Apple Watch not pairing with fitness plus on IPAD

Tried all suggestions plus and none worked. Until I set up the home app on both my phone and iPad. Went back into the Fitness account after launching Home on both phone and iPad and it connected right to my watch! Very thankful for the user who suggested this!

My last ditch "nuclear" option worked - I simply backed up my IPad and then erased all data and content and chose to setup the IPad as a brand new IPad and lo and behold, it worked. Obviously this method has its disadvantages as I have to setup my apps all over, but it gave me a chance to clean house and choose only what I need. I am sure if I tried to restore from the backup, it would not work, so I am going to wait and see if I truly need that backup and get rid of that too if I do not need it anymore.

Sorry to hear that Borderlineatoms999. Wonder if the Ipad hardware model makes a difference. Mine is an Ipad Air 2. I figured taking the drastic action of erasing all data and content, I could see at what step the app works or does not work, knowing that I could go back to my backup if it made no difference. Luckily for me, after I erased and started setting up the Ipad as a brand new device, I basically started the Home app as my first activity, then downloaded the Fitness+ app as my next activity and that seemed to do the trick. Then I went ahead and started adding in my other apps I use frequently. At this point I am planning to not use the backup anymore.

I did the above two suggested posts: logging out of iCloud, deleting the Fitness+ app, logging in again and re-downloading the app with no luck. But your suggestion about turning off the iPhone's Bluetooth did the trick. Now, the Fitness+ app is finding my Apple 5 watch. Thanks so much!

After doing a few of the suggestions - deleting/reinstalling the app, etc. I realized that my watch software was not up to date. I updated to the watchOS 7.2 and it works on both my iPad and iPhone now. Go figure.

FIXED (eventually)

I tried most of the fixes & Helpful responses offered here but none of them immediately fixed the issue.

The next steps I carried out which resulted in it working:

-Turned my iPhone off

-opened activity app on my watch, with the iPad nearby and unlocked.

-The ‘Handoff’ fitness+ app on my iPad recognised the watch had it open and I was able to open (still unable to recognise watch when attempting to start a session though so unsure if this part is relevant or not)

-Next, started an activity using my iPhone which connected to my watch as expected.

-while the activity was running, I attempted to start an activity using the iPad app and as it looked for the watch it gave an error along the lines of “you are already in a session so you can’t start another” basically it had some connectivity to my phone / watch.

-upon finishing the activity (on my phone), I restarted the fitness app on my iPad and tried again..... and it worked. The iPad (Pro) successfully connected to the watch and I was able to connect to my TV using a USB-C hub.

i have been using the fitness plus app for a couple of weeks on the iPad now and it hasn’t had any further issues.

Not saying it will work for others but hopefully it will for some!

good luck!

Agree on being able to cast if you have a watch and iPad/iPhone and smart tv probably with Apple TV app on it why you need an Apple TV Box?

Connecting to iPad try switch the watch to airplane mode. Seems to work

Completely agree with sentiments here. Aside from fitness plus not recognizing the brand new Apple watch6 that is paired to the device running the app, the fact that we cannot screen mirror fitness videos onto our tv is a disgraceful money grab. Not to mention a main feature that drove me to overpay for an Apple Watch in the first place. Deceptive advertising at best.

I have tried every single solution here and nothing works. I’m glad your solution worked for you, but I can’t get it to work at all for me! While the Apple Fitness+ is cool. I will be cancelling the free trial and waiting for them to update so that we can psynch it with our iPad and mirror it to a tv. Expecting you to do a whole workout on your phone is incredibly ridiculous. I’m beyond disappointed to say the least!

After recent update I experienced the same issue. Tried all that was written here and contacted Apple support, which didn’t help. One thing stuck in my mind while talking to Apple support. They asked me if I signed under same ID in all my devices. And I was. I was told to wait for the new update and I didn’t mind.

Later on today I decided to change the password and re-login on all devices and somehow this password changing fixed an issue. Hope this will be helpful for someone who is experiencing the same problem.

Tried all of these. It worked temporarily then stopped again. Inexcusable that Apple can't get this fixed. I want my money back on this premium Apple One subscription. Does Apple actually use its own software?

FIX

I had this issue.

You need to make sure you are signed into the ‘Home’ app (orange house icon’). You need to be signed in to Home on the iPad and iPhone. Probably worth opening it on the watch too to be sure, that’s what I did. I restarted my phone and bingo the watch connected to the iPad for Fitness+

Hope this works for others.

FIX

I had this issue.

You need to make sure you are signed into the ‘Home’ app (orange house icon’). You need to be signed in to Home on the iPad and iPhone. Probably worth opening it on the watch too to be sure, that’s what I did. I restarted my phone and bingo the watch connected to the iPad for Fitness+

Hope this works for others.

Oh my God this is SO frustrating. I tried installing home on all three devices (iPad, watch, iPhone), toggled BT on and off, restarted all of them... UGH my watch still won't connect to my iPad. We're expected to do all these workouts looking at a PHONE across the room?

I so wanted this to work for me but alas, after trying the Home app thing multiple times, I had to sign out of iCloud to get Fitness+ to work with my iPad. Just happy it’s working! Thanks for everyone’s suggestions.