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Watch pauses workouts even when locked

Hey all. My 6 Watch keeps pausing during my kickboxing workouts even when I have the lock feature on. I am wearing it as tight as I can with my wrist and I am making sure that nothing is touching the buttons. Its super frustrating that it has a workout for kickboxing and I can't even use it during that. I replaced my fitbit so I could have more functionality with the watch and now I keep having this problem. I turned off "Press to Pause" and I turned off "Running Auto Pause". Why does this keep happening?!

Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 7

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 2:05 PM

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Nov 3, 2020 3:24 PM in response to krisley16

Hi krisley16,


Looking over your post, we see that your Apple Watch pauses unexpectedly during your workouts. You've turned off the auto-pause features, and made sure the Apple Watch has a snug fit, but the issue persists.


To aid us in isolating this issue, we'd recommend the following:

  • Take a look over the steps in this article for general guidance on wearing your Apple Watch: Wearing your Apple Watch
  • Additionally we'd recommend looking over the following article, and make sure all steps are taken to get as accurate of a reading from the Apple Watch as possible: Get the most accurate measurements using your Apple Watch
  • If you swap the Apple Watch to the opposite wrist during workouts, does the issue persist?


Feel free to reply to this post, and we'll follow up from there.


Cheers!

Watch pauses workouts even when locked

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