Since WatchOS 26, my Apple Watch screen stays very bright in sleep mode

Since WatchOS 26, my watch screen stays very bright in sleep mode. How do I fix this?


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Original Title: Watch Sleep Display too bright

Posted on Sep 23, 2025 2:38 PM

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Sep 23, 2025 5:21 PM in response to claporte

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Since WatchOS 26, my Apple Watch screen stays very bright in sleep mode

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