Apple Watch Series 2 running slower on OS 4.0

YES!! You're not the only one. I was thinking the exact same thing. I always get so mad when I start an exercise app. It seems like it takes almost a minute for the application to even get started, it's so irritating. I can't believe Apple hasn't address this issue.

Brilliant! Worked for me too. It makes sense. That 10 second delay was the watch looking for compatible gym equipment. When it doesn’t find any it lets you select your workout manually.

Awesome find.

Same issues. I’ve gone through the reset/repair cycle many times and no improvement on my series 1. Starting workouts is just simply a painful process. If lucky, it hangs for a while (>20s) or outright crashes. I’ve intentionally not loaded additional apps on there to try to improve things but it’s borderline becoming useless as a fitness tracker. I’m so disappointed. Because of the recent trust issue, I can’t help feel this is similar to the recent battery-gate. It’s not convincing me to update at all, but rather jump-ship to Fitbit....

Same issues even after doing everything you recommended. Siri is so slow now. Zero issues before. Can you guys look at optimizing better on 1-2 gens old devices. We love your products but this forced obselence is borderline unethical. My iPad mini 2 was great on iOS 10. Now on 11 is virtually unusable.

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.

I have the same issue. The Nike app is so abysmally slow that it barely starts and the voice guided features and such lag and don’t work. I totally wiped my iphone7 and series 2 Apple Watch and reinstalled everything: no change.

This is completely unacceptable and I wonder if they have clocked down the old watches similar to the phones. WatchOS 4 has totally ruined this for me. My ecosystem is all Apple, Macs, Apple TV. Now I’ll be replacing this watch with a Garmin and seriously considering moving away from the ecosystem in general.

The problem with Apple compared with android is that they give no options for people to downgrade to older iOS or watchOS. We are permanently stuck with with ****** user experience.

Im updated to 4.2 and its still utter trash!!!

I gave up on using the music on the watch some time ago, it doesn't work when any other app like the run app is going.

I have the same issue.. it’s frastrating to have such performance issue from such top end products..

I'm also having the same problem. Series 2 (although I've had it for about a year, since it came out). I hope they fix this soon!

Your so right!!! This is very DISAPPOINTED!!

Same issues. I would make the switch to android and windows in a heartbeat if it wasn't such a sunk cost of all these failing apple products

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