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Outdoor cycling not credited as exercise with Apple Watch series 6

Using my series 6 iWatch when I choose outdoor cycling it correctly tracks my route, heart rate and speed.

when I finish my bike route and finish the cycling tracking the activity rings are not updated.

if I cycle for 30 minutes I would expect 30 minutes to be added to the green exercise ring but they do not.

i have checked to see if the location services and watch settings are correct and seem to be.

the watch correctly tracks my route mileage and GPS shows my correct route. My average heart rate was 128 so it should register as exercise.


to close my rings I had to select the “other” exercise category and let it run for 33 minutes but my heart rate was 78 but it counted towards exercise and logged it properly.

I have searched this problem on apple discussions and the go to answer from apple is check certain settings but it doesn’t seem that’s the problem.

HELP, I’m trying to correctly track my exercise that’s why I bought this watch.



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Posted on May 2, 2021 12:44 PM

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Posted on Sep 2, 2021 12:18 PM

There is clearly a glitch between the phone and the watch. I just finished a 12 mile ride in 1 hour, and my watch only shows 1 minute of exercise in the Exercise Ring. When I go to the iWatch fitness app on the phone, in the summary all the data from the Outdoor Ride is shown accurately, except on the Exercise Ring. Apple needs to fix this.

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