Pausing during workout

I have seen posts of other users having this issue. I have verified that the pause workout automatically has been turned off. The watch is snug on my wrist and I was wearing a tank top so my close were not bumping buttons. It seemed almost motion was pausing the workout. I would look at the watch see that it was paused- put it back in motion, put my wrist down and aprox 30 sec later it paused. This happened consecutively for the last 5 minutes of my workout. It was very distracting.

Posted on Jul 22, 2021 8:08 PM

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Posted on Jul 22, 2021 8:21 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


If you still need help, contact Apple Support.


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Jul 22, 2021 8:21 PM in response to mariebloss

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


If you still need help, contact Apple Support.


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