Apple Watch Not Connecting to Fitness + App on Apple TV HD (32 GB) Model:A1625.

It let me mirror the app to the tv and after that, when I connected to my Apple TV from the fitness app, it game me a different prompt to connect. Instead of a drop down from the top of my phone screen, it gave me a bubble prompt medium size in the middle of the screen which launched the app. Trying to connecting my watch still says I need to be connected to WiFi, which I am. So the rings won’t show up. The Apple TV app is working though.

The Fitness App on the Apple TV needs to connect to wifi through the iPhone paired to the Apple Watch, even if the Apple TV has wifi access. I upgraded my iPhone and the wifi connection was connected but not working. This caused the Apple Watch to not be able to connect to the Apple TV fitness app.

Reset the router to get the wifi connection working again.

I was having the same problem. What worked for me, is I changed the “Always On” setting to “On” (settings->display & brightness->always on).

After doing that, it connected to immediately and I was able to do workout.

Here Is the answer!

Unfortunately, I am going through this right now and the OS doesn’t seem to fix it

I’ve tried different WiFi bands

I've tried signing out and back in on the Apple TV thinking this was the issue. (It was not)

I have several Apple TV’s of varying system spec and versions I’ve attempted and the only thing that will work to bring your watch back on good terms with your fitness app is to reset it or unpair and then restore it from a backup. If you have this set to do a back up, you can unpair the device (which will reset it so you have to wait for it to do that) and then repair it with your iPhone. This does take a little bit of time and you might have to wait pending on your current battery of said Apple Watch or iPhone, but you won’t have to fuss with the Apple TV connecting within the fitness app.

I’d love if this issue got resolved since it’s been a problem for me on multiple occasions since I’ve gotten more Apple Watches than just the one in the 3 years this fitness app has been around wreaking havoc.

hope this helps!

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It’s really boring. Because I often have problem with connecting Apple Watch with Apple TV. And I do have multiple generation and not the same house.

Sometimes it work well. And sometimes it crash on the middle of the exercice….

on iPad and iPhone. No problem at all.

Too many bug with Apple TV

This situation happened when I upgraded my iPhone from a 12 Pro to a 15 Pro.

I had restored the phone and Apple Watch (6) from backups, and everything worked fine, until it didn’t.

After trying many time-intensive and unproductive tactics, I followed part of Montaz’s instructions:

Erase the Watch

Unpair, then re-pair, but do NOT restore from backup

Start fresh

Then follow the rest of Montaz’s steps:

Connect the watch to the AppleTV Fitness+ app

Open the Fitness+ app on your AppleTV

when it asks, "Who's working out?" choose "Other"

Open the Workout app on your Watch. It's the silhouette of a person on a lime-green background.

tap the Connect button on your watch.

you’ll be prompted for a passcode; enter it on the Watch

wait about 20 seconds or so to connect.

If successful, close the Fitness+ app, open it again and connect but selecting your watch instead of selecting "Other".

It should connect in under 10 seconds now, like normal.

After days of nothing else working and many hours lost, this nailed it within 30 minutes

Hmm. All those seem pretty extreme. First check that you don’t have multiple Apple TVs or Apple products in the same HomeKit room. For me it was two Apple TVs in the same HomeKit room. Just created a separate “room” and the watch showed up. I have a separate Apple TV on a monitor for a row machine.

This right here is the solution.

This solved the problem indeed. Hopefully this get solved in a future software update.

Check the version of Apple Watch you have in your software. If it isn’t a 7.2 or 16.1 or later then it’s now incompatible with the app and tv.

tried so may ways. Yours worked fine! Thanks

Yeah, it worked also in my case.

just after deleting users from Apple TV and restoring them again, Apple Watch became immediately detected by fitness+ app

👍🏼 this worked - thank you

I just got the iphone15 this weekend and since the. Fitness+ will not connect with my watch during a workout, it measures my movement, exercise and standing though

In your Apple TV disconnect the device that’s not working. Ie you’re Apple Watch. Then reconnect.