fitness plus not finding watch

My issue is affecting only my iPhone and my watch.

I am able to run fitness+ on the tablet perfectly fine with the watch. I did three workouts thus far for the first time, and love it.

I am curious as to why the issue with the iPhone. If you have any suggestions, I would be happy to try. I've rebooted both, etc.

One thing that I tried was logging out of iCloud on my iPhone, deleting the app, and then reinstalling. And of course it worked. But the issue I've been having is with my iPad not being able to see my Apple Watch. (My iPhone always connects to the Fitness app on my watch.) I've been going back and forth with Apple Support on this issue, which intermittently occurs and can be difficult to repeat. As an experiment, I've taken to turning off my iPhone when launching the fitness app on my iPad. And so far, my iPad sees my Apple Watch. (Really strange.) Another thing I've been testing leaving my iPhone in my bedroom and launching the app on my iPad in my living room. (Here what I'm looking at is whether proximity is somehow playing a factor in the iPad not discovering my Apple Watch through Bluetooth.) These are unusual steps I know. But I suspect the having multiple devices talking to Apple's cloud infrastructure doesn't work as cleanly as they might suggest.

Something that I did was to log out of iCloud on my iPhone, delete the app and reinstall. But my other question has to do with the proximity of your iPhone to your Apple TV when you're unable to connect to the Fitness app through your Apple TV. Is your iPhone nearby? Have you tried turning off or disable the bluetooth on your iPhone when you're trying to connect to your Apple TV? I ask become I'm having a similar problem but with my iPad.

I did log out of iCloud and back in, but that didn't help at all. Because I am able to connect via my iPad and do my fitness from there, I think I will continue in this way. I do want a resolution and will keep my eye on these posts for anything definitive. I feel a solution will come via an update or fix from Apple.

I may have to assemble all of my devices and log out of Apple on each of them!!!! I may just turn off every device that I have and bring each one back up one at a time to see if that clears out the issue or help me identify if it is a device or something within iCloud.

I was having the same issue but I contacted Apple Support. They asked me to go to the Home App in the iPhone that my Apple Watch is paired with. I was a bit skeptical, but it worked! The Home App in the iPhone prompted me to enter the *iPad* passcode. I guess that solved some iCloud keychain issue or something because now I can see the Apple Watch fitness stats while doing Fitness+ workouts everywhere (iPad, iPhone and Apple TV).

Thanks for the update. I went to the Home app to see if there was anything, but there wasn't.

I recently updated iPhones and so I went to the previous iPhone and unpaired the watch.

I am still having the same issue.

I had the same issue on my iPad Air 3rd Generation. It was actually working fine about a week ago. I was having some issues with the iPad so I did a factory reset. After doing said reset, the Fitness Plus was no longer finding my Apple Watch.

It said Watch Currently Unavailable when I would go to start a workout from the iPad. I have the Watch on OS 7.2 and iPad on 14.3 but still wouldn't work. I have the Home app downloaded and it still wouldn't work. Multiple restarts did not work either.

Today, I simply logged out of my iCloud completely on the iPad and then logged back in, after that, everything works fine now.

After over an unsuccessful hour on the phone with Apple support, I found this suggestion. I logged my phone out of iCloud, which automatically logs out the phone, and when I signed back in, it worked. Try this before wasting an hour + with the support team.

Indeed! Log out of your Apple Account, which logs you out of iCloud, reboot phone if need be, and when you are logged back in, if your fitness+ doesn't work still, check your subscription to make sure that you still have fitness+ as part of your package. Mine got downgraded for some reason - but was easily able to rectify that by choosing the right plan again.

I tried all the things. Logging out of iCloud on my iPad, toggle off wifi and Bluetooth etc. All the things everyone suggested. The thing that finally worked on my iPad was closing te app completely and reopening it. How silly. Good luck everyone !

here is what worked for me. Go to the

Apple Watch software updates and turn off automatic updates. Then turn it back on and it showed that an update was available. Once that update was installed I was able to connect to the Apple TV. Everything seems to be working well now.

Solution! I canceled the trial membership to Apple fitness+ and picked a better app from the thousands of free ones out there. I like my stopwatch and playlists combined with the native workout app on the watch. There’s no annoying “coaches” pretending to know what they’re talking about and the music is so much better!!!

I was having the same issues too. What I just did is toggled off the wifi on my watch, so that it is only reliant on the Bluetooth to connect my devices. So far, it is pairing to Fitness+ now and working again now. Hope that works for y’all too!

Hi all, Happy new year.

After 4 hours with the Apple support they could not help me resolve the issue.

What I did after that and worked is:

Unpair Apple Watch

Set up as new Apple Watch.

30 minutes later everything was up and running

Fitness + works like a charm both on my iPhone and Apple TV.

I highly suggest you do that without wasting any time finding another solution.

You don't even loose any health data. The only thing you'll have to do is re-do your notifications for the native apps and personalise your watch faces.

Hope this helps :)

It’s a common Apple problem with cloud services / connections. Happened to me. To solve this; log out of iCloud and log back in again. To do this, on iPhone, go to “Setting” -> “User Name at top” -> scroll down to bottom “Sign Out”. Log back in. Should work.