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.
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 :)
This worked for me! I tried all the complicated fixes first and this sorted it haha, thank you!
Updating both watch and the iPhone did the trick for me. Hope that helps!
Wow! Sounded crazy but this actually worked for me as well! Thanks for sharing!
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.
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.
Hello,
I had the same problem and was able to fix it by turning off the wifi connection on my Apple Watch. As soon as I did this it connected instantly.
You can do this by swiping up on your Apple Watch to the control center and tapping the wifi logo to disable it.
Hope this helps!
For some reason my Apple Watch just received the Watch OS update this morning, December 18th. After updating, I restarted both my iPhone and Apple Watch, and finally, Fitness+ works!
I unsubscribed but kept going back. Pairing and updates weren’t my issue.
After talking with a thousand stumped geniuses, one on the phone suggested turning my watch off.
That did it.
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