fitness plus not finding watch

When I start a fitness workout in Fitness+ on my iPhone, it is not finding my watch. It says "Apple Watch Unavailable". Both my phone and watch have the latest software updates, the watch is unlocked and Bluetooth is on.

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 8:35 AM

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Posted on Jan 8, 2021 6:15 AM

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 :)

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Dec 30, 2020 12:42 PM in response to aberdeenmeadows

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.

Jan 26, 2021 7:16 AM in response to hugsmindy

Hello hugsmindy,

I understand your concern about Apple Fitness +. To get the feature on your watch you will have to update to the newest version of watches and your iPhone has to be on iOS 14.3. If you already tried that just out on here that you tried. To update iPhone to go to Settings App ^ General^Software Update^Install. To Update watch Open watch app on your iPhone^ General^Software Update^Install

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