Well, this is embarrassing. Yesterday Apple released watchOS 3.1.1 to squish various bugs. Now, as noted by MacRumors, the update has been pulled because it’s bricking some Apple Watches.
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Affected Apple Watches are displaying a red exclamation mark on the screen that instructs them to visit www.apple.com/help/watch. The site directs Apple Watch owners to perform a force restart of the Apple Watch by holding down the side button and the Digital Crown, and says that if a restart does not work to restore the device, it will need to be taken in for service.
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