Is your Apple Watch freezing, hanging, or irresponsive to commands? Well, the anti-dot for such situations is restarting your Apple watch. It is absurd that some individuals rarely consider resetting their smartwatch. Just like a human being needs sleep, the apple watch needs to reboot from time to time. Restarting your watch helps to keep it running smoothly by clearing the memory, and stopping any tasks that are eating up RAM. Restarts also fix peripheral and hardware issues. This article details a step-by-step guide on how you can restart your Apple watch.
How to restart your Apple Watch
Step 1: Press and hold the side button until you see the Power Off slider.
Step 2: Drag the Power Off slider to the right.
Step 3: After your watch turns off, press and hold the side button again until you see the Apple logo appears.
Step 4: That’s it, you’ve restarted your Apple Watch. It can take 20 to 30 seconds for it to finish booting up, but then everything should be ticking along again as expected. Therefore, any time your watch is having a few issues, the first thing you should consider doing is following the steps listed above.
Quick Note: If your Apple Watch is charging, take it off the charger first. When your watch is charging, you can’t restart it.
How to Force restart your Apple Watch
You should consider restarting your watch as a last resort only if your Apple Watch has proved to be irresponsive. To force restart your Apple watch;
- Press and hold both the side button and Digital Crown for at least 10 seconds.
- Release both buttons when you see the Apple logo.
Quick Note: Don’t force restart your Apple Watch if you’re updating watchOS. After you see the Apple logo and progress wheel, leave your watch alone and on its charger until the update finishes.