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How to reduce motion effects in watchOS 9 on your Apple Watch

How to reduce motion effects in watchOS 9 on your Apple Watch

Short guide:

  1. Press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch and select Settings.
  2. Tap Accessibility.
  3. Tap Reduce Motion.
  4. On the next screen, tap the toggle switch for Reduce Motion to turn it on.

Before and after

Images showing text on an Apple Watch before and after Reduce Motion has been applied

This section gives you step by step instructions on how to reduce motion effects in watchOS 9, with pictures of the screens to help.

Find the Apple Watch settings

1. Press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch. If your apps are displayed as icons, tap the Settings icon . If your apps are displayed in a list, scroll down and tap Settings.

Images illustrating the Apple Watch digital crown, the App Icon screen, and the App List screen.

Open the Accessibility settings

2. On the Settings screen, scroll down and tap Accessibility.

Open the Reduce Motion settings

3. On the Accessibility screen, tap Reduce Motion.

Enable Reduce Motion

4. On the next screen, tap the toggle switch for Reduce Motion to turn it on.

Return to the clock face

5. When you are happy with your settings, you can return to the clock face by pressing the Digital Crown

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