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My Apple Watch 2 started to act funny, it would launch siri and scroll between apps all by itself. It was acting as if the digital crown was being pressed in and rotated. I tried the usual cleaning methods as per the apple website but without any luck. It does rotate freely and doesn’t feel sticky at all, and although it does these things it is completely unresponsive. I have to use the the side button to navigate my way round the watch the best I can. Does anyone have any Ideas? Many Thanks
The digital crown uses a set of detectors that note the rotation. It sounds like the detectors have failed. You can see them here in the Teardown: Apple Watch Series 2 Teardown in Step13. Given how far you need to get I would just let Apple deal with it. They at least have a flat fee for the repairs.
