Apple Watch Series 2 running slower on OS 4.0

Very slow another way of saying go out and buy Apple Watch 3! Money makers.

I sure hope they’re not doing that crap without telling us.

I’ve seen little to no improvement with the latest update. My wife and I are disgusted that we spent 400 dollars each on these and they barely work.

Thank you, this seemed to work for me!!!

Thanks for the solution!

Just to clarify, the route is

Watch Setting -> Workout -> Detect Gym Equipment

(Or simply do a search in the watch app)

Mine was already turned off so that solution won’t work for me.

This solution worked for me on Apple Watch Original for the workout APP. I updated the settings on my iPhone and settings updated on my watch.

I have the same problem. I tried restart, update, unpair but it is still working slow 😟

Incredible! Siri was super slow and usually non-responsive most of the time before I tried your solution! Thanks so much for posting

Tried it. Seems to be working for me! Siri is way more responsive.

Im having exactly the same issue, Ive tried to reduce screen animations, deleted some of the apps and reduced amount of notifications in Apple Wach s2. It's still extremely slow, every app I use I have to tap twice or even wait few seconds as the watch screen freezzes. My ipHone 6 is significantly slower than my other one 7, and now Im loosing patience with Apple Watch 2. The funny thing is Ive upgreaded to from Apple Wach series 1 as it was already so slow, now its exactly teh same with 2. Im stuck now with two very slow APPLE watches!

Change to Favorite under Dock setting do help a lots. Otherwise every app require at least 20-30 seconds to load.

Last Sunday I just use Nike App to record my half marathon run and it take at least half a minute to able to Start and also hang for around 10 seconds to display the progress (though it count after press "Start"), however when I press "Stop" the app just hang and quit suddenly. At first the record seems disappear and luckily after few days when I check the Nike Run App again it re-appear.

After update to watchOS 4.0 my watch is also unbearably slow. I thought I’d wait for the updates in hopes of seeing an improvement, but as of watchOS 4.2 this problem is still present.

I Followed all the recommendations in the first reply to this question. Unpaired and re-paired as a new watch. No improvement. After a few month, I gave up and started contacting Apple Support to complain since my watch was still under warranty. I was able to get my watch replaced. After pairing the new Series 2 watch as a new watch (starting from scratch with practically no apps) the watch is still slow, especially the workout app.

Additionally, I have a friend with a series 2 watch who hasn’t updated from watchOS 3 to 4. That watch is a year old and is fully responsive with no slowness or lag.

If a new watch doesn’t help, then this problem is definitely in the watchOS 4 software code. Apple, please pay attention to this post and fix this problem. You guys literally turned all series 2 or lower watches into garbage with the watchOS 4 update.