How do I stop segments during a workout on Apple Watch?

Hi, I may have just found a workaround. I had the same problem, as you, and many others, and yesterday I probably got nine segment alerts in less than 50 feet of a run. Not sure if it works yet because I haven't used it in a real workout, but I remembered this ...

"Please for all that is holy give us the option to disable segments!," and couldn't agree more!

It's not perfect and I don't know if it will work if you're looking for exact times. I've tried it with Outdoor Walk and Outdoor Run, but not in a real workout, yet.

Go to Outdoor Walk or Run and open it.

Then hit the side button, not the crown dial. It takes you to the control screen.

Hit the water drop. It locks the screen.

To unlock the screen when you're done, hold the crown, and it will do that water ejection thing.

I won't know if it will give mile splits until tomorrow, I sure hope it does. My apologies if it doesn't work and I've wasted your time. I just remembered your post when I was trying to solve this yesterday after getting so many segment alerts that I wanted to slam my watch into the ground. It all happens because of my wet sleeve, it doesn't happen in the summertime.

Hope it helps, Tim

It is funny you mention this; the exact same thing happened to me this morning as I had a long sleeve shirt - I ended up with more than 20 segments (which I don’t need at all). Also, each time a drop of sweat lands on the watch it creates a segment - SO FREAKING RIDICULOUS!!!!

I had it with this watch - I just pull the trigger on a Garmin watch! So disappointing Apple!

I want my mile splits. I don’t want 13 segments I did not ask to track at all to pop up going up my final steep climb on my otherwise perfectly peaceful hike.

I don’t use segments I don’t want segments. I do want to mark my mile splits though. The two things being linked is a dumb foul word situation.

Yes using the water lock feature does work but you also can’t use anything else on the watch such as switches playlists or selecting a podcast without turning off the lock.

It is far from solved

I'm on 11.0.1 and it's definitely NOT fixed.

Hi! I tried these instructions and the issue remains. How come there isn’t a way to stop it all together!?! This is so upsetting! Every other workout ends up stopping because there are too many splits!! Help please !!

3x triple tap on the crown is my workaround for now. It's a mode you set in accessibility > Open the Watch app on the iPhone and go to Accessibility > Touch Accommodations · Turn on Hold Duration, set it to 1s or 2s (whatever you like). That allows me to access everything while working out using buttons, but screen touches need to be held for one second or two, which results in errorless workout tracking.

I submitted a request for this feature on the Apple Watch Feedback page. I ran into the unwanted segments issue today while trying to dismiss heart rate alerts that I set up during a HIIT workout (I have since turned them off).

I called apple and they have been useless on this. They also claimed it's not a known issue. I imagine most people here have reported it. I'm going to try and use the strava app.

This is very frustrating. I’m not super technical but I followed Some good advice here from the community. I have Ultra series and turned off splits. Within 5 minutes of a walk I got 9 split notifications. This just started happening. I hope there’s a bug fix. Unless I’m doing something wrong?

I just had the same thing happen on my brand new Ultra2 today—my first Apple watch ever. This bug ruined the very first run I took. I had no idea how long I had run, so I had to restart the workout about five times.

Before I, too, bail on Apple for a better sports watch, can anyone report whether a running app like Strava installed on the watch gets around this problem?

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I called Apple support about the segment problem and after a long wait and a disconnection, she called me back and told me that if you want if you don’t want segments you tap on the app if you want segments you have you tap twice so if you open the app and tap twice, that’s why you got segments. I hope this helps.

Today I was cycling to work and my apple watch created 11 segments out of nowhere.

I will try to use Strava instead Apple Workouts to make sure if the problem is the app or the watch, but for sure a lot of people here is having the same issue and Apple should take a look on it.

I couldn't agree more. As soon as I wear a rain jacket on a walk or hike I start getting ridiculous alerts and segment screens. Incredibly annoying and completely and totally useless. Today I had 17 segment alerts in less than ninety seconds - most of them for a single metre.