Workout app on Apple Watch is missing!

I am not seeing the Workout app in the App Store at all.

It is on my phone but only on my Apple Watch settings, showing as if it should be on my watch. But isn't. Anyone have any thoughts or solutions? I've called apple and they were useless.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/workout/id1584215851

Open this link on your phone

This was driving me crazy for weeks and all of the answers on the internet seem to be, “just download it from the App Store.” Cool, thanks, can’t find it on the watch store though. But I finally got it:

1. Find the workout app on your iPhone App Store. It will tell you that it can only be downloaded on the watch.
2. Click the share icon
3. Send the link to yourself in a text message
4. Open your messages on your watch and click the link
5. It should open the App Store on your watch and voilà, the workout app.

Thank you so much for this! I have been trying to figure this out for a while and this was the only thing that worked!!

This worked for another user with exactly the same problem 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

See:

How do I reload the workout app on my wat… - Apple Community

Please refer to Download apps on your Apple Watch, which lists the steps how to "Get apps with the iPhone that's paired with the Apple Watch," and "If you can't find an app."

Thank you so much - only thing that has worked for me so far!!

Amazing! This worked exactly as you stated. Was driving me crazy! I appreciate you taking the time to share with others.

I had the same problem, although the watch was still collecting and sending the data to the phones fitness app. What I did was, on the watch, open the App Store then search for the workout fitness app, I had to scroll down a bit passed all the other workout apps, you will see the familiar coloured circles, then just click the cloud icon to re-download it.

I couldn’t find the app anywhere in the App Store, even by searching, but once you finally do find it in the App Store (using that link, recopied here for convenience)https://apps.apple.com/us/app/workout/id1584215851 , it says it’s only for Apple Watch so email it to yourself. AND THEN… use your Apple Watch to open the link in the email that you sent yourself which does download it back to your watch.

I had to open the link on my phone, then text it to myself and open the text in my watch in order to accomplish this. But that did work.

Late response but saw no solution so I’m writing it here. I had the same issue where my Apple Watch settings said it was installed but I couldn’t find it at all.

Fixed it by sending the link of the workout app through messages from my iPhone and opened it on my watch.

Ended up directing me to the App Store and I re-downloaded the app and now it appears. Hope this helps!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/workout/id1584215851

Thank you for sharing this link https://apps.apple.com/us/app/workout/id1584215851. Its easier to open the link on you apple watch by copying the link above into a message on your iPhone that you send to yourself. Open the message on your apple watch. This will bring you to the app store where you can download the app onto your watch.

Or you can simple open the app store on your watch type or speak the workout app and download.

This works! Open the link on phone then share via text - open text on watch. Thank you so much!