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Green light glowing on back of Apple Watch

How can I turn off the constant green light on my Apple Watch?

Posted on Aug 26, 2021 2:48 PM

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Posted on Aug 26, 2021 6:04 PM

Those are the heart rate sensors. See the 'How Apple Watch measures your heart rate' section in:

Monitor your heart rate with Apple Watch - Apple Support


They should not be constantly staying on or it will drain your battery very quickly.


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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Aug 26, 2021 6:04 PM in response to Webstinator

Those are the heart rate sensors. See the 'How Apple Watch measures your heart rate' section in:

Monitor your heart rate with Apple Watch - Apple Support


They should not be constantly staying on or it will drain your battery very quickly.


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


Green light glowing on back of Apple Watch

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