Fitness+ Apple Watch pairing and Apple TV airplay issues

tawana99, have you checked to be sure your AppleTV is completely set up with Airplay and Home? I had a red 1 in the settings. Once I fixed this, it works perfectly.

Have you checked to be sure your AppleTV is completely set up with Airplay and Home? I had a red 1 in the settings. Once I fixed this, it works perfectly.

Check to make sure you have completed the set up of your watch. My daughter’s watch didn’t have the Apple ID password entered. Once I entered the password. BINGO

I did have an issue with my iPhone finding my watch when I launched my first workout just using my iPhone. I hard reset the phone and the watch via the buttons and when both devices booted back up it found the watch right away when I went back and started a new Apple fitness + workout

Have you looked at your settings on your Apple TV - airplay and HomeKit? Make sure you go there and connect your Apple TV to your iCloud account, which you’ll do through that spot on the Apple TV and the Bluetooth on your phone. It will guide you though the process through the Apple TV - airplay and HomeKit settings.

My Apple TV is in a different room (home theater setup) and connection keeps dropping I suspect because of Bluetooth reception. The solution of connecting watch to iPad, and using airplay to stream to Apple TV is a godsend. Thank you, @beckie48 !

install the home app. open the setting on your apple tv and activate the home kit, use your phone and apple tv complete the set up. After that your watch and the apple tv fitness app can connect with each other.

Hard reset on watch and phone unplugged Apple TV and plugged back in

Everything up to date on phone, watch, and TV? Is everything using the same Apple ID? No red asterixis in the Settings on the Apple TV indicating some piece of the setup is not complete?

So I uninstalled the home app and reinstalled it and went through the setup process on home app and now it’s working on Apple TV and iPad...thanks for help everyone and hope this helps someone else

After resetting my Apple Watch to a past backup, it worked on my Apple TV

Apple Watch - Settings - Appleid

Make sure sign in has been completed.

After trying most of the other fixes listed I found out this is what the issue was for me.

The answer from SwahiliBob helped me. It’s pairing the IPHONE to the AppleTV under Airplay and HomeKit that got the watch and Fitness+ to all work together as advertised. Thanks, Bob!

Almost found a solution this morning that may or may not help others....

Some posts are recommended ding setting up the HomeKit area, of course for those that have never done this it could be the solution. For others, I'm sure they have already set up HomeKit before Fitness+ even came out so not much to see here.

Then there are posts about making sure you have iCloud set up as well. Again for those that have never done this it could be path to getting things to work.

This morning went to one of my ATV gen4 and

1. Logged it out of iCloud under accounts
2. restrated
3. Logged back into my iCloud account
4. The above process obviously removed ATV form HomeKit as well.
5. I now saw the red 1 more thing to configure inside the AirPlay HomeKit section; my hopes were high
6. Went into Airplay/HomeKit section and was prompted to connect phone (bring it by ATV, bluetooth, etc)
7. Set everything up; and still a no go for my watch
8. Restarted; no go
9. Went back to HomeKit changed name of room device was in; no go
10. Changed name of device, no go...
11. Again, my wife's watch was already working before all this and still worked after I did all above.

I think this is karma for all the times I had upgraded my phone, watch, with new features/emojis and she's like "how do you get that?" and I just replied update your phone fool 🤣

Anyway for some it may help to go through steps above. At this point only thing I have not done is reset phone, watch. Not in mood to go through that yet. Working fine for me with phone, iPad, and watch so I can wait on ATV to; as apple puts it "just work" 🙄

So completing the Home Setup fixed the issue. I’m not sure, but you may also have to be the default user.