Apple Watch swipe up not working

I have an Apple Watch series 3 42mm running watchOS 6.1.1. I experience a problem where the watch face goes 'deaf' every few days; swiping down from the top to view notifications does nothing. Similarly, swiping up from the bottom does not bring up the control center. I've only been able to resolve this by restarting the watch.


Any thoughts on what is causing this? Bug in watchOS?


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Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 6

Posted on Dec 19, 2019 9:00 AM

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Posted on Dec 19, 2019 9:12 AM

Try a forced reset;

To force reset your Apple Watch, press and hold both the side button and Digital Crown for at least 10 seconds, then release both buttons when you see the Apple logo.



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Dec 19, 2019 9:12 AM in response to SGraff

Try a forced reset;

To force reset your Apple Watch, press and hold both the side button and Digital Crown for at least 10 seconds, then release both buttons when you see the Apple logo.



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