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

I assigned a shortcut to the orange action button. This way, when the button is pressed, it opens the shortcut which launches a menu, so if no menu item is selected, the shortcut just goes away and no segment alert is displayed.

To make things even tighter, I launch workouts from the menu in the shortcut that is assigned to the action button. The first menu item on that shortcut prompts to select a workout (e.g. Cross Training, Yoga, Run). The workout selection is followed by enabling water lock. This locks the dail and function buttons. This makes the phone unresponsive to any button or screen touch until the water lock is disabled.

I tried that, segments is “turned off” on my watch. This morning when I ran in cold weather a sleeve must have brushed across the watch and segments started going off anyway, including three that said “0 meters, 0 seconds.” I had to guesstimate my time and distance because this went on for 10 minutes. Luckily it was the end of my run. A major flaw in the watch for runners (that and the fact that it is very difficult at times to stop your time at the end of a hot, sweaty run)

This does not work. Take the segments off the app. They are so annoying during my workouts, to the point that I am contemplating getting rid of my Apple watch. It feels like the people that made this feature don’t really work out.

The same thing happens to me - when it rains, it is a mess! it even stop the whole activity. So useless!

I live in a circle which is half mile for a circle, I walk 8 circles which is 4 miles, last two days my watch tells me that I walk only 2.65 miles?

My watch gives me random segment splits when cycling. Even 6 feet sections. Very helpful🤔

That appears to work for cycling, which I haven't had any problem with, but I don't see it for outdoor walk or run. I only have problems with those two.

At least now I know in case I do have segment problems with cycling. Regardless, thanks for the info.

Thanks! I was able to turn off segments and when I scrolled down to preferences I was able to choose "include heart rate zone" for hiking workout. I spent half on hour on the phone with AppleCare trying to find out how to do that (turn on heart rate zone on the watch.) They said it couldn't be done.

I have exactly the same problem. I called Apple support 3-4 times on the issue when it was watchOS 10. Now with watchOS 11 the problem is still there. My sleeve skips music tracks, drops segment marks and today (a whole new experience) it checked in with my friend during the workout!for all the buzz words machine learning andAI Apple is totally impotent to solve this annoying problem!

new years day resolution get fit again

let’s use the new Apple Watch I got a month ago

start workout

38 sec in segment one paused

reset start again keeps happening

just want to watch my heart rate for half hour so I don’t overdo myself haha

sorry apple this new watch is busted my old series 4 is way better

Better mark your post solved to avoid people trying to help you as you have no problem.

I have the same exact issue! Please let us know how to disable this!!

Same here.

Just get a Garmin watch!!

Today's update is supposed to fix a "false touch" issue some users are having, so maybe this problem has been addressed.