I tried to use my ipad Fitness+ app for a cycling workout today and it said my Watch (6) needed an update, "Fitness+ is not available with your current version of watchOS on your Apple Watch". Watch is fully up to date on Updates. iPad (7th gen wifi) is up to date. I've tried restarting both, any suggestions?
iPad (6th gen) WiFi
I could be WAY off here and I don't use Fitness+, but... Your watch should be paired to your iPhone and I believe that you would need to start the Fitness+ workout from your phone.
After you're done with the workout, I'm sure that you could see the results in the Fitness+ app on your iPad because of synchronizations across your Apple ID.
This was another time where I came into the thread, read their question, hit refresh, didn't see any replies, then started sliding my thumbs across the keyboard of my phone. Finished up, hit "Post" and... There was already a reply posted. This time it was your again, lol.
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There was nothing wrong with your post. They seem to have an issue because they were being told their Apple Watch 6 needed an update, but believe they are up to date. I suspect they aren't, but won't know until we get a response.
So you started the workout on what device? It's pretty new to iPad to have access to Fitness+ and I haven't even tried it myself. So, it might make more sense for you to contact Apple directly for guidance. If you're in the US, you can call them directly at: 800-MY-APPLE
Yes, I've done it for a couple years. Start the workout on the ipad and it will sync with my watch. (I use the ipad as a display.) It's just odd it stopped working. I'll give them a call. Thanks!
I ended up calling Apple. I restarted my ipad and the app wouldn't load once trying to open (it was the only app with this problem). So I removed the app, redownloaded it, same problem. Did a hard reset, not luck. Called Apple and we reset the network, no luck, then backed up the ipad and completely wiped it clean. Opened it and synced with phone and loaded the back up, now it works!
Took a couple of hours to trouble shoot, backup and reboot, but app now loads and watch syncs!
What is the WatchOS version you are running on your Apple Watch? The current version is WatchOS 9.3.
What you have described is not way off and is how it should work. The issues I am asking about above is if the watch is indeed updated to the most current WatchOS 9.3 version.
I'm running 9.3 on my watch and 16.3 on the ipad.
kfuller12,
Please let us know what you come up with so that we can help others that may come here with a similar issue.
Thank you :-D
Thanks for coming back and letting us know the "fun" you had getting it working again.
Wow!! I hope he 👆 got all of that because it was certainly above my pay grade!
I'll simplify it.
A backup/restore of the iPad was the trick!
iPad Fitness+ not syncing with Watch
