Samsung Watch Running Slow? This Simple Trick Made Mine Feel Like New Again

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Your Galaxy Watch is not truthful different from your telephone aliases moreover a messy room. When put to awesome use, it, too, gets cluttered. 

By continually utilizing your Galaxy Watch, regularly switching betwixt apps and functionalities, aliases moving excessively galore apps astatine nan aforesaid time, you're bogging it down pinch information that clutters it and slows performance. This results successful slower performance, stiff screens, and an annoying personification experience. 

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Luckily, dream isn't mislaid - and you don't request to bargain different instrumentality to hole this issue. In fact, I'd counsel against doing truthful whenever you're confronting immoderate capacity rumor pinch your technology. Before you ammunition retired much money connected a caller device, location are immoderate tips and tricks you tin usage to respire caller life into an aged one. 

This brings america to, rather possibly, nan easiest hole to lagging smartwatch performance. The clearing of nan cache. 

What's a cache? 

Think of a cache for illustration a garbage can. It temporarily stores your smartwatch information (or junk) and, successful this half-baked analogy, considers that information erstwhile you log into sites aliases execute regular tasks. 

Just for illustration a garbage can, it gets filled pinch junk aft a while and originates to overflow if not decently handled. You yet person to dispose of nan junk successful a dumpster to adhd much junk (or data) to nan can. 

Clearing your cache removes immoderate of that junk that's making nan garbage tin (Galaxy Watch) capacity laggy. 

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These tips use to most, if not all, Samsung Galaxy Watch models.

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According to a Samsung spokesperson, nan Galaxy Watch's representation guidance operates automatically done system-driven optimization. However, you tin still return manual steps to clear nan watch's memory. 

If your watch is buggy, laggy, aliases draining artillery faster than normal, clearing nan cache tin region corrupted aliases outdated files, one Reddit personification explains

When shouldn't I clear my cache? 

The Reddit personification besides explains that location are definite circumstances erstwhile you should debar cache-clearing, for illustration correct aft a package update, erstwhile nan smartwatch is already utilizing other compute powerfulness to rebuild nan cache. 

Could restarting my watch do nan aforesaid thing? 

Also: How do clear your Android's telephone cache

Restarting your smartwatch could region immoderate bugs and glitches. However, a reboot won't clear nan cache, truthful no, it isn't nan aforesaid thing. 

How to clear your Galaxy Watch cache

To adjacent each caller apps connected your Galaxy Watch, swipe up from nan watch look and pat nan Recent apps icon. From there, prime Close all.

If you want to negociate apps moving successful nan background, unfastened nan Recent apps surface again and pat Active successful background. You tin past prime nan circumstantial app you want to close.

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To optimize your phone's performance, spell to Settings, prime Device Care, and past pat Memory. From there, you tin take Clean Now to free up space.

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Final word

It's champion believe to occasionally clear your Galaxy Watch's cache, particularly if you announcement capacity slowdowns aliases hiccups. The process is straightforward and quick, but it should make a noticeable quality to really your watch performs afterward.

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