Apple Watch Series 2 running slower on OS 4.0

After restarting my watch, performance is much better. But the process is painful, it took me a lot of multiple buttons pressing and patience to turn it off and back to on

Apple Watch series 1 seems super fast again (very responsive Siri and fast to switch between watch faces and open apps) after upgrading to 4.3

IEEEEEANR wrote:

It’s funny how we all have this problem and yet Apple will not respond to the 5 pages of concerns that are posted. No mention of “we are working the issue” or any kind of resolve. Long time customer and am starting to second guess my decision for for products I love.

You are not talking to Apple here - this is a user-based technical support community.

If you would like to send feedback to Apple (you should not typically expect to receive a reply), then you can do so here:

• Feedback - Apple Watch - Apple
• "We read all feedback carefully, but we are unable to respond to each submission individually"

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Will Apple give a reply that they will resolve the issue? Tried even the weirdest the solutions, all didn’t work. Still took 3 taps to make any run start. There’s no magic trick until Apple do some fundamental change in the WatchOS itself. For example, remove redundant functions, or remove any deliberate tricks to slow down the watch app.

I’m also facing much faster battery drain now. Normally 60% remains. Recent weeks only 30% remained sane usage.

I have a open case with Apple Care about this exact issue, we have 3 Series 2 Apple watch’s in our house and they are all experiencing the same problems since updating to Watch OS4. I’m dealing with a senior advisor that apparently has never heard of this problem. You and anyone else with this problem should contact Apple support.

Have you tried updating your watch to 4.2?

If your Dock setting is currently set to Recents, then it may help to change it to Favourites:

Use the Dock on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

I confirm. Since I installed 4.2.2 update, the exercise app in iWatch goes much faster

I’ve just updated 4.3 and it seems to have fixed the lack of response when trying to start a workout. I can now use the watch for what I bought it for :-).

This made no difference to me, but the latest update to 4.3 seems to have fixed the issue at last!

Same issues. I've lost a number of Runkeeper workouts because of it. On WatchOS3 it was NEVER an issue streaming music via Bluetooth and running Runkeeper. With WatchOS4 the same activity makes the watch unbearably slow.

Yes, both my and my wife's Series 2 watches, just a few months old when upgraded to watchOS 4, now seem like they are a few years old—glacially slow launching apps, changing faces, etc. The Siri feature is unusable. I've been using Apple products for more than 30 years and while this is a familiar problem with their products, this is the most egregious example I have seen in several years. I was hoping for improvement with the point updates, but we've had two of them now without any restoration of performance. I'm a very disappointed customer at this point.

Same issues here with series 2.

Siri asks to hold on after asking her something and then asks if I summoned her! I ask her the same commands and she sometimes gets it and sometimes does not, FAIL!!!

Workouts, when I tap the icon the screen becomes un responsive then it takes 10 seconds to be able to choose an exercise.

Timer: My most used item, when I set a new timer with Siri it can take a good 10 seconds to start, not good when you need precision. When I open the timer the screen is unresponsive for 5 to 10 seconds just like when I use the workout app.

When I pull up my wrist to look at my watch, it can take 5 seconds for the screen to tun on.

My biggest worry when buying the watch was exactly this, just like older iPhones that get and updated version of the iOS. I paid a lot of money for a watch that worked fine for less than a year!

I tried all the tricks, unpair, reset, restart, updates... they do not work always the same issues.

Another one here to add to the "Apple Watch S2 is turning into nothing more than a... watch" brigade.

Went for my first run today for a few months (I know...) and launching Music and Nike+ was a real pain, with music basically freezing for a minute or so.

The run itself seemed okay, although skipping songs was a bit delayed, but post-run was really bad - the Nike+ app was incredibly laggy and the screen kept getting stuck halfway through swipes.

Feeling pretty disappointed with Apple at the moment.

Are you referring to the 4.2.2 update not helping? It has solved the exercise app issue for me. I’m sorry if it is still being buggy. Not acceptable