Generally Apple Watch is very stable and rarely needs to be rebooted or restarted, sometimes it can become stuck, unresponsive or any feature on the Apple Watch may stop working as intended. If above mentioned Situations arise you can get Apple Watch working as usual when you did force restart.
Forcibly restarting an Apple Watch is similar to the force reboot mechanism on other iOS devices like iPhone and iPad in that you hold down device buttons until the device shuts itself off and turns itself back on again. Follow the steps given below to reboot Apple Watch
- Press and hold down both side buttons on Apple Watch until you see Apple Logo.
- Side buttons are the digital crown and the power button and both must be pressed and held simultaneously to forcible restart Apple Watch.
If you don’t hold them down long enough you will end up screen shooting Apple Watch which is not what you want to do in this case.