So @viciousviscosity wanted to hear a good story from #PyOhio. Here's a fun one.
As you may have seen, I was t{wee,oo}ting a lot. As such, my Apple Watch was going nuts with RTs, faves, &c. I was talking to some people in a hallway and force-pressed to clear my notifications… and somehow the "Clear All" button got stuck on my watch screen.
I kept pressing it, and nothing happened. So I tried holding down the button that normally would bring up the power-off screen…
Finally, I find the article. "Hold both buttons down till you see the Apple logo," it says. I did this, and finally, *finally*, the watch definitively powers down and I reboot it.
As far as I can tell, emergency dispatchers were never summoned, and nobody at the conference got in trouble, particularly yours truly. And I amused the people I was talking with, a little.
Phew. 😅
@zigg Great story. Would it have been better if cops showed up or better that they didn't?
@Patrickme I'm sure it would have been a better story if they'd showed, but not great for my nerves 😄
@zigg hehehe 😆 That's a great story. Gave me a good chuckle this morning. glad no emergency personnel had to get involved. 😅
@viciousviscosity Me too, haha. All this time I'm listening to my watch hoping that no voice comes out of the speaker asking me what my emergency is… 😅
Watch: *loudly* WHOOP WHOOP
Apple Watch has a feature that I've never had occasion to try: if you hold down the function button for *even longer* than it takes to get the power-off screen, it will go into emergency mode and eventually call the local emergency dispatch service.
I'm now in full panic mode. I pull out my phone and try to determine whether it's calling 911. I can't… tell. I'm frantically searching Apple's support site to find out how to hard-power-down my watch, pronto.