14 Tricks to Speed Up a Slow Apple Watch
If your Apple Watch is running slower than it should, here are 14 tricks to speed it up.
If your Apple Watch is running slower than before, taking a long time to open apps, answer calls, or start a workout, there may be a solution. There are many reasons why a Apple Watch may run slower, especially if it is an older model, but fortunately there are Tricks to Speed Up an Apple Watch.
Reasons why the Apple Watch may be slow
there are some reasons why an Apple Watch can be very slow, and we will teach you how to solve them. If you think that something like this could happen to your Apple Watch, it is possible that this is the reason why it is slower.
- You haven’t restarted the Apple Watch in a long time.
- You’re not using the latest version of watchOS.
- You have too many apps installed on your Apple Watch.
- There are many applications running that use more battery and leave little free RAM.
- You don’t have enough free space on your Apple Watch.
- There are automatic background tasks that slow down the experience.
- The Apple Watch battery is damaged and degraded.
- You have an old Apple Watch from a few years ago.
Tricks to speed up Apple Watch
With these tricks you can improve the performance of your Apple Watch, solving some of the problems described above.
Restart Apple Watch periodically
It never hurts to restart the Apple Watch, just like it happens with any other electronic device. Restarting Apple Watch deletes certain data that can slow down our apple watch. So just press and hold the Apple Watch button and slide to turn off the watch, then press it again to turn it on again.
Close apps you don’t use
The Apple Watch has its own RAM memory, which if filled with apps can slow down our device. The Apple Watch keeps the last apps you’ve used open and that can slow it down. To close applications only press the side button once, the last open apps will appear, swipe left and tap on the “x” to close them.
Uninstall unnecessary apps from Apple Watch
If you have many apps installed on the Apple Watch, the free storage space is reduced, thus reducing the performance of our watch. Can remove apps from the Watch app on iPhone, or by tapping the Digital Crown, tapping and holding app icons, and tapping the “x” to remove apps.
Update to the latest version of watchOS
It may seem like a no-brainer, but the best thing you can do is always have the latest software updates on all your devices. Therefore, it is important to have the latest version of watchOS if you find that your Apple Watch is slow. You can do it from app Watch> General> Software Update.
Turn off automatic photo sync
The Apple Watch Photos app is synchronized with the iPhone with the latest photos we have taken, and this process is done in the background consuming resources. You can disable it from iPhone Watch app > Photos and turning off photo sync.
Apple Watch on a table
Disable app refresh in the background
If we use a lot of apps and they stay in the background, they consume resources, making the Apple Watch use more battery and also work slower. Fortunately we can change these settings from the Apple Watch itself in Settings > General > Background Refresh and turning off the switch.
Eliminate Frequently Updated Complications
Apple Watch faces can be customized with what Apple calls Complications. These are small apps or widgets that we can always see on the sphere, but that consume resources. Therefore, If you notice that your Apple Watch is slow, remove apps that have Complications, or remove these Complications from the spheres you use.
Turn off automatic app installations
By default, every time you install an app on the iPhone, if it has an app for the Apple Watch, it will be installed on the watch. This is not recommended if your Apple Watch is low on internal storage as it can slow it down. You can disable this setting from the iPhone in the Watch app > General Automatic installation.
Clear Website Data on Apple Watch
Although your Apple Watch does not have a browser to use, although there are tricks to surf the Internet, it does store certain data from websites that can slow it down. To remove them, go to your Apple Watch at Settings > > General > Website data and touch Clear website data > Clear data.
Browse the web on Apple Watch
Deactivate the hand washing timer
watchOS includes a function that automatically activates when we wash our hands with a countdown, but this function is constantly listening, spending resources and battery. You can disable it from two places:
- on Apple Watch: Settings > Hand washing and turning off Hand washing timer.
- on iPhone: Watch app> Handwashing and disabling Handwash Timer.
Reduce motion and animations on Apple Watch
Something that also exists in the iPhone and that helps a lot to improve performance and fluidity. Simply on your Apple Watch go into Settings > Accessibility > Reduce Motion and turn on Reduce Motion. Your Apple Watch will feel faster.
Turn off training reminder
The Apple Watch is designed to be more active in our day to day life and has a function that automatically detects when we are training and reminds us to start training, and this could be something that reduces performance. You can disable it from Settings > Training > Training start reminder.
Turn off music sync
Just as it happened with photos, it happens with music, the lists that we have selected will be synchronized automatically. You can avoid this consumption of battery and resources of your Apple Watch from the iPhone Watch app > Music and turn off Recent Music.
Reset Apple Watch and set it up again
If your Apple Watch is still running slow, the last step is to reset it to delete it completely and re-synchronize it. This is a long and complex process for which we have a tutorial where we explain step by step how to factory reset an Apple Watch.
Hopefully these tricks have helped solve problems with your Apple Watch. If after applying them it continues to work slowly, it may be due to an internal failure of the Apple Watch that you should consult with Apple support, or because it is a device that is too old.
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