watchOS 2b4 slow & locks up

I installed b4 and the watch is slow and actually locks up now requiring a force reboot. When it first launches, it works just fine but after a few minutes, it starts to bog down and eventually requires the force reboot. Unpairing and repairing doesn't fix it.


I wonder if there is a weird process causing this. Is anyone else seeing this?

You aren't using the Simple watch face are you? I've read that using Simple can/does cause issues.


I've found that Modular works well (as long as you don't use the weather complication) and Utility.

I'm using the Utility face with sunrise/set, weather, and calendar. I've been having the random lock ups and slowdowns since wOS2B4 install as well. I notice often the temperature isn't loaded on the Utility face and sometimes the sunrise/set info on the Utility face is not populated.


I have not tried to use another face yet.


Yesterday, I had the watch lock up at least 4 times which required a hard reset to get it responsive again.

I had the same issues as people are describing here until I switched to X-LARGE watchface. I noticed that all the very simple watch faces with just the time or time and date on them will make the watch a lot more responsive. Siri always responds fast when pressing the crown (which is not the case with any watchface that has complications on it). So there's definitely a bug with complications that drains the battery and slows down the processing a lot.

watchOS 2b4 slow & locks up
 
 
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