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Apple Watch screen wakening delay.

Hey, I updated my Apple Watch series 9 to the latest software update recently 27.0.0 and the screen seems to lag slightly when I move my wrist to waken the watch (it takes a split second longer than it did before I updated it) I updated to 27.0.1 yesterday & it is still the same.

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Have you tried to force restart your watch to see if the issues persist? Never do this when updating watchOS!


Press and hold both the Side Button and the Digital Crown at the same time.

Keep holding them for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears, then let go. 

Hi, yes I tried this a couple of times but it didn’t make any difference.


Thanks for the reply