"Seems like you've stopped. Finish workout?"

[Jusson90]

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.

I need help.

[LongHiker]

@Becca2930 To turn off auto detect of activities:

1. Swipe down on the watch face
2. Click the gear icon to open settings
3. Click on Health
4. Turn off "Activities to detect"

[Becca2930]

Thanks for your help

[Ranwill84]

Solution is as follows - "check and update the software to 6.0 and turn off  wrist detection in watch settings >security and privacy> wrist detection."

[owenmiller84]

I can't find this anywhere

[realaud]

what the settings to keep the screen on during workouts?  If you have the exercise tile on your watch, scroll to the tile.  You have four icons (3 favorite exercises and the menu). Tap the "more" menu and then scroll to the exercise you want to see the settings for.  Then when that exercise is centered on the screen, there is text that says "settings".  Tap the settings and scroll way down.  You will see the option to keep screen on during workouts.  I believe that setting it for one exercise will populate it for all, but if it does not, you will have to repeat the action for each exercise you use.  If you do not use/have the exercise tile on your watch, open the health app *on the watch* and scroll to "exercises", you will see the same ribbon of exercises and you would follow the instructions above.

[squawk7600]

This is why this topic is marked solved? Because the buck got passed to someone else?
Yet, a few updates after the original post, the problem still persists. In fact, seems like people complained about this issue with previous models of Galaxy Watch.
I'm seriously thinking that I will not ever upgrade to any new version of Galaxy Watch until enough customers can confirm that it is no-longer a problem.
Honestly, it's like Samsung doesn't give a **bleep**.

[realaud]

Well, whatever the problem is, I don't have it.  My workouts complete.  I now have a GW7 with OneUI 6.0 and it still does not happen for me. I've done walking & swimming workouts since I got the watch and have not seen this problem. So, it seems like a number of people *are* having the problem, I think the majority are not.  If you feel that the workouts stop because the workout screen hides behind the clock face after the screen times out, may I suggest adjusting the workout settings to keep the screen always on during the workout.  It's in the exercise settings on the watch.  It may or may not help, but it's worth a try.

[MrMarkSS]

I am having the same problem on my Galaxy Watch Ultra.  I've called Samsung support THREE times, they created a ticket and escalated this issue, they told me it was an obvious bug with the last update. 

I was told it would be fixed within a day or two, that was THREE days ago!  I didn't pay $600 for a smart watch when you can't even log a workout!  This is terrible on Samsung's part.

FIX the bug!!!!

[realaud]

Three whole days?  Wow, they didn't give it an instant fix and push it to your watch? Do you realize that it's not that simple to re-code for an error? First, they have to identify the bad code, write new code, make sure it doesn't interfere with any other workings and then test it to make sure the fix is consistent. You would prefer they fix *that* issue and break something else?

[weswhite]

I just bought the new galaxy 6 classic watch and ran with it today and this continue to pop up. I bought this watch to help train for a 10k if I cant get a response to fix it the watch it going back and I'm just getting a fit bit.