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Clearing cache speeds up a slow Galaxy Watch.Cache buildup causes lag and battery drain.Restarting isn’t enough — manual cache clearing helps.

Your Galaxy Watch is not so different from your phone or even a messy room. When put to great use, it, too, gets cluttered.

By continually using your Galaxy Watch, regularly switching between apps and functionalities, or running too many apps at the same time, you’re bogging it down with data that clutters it and slows performance. This results in slower performance, frozen screens, and an annoying user experience.

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Luckily, hope isn’t lost — and you don’t need to buy another device to fix this issue. In fact, I’d advise against doing so whenever you’re confronting any performance issue with your technology. Before you shell out more money on a new device, there are some tips and tricks you can use to breathe new life into an old one.

This brings us to, quite possibly, the easiest fix to lagging smartwatch performance: clearing the cache.

What is cache on a Galaxy Watch?

Think of a cache like a garbage can. It temporarily stores your smartwatch data (or junk) and, in this half-baked analogy, considers that data when you log into sites or perform regular tasks.

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Just like a garbage can, it gets filled with junk after a while and begins to overflow if not properly handled. You eventually have to dispose of the junk in a dumpster to add more junk (or data) to the can.

Clearing your cache removes some of that junk that’s making the garbage can (Galaxy Watch) performance laggy.

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According to a Samsung spokesperson, the Galaxy Watch’s memory management operates automatically through system-driven optimization. However, you can still take manual steps to clear the watch’s memory.

How to clear cache on a Galaxy Watch