Since November 31st my Apple Watch Series 4 stop recording cardio fitness. I’ve already reset privacy settings and even the Watch, but nothing seems to solve the problem. Any help?
Apple Watch Series 4
Hi lapaesleme,
It appears that for awhile your Apple Watch Series 4 hasn't been been reporting Cardio Fitness levels, even after trying some steps with your Apple Watch. If you haven't already, you can see if restarting your paired iPhone and Apple Watch may help resolve this issue:
Another step you can take is to ensure your iPhone and Apple Watch are fully updated, to see if that may help as well. If there is an available update, you'll want to backup and update as seen in the articles below:
If you'd like, you can read more about Cardio Fitness here: Set up Cardio Fitness Levels Let us know if those steps help or if you've already tried those steps.
Best wishes to you.
lapaesleme,
Thank you for letting us know. If this issue continues after trying recommended troubleshooting steps, you can reach out to Apple Support so this can be looked into further. You can reach them with the previous link or by dialing the phone number for your country or region (or a nearby one) as seen here: Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support
Take care.
Hi Claire!
Thank you for the suggestions, but unfortunately, they didn't work. I restarted the iPhone and watch (shutdown + turn on), and Apple Health kept not showing Cardio Fitness data. Not even the watch appears as a data source in Apple Health. Both devices are updated with the last software versions. The weird thing is that everything else seems to work perfectly in Apple Watch. Just the cardio fitness doesn't show up.
Thank you Claire!
Today I’ve tested the other suggested procedures, i.e. add cardio fitness data manually, turn on airplane mode, etc, but unfortunately it didn’t work either.
As you suggested, I’ll try calling Apple Support.
Apple says;
Your Apple Watch gives you a cardio fitness ESTIMATE by measuring how hard your heart is working during an outdoor walk, run or hike.
VO2 max relates to maximal exertion. So you’ll need to log a pretty intensive workout to generate a reading. And you’ll need to sustain it for at least 20 minutes.
Tighten the watch band a touch and clean the sensors on the bottom of the watch..
Reset fitness calibration.
Input a VO2 max figure manually based off your last record from the health app then re-calibrate the watch.
Put the watch in airplane mode,do a walking/running or hiking workout of at least 20 minutes,when you've finished turn airplane mode off and let the watch sync the data to the phone.
Other foum members solutions;
Put my phone in airplane mode and made sure that bluetooth also was off. Normal airplane mode won't disable bluetooth if you have an Apple Watch. I checked on the watch that it was completely cut off from the phone.Did a 25 minute outdoor walk.
And that did it! When the walk was finished I had a VO2 Max reading with the watch as data source!
Today I did another walk, the exact same route, but with my watch fully connected to the phone. After the walk I got a new data point, so it seems to be working as it should.
Puzzl1ng
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Oct 20, 2020 11:50 AM in response to Puzzl1ng
Update: 2020/10/20
Finally, a solution!
A couple of days ago, I went for a walk. I started the Workout-Outdoors Walk but for some reason I forgot to link the watch to the iphone as I always do and kept it on airplane mode. I walked for about 25 minutes then synced with the phone not expecting anything to happen. I was surprised to see a VO2 max recorded.
Emboldened, I kept the watch linked to the iphone and went for another 25 minute walk hoping to get another VO2 max reading. Surprisingly, *no* VO2 max was recorded during the second walk.
Since that day, I have done a few runs and multiple walks while keeping the watch in airplane mode in all of them: each one recorded a VO2 max without a problem.
So put your watch on airplane mode, go for a run/walk, and see if it helps.
Oct 1, 2020 4:39 AM in response to Scheldon
Hi,
I managed to get my Apple Watch to record a VO2 Max today. I've done a number of things recently so I'll list the key things for others to see if this works for them.
I manually added a VO2 Max entry at the start of the week.
I completed my first run duration of over 20 mins, hoping that would trigger something. It didn't.
I immediately completed a Walk of over 20 mins. My Apple Watch updated the VO2 Max immediately after the Walk.
My Apple Watch Series 4 stop recording cardio fitness
