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Apple Watch
Stop Running Apps

2026-10-05 10:45:46.709

Apple Watch
Stop Running Apps

If an app on your Apple Watch® is freezing, crashing, or acting strangely, manually stopping it can help. This can clear up temporary software issues and causes the app to shut down so you can restart it instead of just sending it to the background.

Steps

  1. From the Watch face screen, swipe up from the bottom to display all open apps.
  2. Scroll to the desired app then swipe the app from right to left.
  3. Tap the
    X icon
    .