Apple Watch apps missing

The weather app and calendar app are now missing from my watch. The complications are also missing, but that's not a surprise if the apps are missing. They are both present on the paired iPhone. When I go to the App Store on the watch and try to install Weather, it says "iPhone is required" and the "Get" button is greyed out. Any ideas?


iPhone: 16.3.1

Watch: 9.3.1

Apple Watch Series 7

Posted on Mar 14, 2023 7:16 AM

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Posted on Mar 14, 2023 8:37 AM

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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Mar 14, 2023 8:37 AM in response to BryanMacUser

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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