI connection that does not have a connection through to the Internet. The Watch instead of rejecting that connection due to the lack of Internet connectivity, it fails to automatically drop that WIFI signal and move on to another available WIFI signal which does have an Internet connectivity or pickup the LTE connection. it could be something as simple as failing to log the WIFI channel as unsuitable and just repeatedly reconnecting. This is something that can be fixed with an easy software fix.

[EnglishOnly]

Oh MY,..... better go find some illegals to fix it!

[Red Badger]

Well, there goes my Christmas present......................

[Artemis Webb]

It doesn’t matter. The Apple fanatics will buy anything in any condition. Then they’ll look you in the eye and tell you it’s flawless.

[Swordmaker]

Apple acknowledges a connectivity problem with the new LTE AppleWatch 3 before even gets delivered. The first Apple Watch 3 is due to get delivered on Friday, but reviewers have discovered, and Apple has acknowledged, an issue with handing off the phone and data cellular connectivity if there is a WIFI signal present that apparently does not have an Internet connection, such as an internal WIFI in an office space. The Watch latches onto that WIFI and will not switch over to the LTE connection or to another WIFI with Internet to allow phone or data connection until the user moves far enough away from the first connected WIFI. Apple is working on a watchOS update to solve this issue. — PING!

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[House Atreides]

I ordered one for my wife (late - I didn’t wake up at 3am as I planned) on the first day but expected delivery date isn’t until 10/10 - 10/17. This minor software problem will likely be fixed before we get the watch.

[The KG9 Kid]

I discovered this bug months ago with the previous version of iOS when my phone always seemed to want to connect to the WiFi OBD2 scan tool dongle I have connected to my car’s on-board diagnostics port. The dongle communicates via WiFi (not Bluetooth) but doesn’t serve as an internet connected hotspot.

Whenever I’m in my car, the iPhone automatically connects to the WiFi OBD2 scan gizmo and prevents LTE wireless internet from working unless I tell my iPhone to forget the scan tool as a network. I suppose that the iWatch3 is unable to tell itself to forget the non-internet enabled WiFi network?

[montag813]

Apple stock got smacked around today for this seemingly minor issue. I bet Apple has it resolved via update before the watches are even delivered.

[TalonDJ]

Good! Sounds like a software fix. If it was a hardware problem they would be in trouble.

[Uri’el-2012]

The problem seems to be in the Apple Watch 4 software not properly distinguishing a WIFI connection that does not have a connection through to the Internet.

Poorly constructed or No testing.

Code testing has been a discipline
for over a half a century.

Or just poor management.

[Uri’el-2012]

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/09/20/182226/turning-off-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-in-ios-11s-control-center-doesnt-actually-turn-off-wi-fi-or-bluetooth

[Uri’el-2012]

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/09/19/1641245/apple-file-system-in-macos-high-sierra-wont-work-with-fusion-drives

[TheBattman]

I’m really shocked this wasn’t found sooner. Did Apple not have field testing of this Apple Watch for a significant time - and would appear to be a significant fumble, uncharacteristic for Apple.

I’m glad I’m not in the market for, nor placed a preorder for an LTE Apple Watch - a week out from “shipping” is not a good place to be with a major flaw in the software. If Steve were still running things, there would be proverbial heads rolling...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Off topic:

The dead-tree Wall St. Journal has an article headlined “Bain Prevails in Toshiba Contest,” which discusses a $18B deal for Toshiba’s memory chip business. Apple and Seagate are part of the group which I take it was put together by Bain to raise money Toshiba is in dire need of to get its balance sheet in order after Toshiba took a bath in “its US nuclear subsidiary, Westinghouse Electric, which filed for bankruptcy protection in March.”

[Larry Lucido]

So we're still not quite here yet.