Apple Fitness + won't connect to Apple watch or stuck on confirm on your Apple watch.

So it’s been over two weeks from my call with support where I unpaired my watch. I have not had an issue since and run it almost every day. The only issue I had was yesterday where the connection to the Apple TV was slower than normal, but I chalked it up to wifi issues as we we’re having network problems most of yesterday. I’m continuing to monitor and hope you all get resolution soon!

again, I’ll keep monitoring on my end! Good luck!

Unpair and repair worked for me. Do backup before unpairing

The 8.4.2 watchOS fixed my problem…but I never had the pairing “cancelled message”.

I did it via my iPad as the TV is set up in my “Home” app. If you open the Apple TV in the home app on phone or iPad there is a cog. I changed the room there. What you described above I would imagine did the same thing but if you want you try it just in case?

I dont get why apple isn’t providing much support on this. My solution is still working but last week i’ve noticed additional delays going from 3 sec maybe 15 sec. I force close the fitness app on my tv seems to help.

I just updated to tvOS 15.3 and watchOs 8.4, and I was very surprised to see that Fitness Plus now can work on Apple TV the normal way. But I'm not confident that this will last as I've had a few successes before and eventually it would just stop working as usual.

Excellent, didn’t get a chance to update you guys. Got the call back on Wednesday as scheduled, spend over an hour with support who was also on with an engineer. They first started, following a log from phone and watch that was provided to them on Monday), to ask me to remove an app from my phone which they thought was interfering the connection. After noticing that it didn’t work, they had me clear all my network settings which also didn’t work. Then we went on installing a profile on my phone, watch and apple tv which I can only assume was also logging what was happening with the fitness app. They also asked me to video what was going on. Ended up sending new logs of phone, watch and apple tv along with the video. They will be looking at all this data and call me again Sunday night…until then, keeping fingers crossed for a solution.

if you still have the issue and havent called in, please do :)

will keep you posted on what happens next

rcrobinson,

Thanks for following up and confirming all your devices are updated to the latest software versions. From here, the next best step is to reach out to Apple Support directly. The link below will help you get started:

Contact Apple Support

Take care!

I have this same problem with a brand new apple tv 4k. i can control the apple tv with the watch, even airplay fitness+ from my phone to the apple tv which even give you the stats on the top left of the screen as it would on my ipad/phone but launching the fitness+ app on the apple tv does not work. i get a connect button on the watch but pressing it has no effect.

I have spend 3 hours with apple support and fitness+ engineering yesterday and also sent diagnostic data for both the watch and the phone/screenshots, hopefully they will find the problem and permanently correct.

Hi. Same issue for me started a couple of weeks ago, tried the unpairing the apple watch and worked for a few days, now basically unusable on the Apple TV as you have no idea how long this takes. This is definitely a fitness plus issue as I have 2 Apple TV's and have the same issue on both and I know the Apple watch is connecting to the tv via bluetooth as I can control it from the watch. I really do they sort this out soon.

Well not much of an update and not sure what to make from my call with Apple yesterday. First they thanked me for all the hours and logs that they were able to get from my devices, apparently was very useful and that engineerings working on it. They said a fix would done via an update. I asked which device and when and could not get an answer. Was told that if problem persists or is resolved with an update to call them since my incident will remain open Apple.

Guess for now i’ll wait for an update and report back to them. I’ve written down my current versions and will periodically check if It got updated (automatically) or if (manual) an update is available.

I would still recommend who hasn’t called it in yet to do so. The more calls they get, the more serious they’ll see this is.

I have the same issue as well, after I accept my watch to connect to Apple TV Fitness +, it takes like 2 minutes+ before all to available workouts shows up. This started when the new features were added (time for run, collections, etc). My phone, watch and apple tv have the latest os on them and also shutdown and restarted all 3 devices and problem is still present. AppleTV 4K (15.2), Apple Watch Series 6 (8.3) and iPhone 11 Pro (15.2)

I have been having this issue for weeks. In fact, mine has been in the “Confirm on your Apple Watch…” loading screen for over 20-minutes as I write this. It started at least a few weeks ago. At first it was annoying, maybe a minute or two to connect. Since January 6, 2022 (I know because I recorded it) it takes more than 10-minutes every time. All of my software is up to date. The only “workaround” I have found is workouts on my iPhone or iPad work almost instantly (like the Apple TV had for about a year) — I do a 20-minute workout on the iPad and if I’m lucky, the Apple TV connects by the time I finish for a Mindful Cooldown. Today I started to connect at 7:10 am ET (verified on Nest Cam), and as I post this at 7:36 am ET, it is still connecting. This is 100% an error in Apple’s software somewhere between the TV and the Watch (because it doesn’t affect the iPad or iPhone Fitness Plus workouts). Please share if anyone gets a solution or Apple acknowledges it is a known error that they are fixing with a software update. Thank you!