How to force restart an Apple Watch

Thanks to the powerful chips that they mount today, that the latest Apple Watch freezes and does not respond is something really strange that it happens, although it can happen. Normally Apple Watch itself is capable of realizing on its own that something is not working correctly and restarting itself only if necessary, but there are times when it has to be us who do this. And it is that if the clock does not respond when we press on the lock button it will normally mean that it needs us to do a hard reset.

Luckily this process is simple and you don't have to be an expert to carry it out . Below we explain step by step what to do if your Apple Watch does not respond, and how to proceed if this happens often.

How to force Apple Watch to restart


The first thing before making a hard reset to Apple Watch is to make sure that we cannot go through another solution and that it really does not respond. To check this we will try to test if the Apple Watch can be turned off by the usual method. We will keep the side button to see if the clock shutdown screen appears, if it does not need to perform a hard reset, we will simply have to wait a little for the clock to finish the processes it has in progress.

Apple Watch shutdown screen. 

In the event that Apple Watch has not reacted to this attempt to Common shutdown will be time to perform a forced restart. For this follow the steps detailed below:

  • 1st Keep the clock side button pressed.

  • 2nd Press the digital crown at the same time.

  • 3rd Keep both buttons pressed at the same time by 10 seconds until the clock reset screen appears.


Apple Watch hard reset
Apple Watch shows the bitten apple on a black background as it restarts. Source: apple.es

Now is the time to let Apple Watch start again, after this it will be working normally.

My Apple Watch crashes very often


On some occasions, it may happen that our watch is experiencing some internal error due to a software or firmware failure , and this causes it to crash often and leave to respond. In this case, to solve these frequent blocks we will have to restore our Apple Watch to the factory state to eliminate this possible failure in the event that it exists. We can do this in two ways, from the iPhone and from the watch itself.

Restore an Apple Watch from iPhone


This is possibly the most optimal way to restore an Apple Watch since a backup of your watch is automatically created on the iPhone that you can reload on it once you have restored it, thus not losing the apps and other information that you had on Apple Watch. To restore it from the iPhone, first make sure that the clock and the phone are nearby, then follow these steps:

  • 1st Opens the app Watch on the iPhone.

  • 2nd In the tab of My watch click on your watch at the top.

  • 3rd Click on the button with an "i" on an orange circle that will be located the right of your watch.


Desemparejar Apple Watch 1
Source: apple.es


  • 4th Select the last option that will appear in red, where it says Unlink Apple Watch .



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At this point, in the event that we have an Apple Watch with the possibility of a data plan, and we have an active one, we will be asked if we want to keep it, in the event that you want to continue using that same plan once you restore your Apple Watch.

  • 5th Confirm that you really want to unlink your Apple Watch from that iPhone by clicking on Unlink Apple Watch from… .


To finish, you may be asked again for the password of your Apple ID to confirm that you really want to unpair it, we put it and accept it. The Apple Watch will begin to be restored and when finished we will find it again in the factory state to be able to configure it again. This is a good tactic to delete any file that we have been able to install on it that would generate a conflict on the clock .

Restore an Apple Watch from the watch itself


In the same way that we can restore the clock from the iPhone, we can also do it from the same clock directly . In this case the iPhone will not be backed up, but we also don't need to keep the iPhone close to it.

To do this follow these steps:

  • 1st Opens Settings on Apple Watch.

  • 2nd Here you go to General , then click on Reset .

  • 3rd Here click on Delete content and settings .


Just like when we restore it from the iPhone , you will be asked if you have an Apple Watch with cellular connectivity if you want to keep your associated data plan , in case you are going to continue using Apple Watch with it.

After this, you will be asked to enter the unlock code of the watch, when you put it, it will begin to be restored.

Re-pair your Apple Watch to your iPhone


Now that the Apple Watch has been completely erased it is time to re-link it to the iPhone to be able to use it again . For this, just go to the iPhone app Watch again and select Link a new Apple Watch .

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From here you will be guided to link both and configure the Apple Watch, in addition to the iPhone It will ask you if you want to restore it from a previous backup or as a new device. To avoid reproducing the error that could be causing the clock to crash, we recommend that you set it from 0 and do not load the backup , thus avoiding if the error It was due to a file or configuration that has been kept in the copy, it will be played again when loaded.

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