Problems w/ exercise/fitness app on Apple Watch

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Problems w/ exercise/fitness app on Apple Watch

Hi all,

I’m having some difficulty with my fitness/exercise app on Apple Watch Series 6.

When doing exercise the “now playing” section no longer shows the music that is playing, I have to either go to the Spotify app or the main screen and click on the “now playing” section there. I’m super confused why the “now playing” section isn’t showing the music. It just says not playing.

Second, when I close a fitness ring or hit a mile when running Siri will stop the music completely, announce it to me, and then disconnect my AirPods from my phone and I have to go back in and reconnect them. I have announce notifications off for “Watch” and “Fitness” so it shouldn’t be doing that. And even with other notifications that Siri does announce he doesn’t stop the music or disconnect the AirPods it just gets a little quieter.

Device info:

iPhone 11: 15.0.2

Apple Watch Series 6: OS 8.1

If anyone knows anything let me know! Thanks!

Apple Watch Series 6

Posted on Oct 25, 2021 7:18 PM

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Answer 1

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javaliga

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Oct 25, 2021 7:25 PM in response to Camille_Powell

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support

If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support

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Answer 2

Nov 26, 2021 7:51 AM in response to Camille_Powell

Hi!

I have figured it all out. If you go to the Apple Watch app and click on fitness and scroll down to the bottom and turn off Voice Feedback, Siri will stop announcing the workout notifications.

For the other problem, I think there was an update that fixed the now playing section in a workout, it now shows it.

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Answer 3

Oct 25, 2021 7:26 PM in response to Camille_Powell

So I figured out half of the problem, if you go to the Apple Watch app and click on fitness and scroll down to the bottom and turn off Voice Feedback i’m assuming Siri will stop announcing the workout notifications. I haven’t tried it yet but that would make sense. I’m still having the problem with the “Now Playing” section when doing a workout.

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Answer 4

Nov 4, 2021 3:46 AM in response to Camille_Powell

I’ve recently ran into this issue too at least partially.

While wearing AirPods, Siri will interrupt music playing to announce a completed mile and tell me my pace time but then the music never restarts afterwards. I have to manually restart music. I think this is a bug

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Answer 5

Nov 22, 2021 3:19 AM in response to Camille_Powell

I have the same problem. Siri announces the pace, and then Spotify stops and has to be manually restarted, which is a real pain while you're running. Does anyone have a solution? I know I can shut off voice feedback, but I want to hear the split pace. I just want to be able to continue hearing my music after it's announced.

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Answer 6

Nov 25, 2021 7:43 AM in response to crocker1234

Hopping on the train here, this was a terrible user experience update. I run long distance, the simple slight vibration was sufficient. Despite disabling notifications it still interrupts my music and I have to manually restart it.

I do not want my music stopped AT ALL let alone every mile + closing rings on my watch for 13 miles. I can get relevant information in half a second looking at my watch but siri wants to take 15 seconds to read it out to me.

If anyone knows how to disable this please let me know.

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Answer 7

Nov 26, 2021 7:53 AM in response to Chasecorndog

Hi!

I have figured it all out. If you go to the Apple Watch app and click on fitness and scroll down to the bottom and turn off Voice Feedback, Siri will stop announcing the workout notifications.

For the other problem, I think there was an update that fixed the now playing section in a workout, it now shows it.

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Answer 8

Nov 26, 2021 5:03 AM in response to Chasecorndog

Has anyone tried using another running app on the watch like RunGo while listening to music? Does that work better?

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