How to disable "are you sure" question when you end a workout?

It is an extra step. The “new workout” button was there previously on the menu when the Apple Watch screen was swiped right, along with pause and end. It’s a poor feature that should have the ability to be disabled.

Kenneth Karnes wrote:

I do... but I'm a rarity, and my Garmin has more workout-specific functionality and the AW is intermittent on HR tracking... but.. the UI on AW is just better- for me.

The Watch Ultra can be intermittent because it is too heavy for athletes IMO. 40mm SE is ideal

lol omg I thought it was just me! Did they also move the end workout button? Because I keep accidentally adding a new segment instead of ending the workout so it ends up being THREE clicks for me 🤣🤣🤣 I get so annoyed every time but forgot to google it until now, and most search results that came up were people complaining about how their watch keeps asking if they want to end workout.

I just read the double tap or Siri workarounds. I never use Siri but I’ll try the double tap method next time, if I don’t end up accidentally adding two segments instead lol.

As always, the Apple apologists are here to convince you that the Apple way is the best way.

Traditionally, Apple decides what you will do and that’s it. Eventually, they realize that the customer is right and then provide options.

This is one of those situations where having the option to disable the “are you sure?” Would be the correct way to go.

Apple may be too arrogant to grant their users this level of immense customization, but maybe we can hope.

I have no problem with people describing how this feature makes sense for some applications. Provided that alternate views are accepted as well. This thread shows that there is at least a small group of people who don't like the new behavior of the workout app and are annoyed enough to document it in this forum. They even provided a potential "hack" to get around the extra tap. As posted previously I myself do not like it.

Apple's policy of silence certainly makes it seem like they don't care (as opposed to being arrogant :) ). I do not believe Apple developers are trying to stick it to us, and we don't have enough insight into the app to make the assertions as to Apple's reasons for this implementation. All we can speak properly about is our experiences with Apple devices & software.

So why, LD150, were you so vehemently against the suggestion that the extra button press was a design misstep?

You’ve certainly changed your tune, e.g.

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I actually have waited a few weeks... Googled to see if there was a way to turn it off and found this thread....

I see that it could be useful if you happen to have bumped it one time on an important workout and lost your data, but as an every time question... What is this Windows 95!

This really needs put into a settings function... If I mess up and bump end workout oh darn woe is me... One of my workouts is not correct, but sure beats having to press end Yes every single time for the rest of my usage.

If I am doing a 5k or 10k I probably would want that on.. But only then. Its not needed everyday.

I also don’t like the extra step + being over 60, the tiny red text is really difficult to read. They have the whole screen to use, why crunch it down to small targets and small fonts? Red also implies something is wrong, confirming an action should be green.

I HATE this new feature. At first I didn't recognize it, and now I still continually forget.

I record and log my workout times religiously. Now they are constantly getting messed up by the watch continuing to run because I forgot about the extra step.

MAKE IT STOP.

KalK wrote:

The difference is that the workout actually ended with the first tap. The Done was to confirm you have seen the summary and done with it. You didn’t actually even have to click on it unless you want to start a new workout the same time. After a while it used to automatically reset back as if you clicked Done.

Yes I know, just give it til next week, ok?

I absolutely loathe this addition. And the placement of “new workout”?? Why? Who thought that was helpful? Just lost a PR because I was tired and my muscles were wiped out. At least let me roll back this update….

Ok, while I was annoyed by the feature at first I realized it would probably have solved the many frustrating running workouts in the winter where my jacket or long sleeve shirt turned the workout recording off without my realizing it.

Now the "are you sure" confirmation is gone in the recent update. I saw a message saying it was off by default and if you wanted to turn it back on go to X. But I can't remember what it said for X. And I'll be darned if I can find how to turn it back on. Googling brings up thread after thread about the reminder thing that I'm not looking for. And all these threads about disabling the feature I want to enable.

Anyone know where to ENABLE it?