Every Google Pixel Watch Owner Should Know These 2 Simple Performance Tricks

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• A restart fixes freezes, errors, and update issues.
• A reset clears each information to hole awesome glitches.
• Use restart first, reset only arsenic a past resort.

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Like each different portion of tech, our smartwatches tin get sluggish aft continual use. Maybe you're waiting respective seconds for your smartwatch to load functionalities, aliases you're experiencing annoying glitches that distract you from utilizing nan watch.

By continually utilizing nan smartwatch, regularly switching betwixt apps, aliases moving excessively galore apps astatine nan aforesaid time, you're bogging it down pinch information that clutters it and slows performance. This could consequence successful stiff aliases unresponsive screens, aliases lag.

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You tin do a fewer things to reside this, for illustration initiating a restart aliases a reset. In this article, I'll locomotion you done erstwhile you should execute a restart and erstwhile you should reset.

Why should I restart my Pixel Watch?

Restarting your Pixel Watch tin correct issues for illustration nan stiff "G" logo that won't spell away, an correction connection stating that thing went wrong, timed-out updates, aliases a forgotten PIN, Google writes successful an article. 

How do I restart my Pixel Watch?

There are 2 ways to initiate a restart connected your Pixel Watch.

First measurement to restart your Pixel Watch

1. Press and clasp nan crown of your watch for 3 seconds.
2. Scroll until you spot "Restart."
3. If this doesn't work, Google suggests performing a difficult reset. To do so, property and clasp nan crown and broadside fastener for astatine slightest 35 seconds, aliases until nan "G" logo appears.

Another measurement to restart your Pixel Watch

1. Tap your Pixel Watch to aftermath it up.
2. Swipe down connected nan apical of nan surface to activate nan Settings.
3. Tap into Settings.
4. Once you're successful Settings, pat into System. (If you don't spot System correct away, Google says to swipe near connected nan watch to entree Settings.)
5. Scroll until you spot Restart. Activate Restart.

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What's nan quality betwixt restarting and resetting?

If your smartwatch were a room, a restart would beryllium for illustration personification washing nan windows, vacuuming nan floors, and changing nan furniture linens. A reset is for illustration personification emptying nan room and scrubbing it cleanable of its tenant. The restart refreshes your smartwatch to make it cleaner, fresher, and faster, while a reset clears nan watch of each spot of information connected it to commencement anew.

Why should I reset my Pixel Watch?

Resetting your smartwatch should hole awesome issues and clear it wholly of its data. You would typically do this if you're giving your smartwatch distant aliases if a restart didn't hole a glitch you've been seeing. 

One Redditor said his Pixel Watch was "a spot janky for a while," truthful he performed a reset. He said that not only did resetting nan watch hole a artillery drain issue, but it besides removed an further characteristic that was seemingly causing glitches.

How do I reset my Pixel Watch?

1. Tap your Pixel Watch to aftermath it up.
2. Swipe down connected nan apical of nan surface to activate nan Settings.
3. Tap into Settings.
4. Once you're successful Settings, pat into System. (If you don't spot System correct away, Google says to swipe near connected nan watch to entree Settings.)
5. Scroll until you spot Disconnect and reset.

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