The Apple Watch won't charge

Giovanni's Step 3 did it for me, after 2 or 3 forced starts did not work (actually the watch shut down and was completely unresponsive).

I then plugged the cable into the iPad charger (10W) and tadaa... after 2 seconds the watch booted. Strangely it showed a battery charge of 88% once the boot was complete, so I can relate to what Giovanni called a "jump start". The watch subsequently charged to 100%. I will observe how this continues.

This is my replacement watch as my first one wouldn't charge and got hot when I tried to charge it.... my new replacement watch won't even turn on... when I put it on the charger it showed green but then it won't turn on or anything and shows red.. help I don't want to send this 2nd one back also... any ideas?

All of these reset steps and the instructions from Apple did not work. The only thing that works (and it works every time), is to put my watch in the refrigerator for about 5 minutes. It seems that the charging circuits are affected when the watch is too warm. DO NOT use the freezer or you risk cracking the seals on your watch. Charges fine once cooled.

I'm having the same issue. It shows it's charging but the power level keeps going down. At this rate it'll be dead by morning, how disappointing for day one. Other than that I love the watch.

Reboot the watch. I had to reboot it twice and now it's charging.

I am having the same problem, I am currently on support chat to Apple to see if we can fix the problem.

So far we have done the following:

1. Turn off the watch (hold side button (while not on charge) and then swipe to power off like iPhone)

Then Reset the watch

1. Hold the Digital crown and the side button and the same time until you see the apple logo

Put on charger and see if it charges.

If this does not work do the following:

1. reboot iPhone

2. go to apple watch app

3. in the apple watch app got to > general > reset > erase all content and settings

4. wait for watch to erase and reboot to language screen

5. Set up the watch until you see the app bubbles

(a difference i noted at the point of first installation was, that the linking with my iPhone didn't work with the camera, i had to do it manually with bluetooth codes, not sure if this was the problem to begin with, however now with erasing and starting fresh, the linking has worked properly with the camera)

and my watch is now charging properly. You may not need to do all of these steps but its worth a try!

Mine was doing this. Does your feel really warm while it says it charging? Mine did.

I don't know what I did other than re-position the charger button a couple of times but it did start charging.

I had the same problem. The reset fixed it for me. Could my problem have had something to do with the fact that I didn't remove the plastic cover from the charging disc at first? Even after I removed the plastic, it still wouldn't charge. The reset fixed it.

To Reset the watch

Hold the Digital crown and the side button and the same time until you see the apple logo

Have you tried plugging it into your computers USB port?

I ended up doing a reset last night and it was at 100% this morning.