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 large glitches.
• Use restart first, reset lone 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, oregon you're experiencing annoying glitches that distract you from utilizing the watch.

By continually utilizing the smartwatch, regularly switching betwixt apps, oregon moving excessively galore apps astatine the aforesaid time, you're bogging it down with information that clutters it and slows performance. This could effect successful frozen oregon unresponsive screens, oregon lag.

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You tin bash a fewer things to code this, similar initiating a restart oregon 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 close issues similar the frozen "G" logo that won't spell away, an mistake connection stating that thing went wrong, timed-out updates, oregon a forgotten PIN, Google writes successful an article. 

How bash I restart my Pixel Watch?

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

First mode to restart your Pixel Watch

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

Another mode to restart your Pixel Watch

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

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What's the quality betwixt restarting and resetting?

If your smartwatch were a room, a restart would beryllium similar idiosyncratic washing the windows, vacuuming the floors, and changing the furniture linens. A reset is similar idiosyncratic emptying the country and scrubbing it cleanable of its tenant. The restart refreshes your smartwatch to marque it cleaner, fresher, and faster, portion a reset clears the ticker of each spot of information connected it to commencement anew.

Why should I reset my Pixel Watch?

Resetting your smartwatch should hole large issues and wide it wholly of its data. You would typically bash this if you're giving your smartwatch distant oregon 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 helium performed a reset. He said that not lone did resetting the ticker hole a artillery drain issue, but it besides removed an further diagnostic that was seemingly causing glitches.

How bash I reset my Pixel Watch?

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

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