Workout icon greyed out on Apple Watch Series 7

I am having an issue with my workout icon on my iWatch 7, the icon is greyed out. As per the previous recommendation from one of your Apple experts, I restarted both my iPhone and iWatch, but this didn’t correct the issue. Any other suggestions please?

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Apple Watch Series 7, watchOS 11

Posted on Dec 30, 2024 2:39 PM

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Posted on Dec 30, 2024 2:43 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try (which I believe you already have) if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to 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


As a last resort, follow the above procedure for unpairing and pairing the watch, but do not restore the backup. Set the watch up as new instead. There should be no loss of Fitness data or Awards since those are stored on the paired iPhone, not the watch.


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Dec 30, 2024 2:43 PM in response to Lars1953

The first (and simplest) thing to try (which I believe you already have) if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to 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


As a last resort, follow the above procedure for unpairing and pairing the watch, but do not restore the backup. Set the watch up as new instead. There should be no loss of Fitness data or Awards since those are stored on the paired iPhone, not the watch.


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Workout icon greyed out on Apple Watch Series 7

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