Every morning, my watch has become a battle for my watch to recognize standing, or any exercise. The heart rate doesn’t pickup when it does connect to the Peloton app, but to even get it to connect I have to do a hard restart. Eventually it starts working and then is fine, but it takes almost an hour for it to start working correctly.
Apple Watch Series 9, watchOS 26
You say every morning - are you charging it overnight? I've noticed that my activity rings freeze now whenever I charge my watch - when I take it off the charger, I have to force restart the watch, and then wait about 10 minutes for the rings to "wake up" again. Happened once I upgraded to the latest watchOS that was released about a week ago.
To the reply already posted, I've unpaired and repaired the watch and that did solve the problem - but the long-term answer for this bug can not possibly be unpairing and re-pairing every single time the watch gets charged!
If it was myself, I would unpair the watch from the iPhone, reboot the iPhone then pair the watch back setting it up as new.
I am having similar issues ever since iOS 26 update. Very frustrating. Heart rate will not work, watch will not connect to peloton, and cannot start a workout on Apple Watch workout. I have unpaired and pm the. Paired my watch three times, and that temporarily resolves the issues, but one or two days later, same issues return. Have to say this update has been very disappointing. Minimal added benefits and significant issues. What is going on Apple? Many users rely on heart rate, workout app and peloton integration.
I am so glad to know it’s not just me!! I am having the exact same issues. I thought it was a Peloton bike issue initially but I have done a lot of trouble shooting and it’s definitely a watch update issue. My activity rings don’t register, my heart rate won’t display, and my watch freezes when trying to do a workout from watch. Hopefully this glitch will be fixed soon.
I'm having this exact same problem. Activity rings will not activate in the morning after overnight charging. Activity rings will not count stand hours, steps, calorie burn, etc. unless I start a workout.
Regarding the Peloton app, I'm also having this issue. I'll start a workout on my phone and the watch will not launch the Peloton app. If I try to manually start the Peloton app on the phone the Peloton app will start, spin, and then close itself.
I have to restart the watch, close the apps, restart the app on the watch, usually shutdown and restart the phone 2-3 times and then eventually the Peloton app will sync.
I've unpaired and restored the watch once already and I'm still having the same problem.
What is going on???
I did that and it fixed it for that day but the same thing again happened the next day.
Same here. Had to restart twice today to get the activity rings to start working.
watch fitness not working since update
