Apple Watch Strangeness.
So, with my heat pump having failed earlier this year, I have homeowner’s anxiety. It rained today, and as I was getting ready for bed, I kept hearing a gentle thrum every second, reliably.
I checked the bathroom sink, it wasn’t that.
I checked the shower. Nope.
Went outside to see if there’s something dripping from the gutters. Nope.
It’s a little too noisy to hear anything outside but I stand still for a second to see if I can hear it - nope.
I go back inside, press my ear to the wall, the floor…. Nothing.
I walk around the bedroom, isolating the sound to just next to the bed. I touch the nightstand - it’s vibrating every second in time with the pulse.
I pick up the speaker, no vibration.
I look at my Apple Watch and notice the pulsing is in time with the seconds indicator on the digital watch face - so I poke the watch, feeling it pulse in time with the screen.
I can’t find this anywhere in the settings, to turn this off or on. I lift it up, put it on and it stops.
I set it back down on the charger and wait for it to start back up - nothing.
I’m not sure why this started or why it stopped. Such a strange thing.
@EnochianEntropy My Fossil WearOS watch was doing this - it had to do with the watch not having a good connection with the charger. The Apple uses a very slightly different interface (mine has actual metal pins that need to engage) but mine stopped the pulsing hum when I reset the alignment on the charger.
Technology! lol
@EnochianEntropy when I put mine on the charger at night, I set it on the magnet, and wait for it to hum once. That means it's charging.
It might be!
@kismatt But in sync with the digital second flash is odd. If it was charging intermittently, it wouldn’t be so reliably in time - it also continued as I lifted it off the charger until I put it on.
@EnochianEntropy Ah...well, mine was def every second, but yours sounds more like it was looking for your heart monitor sensor.
@kismatt I’m just going to have to pay attention and try and figure out why it does this next time. I doubt it’s a charging issue.