Apple Watch not pairing with fitness plus on IPAD

Not sure if this will help everyone, but I toggled bluetooth off and on again on my watch (SE), worked fine after that, and has continued to do so on my devices (iPhone SE, iPad mini 4). I'd previously tried turning all my devices off and on again, removing and adding the Fitness app, signing out of iCloud, but the toggle was the only thing that seemed to work for my particular case, after all that! Hope it helps someone else.

I'm glad I'm not the only one having such a painful experience. I spent two hours yesterday updating the software on my Apple Watch and trying to figure out a way to cast the video from my phone to MacBook. Seems like it should be pretty straightforward but apparently the only way to do it is to have an Apple TV. incredibly obnoxious!! Now I can't get the fitness+ app to find my watch. Clearly I won't be subscribing after the free trial. Too bad cause I like Bakari and used to do his workouts when he was with ClassPass Live.

Winner winner fitness dinner.... daniell3 your solution was the ticket! I rebooted and reinstalled so many times and quite frustrated. But I had not used the Home app on iPad. Only phone. I opened the app...clicked continue and let it load. The fitness app on iPad immediately recognized the watch. Many thanks

I am having the same issue as the original post author mentioned. I also tried resetting my device, deleting all data and also redoing the steps mentioned on deleting the fitness app, restarted and I am still struggling to connect it to the iPad. The fitness app just doesn’t find the Iwatch. I do have 2 Apple TV’s and Apple fitness + works very well on them. I believe this is a software issue on the IPad, hopefully the developers fix this before my trial evaluation runs out. I use an IPad on my threadmill and it is really helpful to have to not look at a small iPhone screen.

Hello, this has been happening to me as well for 2 weeks already. All I had to do was unpair the watch from my iphone (setting it up as a new watch again) and voila! It worked long as its close to the Ipad. hope it helps and yours finally work!

I tried every suggestion on this page and oddly this one that was suggested worked!!

as the user said. Just open the “home” app that most people do not use, click ‘continue’ on the splash page and let it set up.

then just go back to the fitness app and it finds the watch!

I also tried both using the Home app and deleting and logging out of iCloud solutions. After logging back in the iCloud now I can't even use the fitness app on my iPad Pro which worked before. The option to log into the Fitness app is greyed out.

I solved this issue for myself by making sure all of my devices (iPad, Watch, and iPhone) had the latest OS updates. I realized my watch wasn't up to date and once I installed that, Apple Fitness + saw my watch without any issues.

I tried everything with no luck -- then I followed advice of some helpful folks on this feed to just open the Home App on the iPad (an app that I didn't know existed and had never opened before). Did that and now the watch connects to iPad. You guys rock: tons of thanks.

I was able to finally log into the iPad and connect one (user) Apple Watch to it. I'm still having trouble connecting my Apple Watch and have to resort to the small iPhone screen. I hope Apple is pushing an update for the iPads soon.

My issue was that the apple watch and iPad wasn't on the latest OS. It's now on watchOS 7.2, iPhone is on iOS 14.3 and, iPad is on iPadOS 14.3. I also made sure I was using the same iCloud account across the three devices. The fitness app on iPad (with bluetooth on) didn't seem to trigger the watch until after I selected "Lets Go" on a workout.

Having restarted iPad and watch multiple times, I could only get fitness+ to work on my phone and watch synched which is less than ideal - I took the advice of another user here who opened the home app and that resolved things to allow iPad and watch to work together

I was able to get both of my IPads to work with Apple Fitness and my Apple watch by signing out of Icloud in both , deleting the Fitness app on both, signing back into Icloud and then redownloading the Apple Fitness app on the IPad. I did each Ipad separately. Now when I start a workout on either Ipad the activity starts up on my watch.

Rant aside from the above post, my issue is Fitness+ was working fine connecting to both my iPhone and Apple TV so I could exercise from my big TV. I then tried to connect it to my iPad and everything went south. Not I can’t get my apple Wartch Series 6 to connect to anything. I have an iPhone 12Pro, Apple TV4k, 3rd Gen iPad all running the lates OS. Tried all the solutions listed in this post to no avail. In MHO this seems to have something o do with the iPad because my phone and AppleTV were working fine until I attempted to connect to the iPad. I do hope this gets resolved soon as like the guy above said why spend $$$ if it doesn’t work.... Maybe consider rebate until it gets solved.

FIXED!!! After trying everything I read online and over 80 minutes with Apple via chat I discovered I had some apps that showed "waiting" and when I clicked on them it said they needed to be updated so I just deleted them. Scoured my iPad and deleted all those and then magically the watch paired so Apple Fitness + works properly.

I hope this helps!