fitness plus not finding watch

I posted about this to Twitter and was contacted directly by Apple Support. I've been in communication with them over the past few days regarding this issue. At this juncture, they do not an idea of the cause and we we are still troubleshooting. Like other people, turning devices on and off resolved my problem but only occasionally and this is not an adequate solution from Apple. Just curious do you have any other Apple devices, such as an iPad that might be on at the time when you're having problems connected your Apple Watch to Apple Fitness on your iPhone?

I am noticing the same problem and spent hours trying to overcome it, before coming here.

One thing that I have noticed, is that on my watch when I go to settings, and choose "Bluetooth", the watch is going in an infinite search loop trying to find Health Devices and regular Devices.

Shame.... because I just paid for the subscription for fitness plus and looking forward to doing some activity! I couldn't even get the videos to play at one point. Yikes!

I was able to get it to work momentarily, but the videos in the fitness plus wouldn't work. Now, nothing seems to work. I am hoping for a fix from Apple.

Hey, just curious. Is your issue affecting your Apple Watch and iPhone or an iPad or Apple TV? My issue is with my iPad and my Apple Watch. Let me know when you have a chance - if you don't mind. I'll share with you what I've noticed since I've been talking to Apple Support.

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.

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.

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!!!

Thought I had resolved this issue by unpairing my old Apple Watch from my iPhone but it’s happened again a couple of days later. Very frustrating because the app is great when it works. Wonder if Apple have a big fix in the works

The program worked perfectly for a week then I started having these connection problems: not finding my watch and losing connection mid-workout. I unsubscribed and will consider resuming a subscription when Apple fixes the problem.

Same here. Watch will not connect to fitness+ on my phone even after multiple restarts of both. It will work with my iPad though. Though I don’t want to use my iPad all the time. And I sure as heck am not gonna delete all of my information and re-sync my watch just to use the Apple fitness that should work in the first place. I’ll just use peloton because I know that works 🤷‍♂️

Make sure your watch and phone have the latest updates

Then make sure you have the Home app on your phone.

You cannot mirror Fitness + to your TV- you will need to use Apple TV. So you’ll need the Fitness + app on your Apple TV.

That should do it.

Yeah, same issue here. I get the prompt to connect on my watch but then it just spins for a long time. I tried hitting cancel on my watch and "work out without watch" on my phone, which works for a while, but then the whole thing stops because "connection to the watch is lost".... which means the workout is done. Annoying because then you can't pick up where you left off in the workout. Way more trouble than its worth.

im still having this issue, any new ideas?

Oh it worked on the AppleTV! Thank you!

Same issue. It works fine on my iPad Pro, but weirdly doesn’t register / find my watch when trying to start a workout from my iPhone.

THANK YOU!!