As the subject and location suggests, my watch during the middle of a workout has started repeatedly pausing the workout and saying "Seems like you've stopped. Finish workout?" And it does not matter how much I'm moving, how high my heart rate is, or how many times I tell it to resume. The watch did not do this last month and it does not matter what workout I'm doing. Whether I'm walking, running, lifting weights, rowing, doing a dynamic workout, about every 20 seconds to 2 minutes this notification pops up.
I've done everything I can from restarting the watch, resetting the watch, checking for updates, going into each exercise choice and turning off "Auto Pause", going into the settings and turning off "Activities to detect" on both the phone Samsung Health app and in the watch. I've even called Samsung tech support and the man I talked to was saying that it must be an app causing it but i've turned off all app notifications except messaging apps.
The only thing I can think that might be going on is I cannot change "Auto detect workouts" in the Advanced option of the Samsung Health app settings.
Turn off the wrist detection. On the watch not the app. I did it a week ago and it has stopped with that stupid notification. Go to settings on the watch and then go to security and privacy and turn off wrist detection. Saved me from smashing this thing into oblivion. Samsung needs to remove the notification, but this is working for now.
Just a Temp fix that worked for me (S3 Frontier watch) use "Other Workout". Has yet to Auto pause and I have sat at my desk typing without pausing for +30 mins before stopping the workout to test.
When recording workout watch constantly stops and message comes up "seems like you've finished. Stop workout?". Super annoying. I have a galaxy watch 4. What corrected for me was to install 6.0 software. Then I disabled the wrist detection setting ( only can be done on the watch itself) settings>security and privacy>wrist detection. If you have wrist detection then you probably don't need 6.0 but if you don't then you will need to download it.
My workouts auto pause if I stop. If I stop for too long, it will ask if I'm done. Not sure of the pause period, but im never really bothered by it, because if i get the message and im not done, I just start moving. If I am done, I ignore it and the routine ends. You don't want it to be in standby while you wait 10 minutes for a treadmill to be free. If you are outdoors biking , running or ealking and waiting for a traffic signal, just tell rhe watch you are not done you can turn on auto pause from within the workout screen in the health app.
The issue is it does it when y I am not stopped. Does it constantly. Multiple times in a minute which is really annoying. It is because I have tattoos which messes with the sensor. Known issue with galaxy watch
Oh okay I don't have tattoos but the turning off wrist detection has been around for quite a while for people with tattoos. I did not realize that it also affected the workouts.
Makes sense. Wasn't sure if that was available with the 4. The biggest issue is this only started with a recent update and there isn't one post that says to disable. It has been a couple months now so not sure what Samsung did when that update came out but from what I can tell anyone with tattoos got **bleep**.
