Apple Watch SE not detecting gym equipment

I’m on the Ultra 2 and now the watch won’t connect to Planet Fitness equipment. The PF equipment will beep like it’s connecting and then keep beeping forever without actually connecting. Only way to get the equipment to stop beeping is to unplug it.

I’m on 10.5

I’m on the release version of 10.5 and this just popped up on my S.05 AW.

I haven’t been able to find much information about it elsewhere.

Just got same message this morning at GYM. I'm clueless here. The watch actually detected gym equipment or is this in reference to body movement like you were on an elliptical and would ask you to record a workout, for example.

Same!!!

My Apple Watch SE automatically upgraded itself to watchOS 17.5 a couple of days ago. Today I opened the workout app for the first time since the upgrade and got the message. I was standing outside my house and was preparing to go for a walk around my neighborhood, so no gym equipment or anything else that I am aware of with an NFC chip, unless it was a credit card or something.

As you are using Beta Software, this could be the reason.

The official watchOS 10.5 has been released and you should remove the Beta and install the official version.

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It looks to related to the last update. Go to you watch on your phone , pick workout and make sure detect gym equipment is toggled on.

Under the OS Version drop down menu, options only go up to 10.4. Since it is not a required field, I left this box at the default option and indicated that I am on WatchOS 10.5 in the comments section. Hope this helps anyone else submitting feedback.

Mine is an Ultra. I tried it on my PF, and it didn't even beep. The people that work there have no idea how to even connect the Apple Watch to any of their machines they have that connect to wearable. I decided to go to a different PF that has the newer Matrix treadmills that actually has the "connect to Apple Watch". signage on the machine and all it did was beep constantly. Never got it to connect. I'm also on the latest update, but I never attempted to connect with a previous version.

I have the same issue for weeks now. Whenever I tap the watch to the machine, the equipment starts to beep endlessly and you have to unplug it to make it stop. Talking to the staff is pointless since nothing happens. Obviously the machines need updates but no one will address it. My suggestion would be to make all machines beep so that PF will get forced to do something about it.

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