@DTS Engineer
Thanks for following up. Here is what we know, sticking to what the data shows.
Reproducibility
We have not been able to reproduce this ourselves. None of our own Apple Watch devices are running watchOS 26.2 or 26.3, so we haven't been able to test developer, TestFlight, or App Store builds on an affected OS version. Every report we have comes from the crash reports Xcode Organizer collects.
Distribution channel
None of the reports contain a Beta Identifier field.
The reports don't contain a distributor field either, so we can't tell whether any of the affected installs came through VPP/MDM.
OS versions
All of the crash reports with these signatures come from watchOS 26.2 (23S303), 26.2.1 (23S314) and 26.3 (23S620). We have not seen either signature on any other watchOS version, including watchOS 27. We can only speak to what the crash reports show, though, so we can't say for sure that later versions are unaffected.
Other details from the reports:
Only devices running the arm64 slice are affected.
Nearly all of the crashes happen during background / non-UI launches.
The crashes keep recurring on the same device. One Watch7,5 has crashed every day since October 12.
Build environment
For the affected builds we have archives from Xcode Cloud:
Xcode 27.0 (27A266a) and Xcode 27.1 (27A9275)
watchOS 27.0 SDK (24R360)
Deployment target watchOS 10.0
Default linker, with no custom linker flags
Build machines on macOS 26A428, 26A434 and 26B5091g
The archives and dSYMs for these builds are attached to FB25270892, along with the crash reports.
Happy to provide anything else that would help.