How To Close Apps On Your Apple Watch
There are many apps available for the Apple Watch that offera wide variety of specialties. The problem is leaving too many of them running in the background at once can sometimes have an adverse effect on your hardware.
It’s unlikely that having a multitude of apps going will cause any real damage to your Apple Watch, and in most cases leaving them suspended is actuallybetter for the battery, but if the apps are designed to partially run in the background — tracking various data points, monitoring your location, etc. — then leaving too many of them on could drain your power levels more quickly.
For situations like that (or if you just don’t want to leave too many open for any reason, really), you can manually close individual apps whenever you want. Whether you barely use them, so you don’t need to leave them open, or they’ve started to act up and you want to restart, it’s a fairly simple process.
Closing your Apple Watch apps
It’s very easy to close apps on your Apple Watch once you know the proper procedure, but the steps will vary depending on what version of watchOS you’re using.
Closing apps on your Apple Watch only shuts them off unless or until you decide to open them again. If you want to remove an app from your Apple Watch entirely,you’ll need to delete it.
Force closing an app on Apple Watch
Apps that are frozen or otherwise locked up may not be able to close through normal means (and won’t be usable again until they are), in which case you’ll need to force them to close.
If you force a frozen app to close but the problem persists when you attempt to use it again, something may be wrong with the app itself. In that case, you might need to delete the app and reinstall it or even reach out to the app’s developers for help.
