Fitness Focus Turning itself off each night, Not turning on for workout

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Fitness Focus Turning itself off each night, Not turning on for workout

Since turning on ‘Workout App’ > Low power mode ‘ON’ for my Apple Watch, in the iPhone app, My fitness ‘Focus’ stopped working when I start a workout and the toggle for the ‘Turn on focus when you start a workout’ alway turns itself off each night. Thus when I start a workout the focus does not turn on into ‘Do not disturb mode'; It was working correctly until I turned on Low power mode because my watch battery was dying from doing a workout.

I tried deleting the focus and recreating it, Same issue, Every morning its turned off.

I submitted a feedback FB11887664, ID really like this anyone bug fixed? What else could be causing this?

The only other thing I did recently is toggle a few times on Apple Watch in Settings > Battery > Battery Health > Optimised Battery Charging on and off.

Apple Watch SE

Posted on Dec 20, 2022 1:25 PM

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scienceboy Author

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Dec 22, 2022 2:37 PM in response to scienceboy

I spoke to Apple Support and they suggested to wipe my phone and restore from a backup and this seams to have fixed the issue. They said a fresh install of the operating system might fix the issue and it did for me.

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TPBajan

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Jan 19, 2023 1:23 PM in response to scienceboy

I suffer from this, too, and have created two automations in the Shortcuts app: one to turn Fitness focus on when I start any workout, then a second to turn it off when I end any workout. That should suffice until Apple decides to fix this particular bug.

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Jan 7, 2023 2:23 AM in response to scienceboy

Same for me on my Apple Watch Series 6 running watchOS 9.2 (20S361) + iPhone 12 Pro on iOS 16.1.2.

For what it’s worth, it’s the default Fitness focus mode that was created when focus modes were introduced. Enabling the option as seen in the screenshots makes it work for a (seemingly random) amount of time, but eventually I’ll start a workout and my phone & watch will _not_ be in Fitness focus anymore. Upon checking the option in the settings, it has then been disabled.

I don’t have any shortcuts or automations triggering when I start or stop a workout, and the type of workout does not seem to affect it.

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scienceboy Author

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Dec 27, 2022 2:44 PM in response to scienceboy

Actually the problem came back two days later after reinstalled the operating system and having to reconfigure all my apps. I don't recomend doing this. Didn't fix it

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Jan 7, 2023 7:17 AM in response to svenluijten

I have the same issue that the toggle for turning on the focus turns off nightly. Seems to correlate to updating phone to iOS 16.2 from 16.1 and the watch from watchOS 9.1 to 9.2.

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Jan 6, 2023 3:10 AM in response to scienceboy

I am experiencing the same issue. I do not have low power mode during a workout set to on. For me it started after upgrading from iOS 15.x to 16.2 and watchOS 8.x to 9.2. I did both on the same day so I’m not sure which upgrade is the culprit. This bug makes the feature practically useless! Hope Apple fixes it soon.

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SkunKd

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Jan 3, 2023 7:11 PM in response to scienceboy

Im having this same issue. I set fitness focus to turn on with workout and the next day it’s back to off. Super annoying!!!

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Fitness Focus Turning itself off each night, Not turning on for workout

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