

On Galaxy Watch 4, swipe down the Quick Access menu and then power off your watch.

You can do that by pressing the Power button for 3 seconds or you can open Settings > System and restart your watch there. For that and other reasons, whenever you run into a halt of sorts, make sure to restart your watch. This doesn’t necessarily mean that your device will be inherently slow, but multitasking is not exactly a strong suit for Wear OS-powered devices. Wear OS showed pretty underwhelming results when it comes to stability and performance, especially on devices running Qualcomm Wear 3100 and older. Reset the watch to factory settings Play Store says “Download pending” on Wear OS 1.Uninstall the app and install it again.

If that’s also the case with you, make sure to check the solutions we provided below. Users can’t download or update apps because the Play Store repeatedly gets stuck. A quite prominent problem is the long-lasting Download Pending message on Wear OS. With the announcement of a Pixel Watch, we can expect that Google pays closer attention to Wear OS, considering this system is not exactly a pinnacle of wearable performance and quality.
