Apple Watch not counting outdoor walk exercise

Mine was solved by re-enabling all the location services for calibration etc, then turning off both iPhone and watch, then turning on iPhone first, then watch....then going for a walk while holding the iPhone for the first 15 minutes. The route map and walk were both recorded. You do have to walk at a good pace, though.

try going to settings, general and turn OFF workout power saving mode. Has worked for me in the past.

Okay everyone. Yesterday I tightened my watch on my watch on my left left wrist and set the watch for out door workout. I pushed my stroller with my right hand and swung my left arm. It worked!

Today I changed my settings to wear the watch on my right wrist and swing my left arm. It worked.

One thing I can’t figure out is how to do is have the map/route show on the watch or my iPhone or both. Can anyone help me?

I’ve been having the same problem with the outdoor walk exercise not crediting me with workout minutes. It’s really strange but when I went to the iwatch app on my iPhone and clicked on Health and then edit, I was immediately credited with those minutes!

I’ve had this problem for months and this is the first time I’ve been allocated outdoor walk as an exercise. So give it a go.

Hey guys, I have experimented a bit with using the "Outdoor Run" setting instead of "outdoor walk" even when I am walking. It SEEMS to credit more minutes in that setting! It also records the distance and the route etc. just like the outdoor walk setting. Another nice thing about the Outdoor Run setting is that you can enable "auto pause". So, if you stop to admire the scenery or have to stop at a traffic light to cross street, etc., the workout will automatically pause for you to get a better time indication.

Please try it out and see if you like it better.

My watch is new and it doesn't count my walks. I should state that it sees my workout, counts heart rate, calories, distance etc. but does not apply towards closing my ring. This stinks. When I got home I sat on the sofa and started a workout as "other" for the same 26 min and it accepted. Next time I walk I will use other as my workout not outdoor walk.

Nope! Mine doesn’t work properly either. I can hike for hours and get about 10 minutes of credit. I use the Play workout now and that works fine.

Apple should recalibrate Outdoor Walk.

By wearing my watch consistently, it learned how I walk and my usual movements. Now, when I walk using the Outdoor Walk Open Goal, it registers my time, even though my route usually shows yellow, and not the brisk walk green. This is when the workout shows that I'm walking a 17-18 minute mile.

The play workout is amazing! It's in the workout app somewhere; you don't need to download it. I think I found it as an option when I selected the 'Other' workout, but it now appears at the top of the list.

Like others on here, I can't do what my watch thinks is a 'brisk walk'. I have arthritis and I'm over 60. I was getting pretty discouraged after walking several miles and getting five minutes' credit at the end of it. Then I tried the Play app.

This amazing workout credited me with my green ring whatever speed I managed to walk. Then I fell asleep in a armchair having forgotten to stop the workout and it still credited me with even more minutes. So it seems to me that Play is the one that trusts my judgment instead of telling me I have of behave like a twenty year old fit person to get my green ring. Love it!

If you go back to page 1 of this thread and look through the first 3-5 posts you will read about the work-around. It works but you apparently lose the map of your outdoor walk/run and you also apparently lose the distance you went.

So a pretty poor work-around. Seems Apple should spend some of the $31,970,000,000 in cash they were holding at the end of June 2018 to fix this issue.

It's not like this is an obscure feature of the watch either. "Intelligent activity tracking" is one of the featured things they tout when you go to Apple Watch Series 3 - Apple. For it to not "just work" feels like false advertising to someone who just shelled out $360+ on this watch.

I just got an Apple Watch 3 and am having this same issue. Called support and they couldn’t figure out the problem. Only told me how to do the work around. Which is ridiculous. Does anyone know how to get outdoor walk to credit as exercise??

I'm having the same problem, and it used to work fine. I take the same walk on my lunch break every day. So it's not that I'm not walking hard enough to get credit. It's literally the same walk I've taken every day for 2 years, and it used to give me credit for the whole thing on outdoor walk. I agree with everyone else. I don't want a workaround. This an expensive device and it should work properly. What I'd like to hear is that they're going to do an update to fix this problem. It's frustrating me. I'm pregnant, and I want credit for my exercise!

I just completed a 36-minute, 18.29”/mile outdoor open walk and only 25 minutes registered. I have to believe that counts as a brisk walk for a 62 year old who’s Pooh sized. Should I just go with “Other”?