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Can’t get to control center on watch.

My watch has the red notifications dot. When I swipe up I can’t get to control center. My apps seem to be working, just can’t scroll down or up on the face.

Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 8

Posted on May 30, 2022 5:36 PM

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Posted on May 30, 2022 6:22 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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May 30, 2022 6:22 PM in response to Questionforall

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


May 31, 2022 4:24 AM in response to Questionforall

Hii friend ,

I had the same problem , in most of this situation try to press and hold the to buttons for seconds , after that you will see the apple icon then let go og the buttons , the watch will restart and every thing will be fixed , it has worked to me !

if it doesn't work try to check new updates for the watch sometimes if you have alot of updates it starts working not well , after I wrote this post I've seen that there is some tell you what should you do !


Can’t get to control center on watch.

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