Perhaps since the release of the original iPhone, the Apple Watch is the Cupertino-based company’s biggest product. The Apple Watch is seemingly the only smartwatch to “stick” and for good reason with its ability to triage notifications and help keep you healthy.
That’s right. The Apple Watch is absolutely phenomenal for keeping track of your health stats and workouts. But from time to time, you may end up accidentally recording a workout that wasn’t really a workout. In those instances, you’ll need to know how to remove workouts from your Apple Watch. watchOS 6 makes it easy to accomplish this with a few easy steps.
How to remove workouts from your Apple Watch
Thankfully, the process for removing workouts from your Apple Watch is pretty cut and dry. All you will need is your iPhone, as in order to do so, you will need to access the Health app. Here are the steps you need to take to remove workouts from your Apple Watch and Health data.
Open the Health app on your iPhone
Tap the Browse tab at the bottom of the app
Scroll, find, and tap on the workout you want to remove
Under Options, select Show All Data
Tap the Edit button at the top
Press the (-) button to delete the workout
Confirm
After you have deleted the workout, this will also be removed from the Activity portion of the Watch app. While Apple makes some things convoluted and difficult, there are other “problems” that can be remedied easily.
In fact, there is another way to remove workouts, provided that you have your iPhone handy. Here is another method to remove workouts:
Open the Activity app on your iPhone
Tap on the Workouts tab
Swipe left on a workout to delete itAs is the case with using the Health app, you will want to swipe the workout all the way to the left until the red delete button appears. This will ensure that you are actually deleting the workout and won’t have to worry about it appearing in your stats any longer.
Before the workout is finally removed, your iPhone will provide you a prompt with a couple of choices. You can remove just the workout, but keep the data, or you can remove both the workout and the data. When choosing the latter, your Activity Rings and possible Achievements will be affected and reduced.
Conclusion
The Apple Watch is such a phenomenal device, that we aren’t sure how Apple will be able to keep the hype up with the rumored release of the Series 5. The Watch Series 4 is a fantastic option for those who work out on a regular basis, those who want to start hitting the gym, or those who just want to triage notifications.
Sound off in the comments below if you run into any issues with deleting your workouts, and we’ll be more than happy to help out. In the meantime, let us know what features you think Apple will pack into the Series 5 if it actually launches this Fall.
Andrew is a freelance writer based on the East Coast of the US.
He has written for a variety of sites over the years, including iMore, Android Central, Phandroid, and a few others. Now, he spends his days working for an HVAC company, while moonlighting as a freelance writer at night.
How do you remove workouts you won’t use? I hate scrolling through all the walking and elliptical work outs I’ll never ever use. This is making miss my fitbit
Make sure you open the Health app then go to Summary (tap the heart icon once or twice). Then go to workouts and scroll all the way down the page to locate Show All Data.
That then should show all your workouts, including swimming. Swipe right to delete a single workout.
For the raise to wake features,
Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.
Tap Display & Brightness, then tap Always On
Turn on Always On
Then, go to General > Wake Screen
Turn on Wake Screen on Wrist Raise (if it’s already on, toggle it off, wait, and toggle back on)
I think you are misreading that – the poster (and me) wants to delete an activity, not a workout.
I do not use an eliptical among other things, and don’t want to see them as choices in a long list of activities to track. I would like to dlelete, or hide this, as well as a few others and cannot find anyway to do so.
thoughts?
On the iWatch, open the Workout app, swipe left on the app and red X will appear to delete it. If you accidentally delete one you really wanted to keep, scroll to the bottom to Add Workout.
On the iWatch, open the Workout app, swipe left on the workout and a red X will appear to delete it. If you accidentally delete one you really wanted to keep, scroll to the bottom to Add Workout.
By mistake instead of starting an Outdoor Cycle Workout by mistake I deleted the Outdoor Cycle Workout App . The data is still there but the Outdoor Cycle App is gone. How do I restore the deleted Outdoor Cycle App? Please help!
I tried adding a custom workout (other). I found the timing was not sufficiently granular (need seconds). Now I want to remove it. This doesn’t help.
/s/jr
How do you remove workouts you won’t use? I hate scrolling through all the walking and elliptical work outs I’ll never ever use. This is making miss my fitbit
I forgot to stop my workout and now I have a 3-hour workout. There’s no option to swipe left. Any other ideas???
Followed your instructions on deleting an activity, such as Swimming, on my Apple watch.,
But after clicking on all options on the health app on my iPhone, it says no options.
Also, no edit button and no exercises listed.
My watch was just purchased a month ago and is updated.
I love the watch especially for workout data but I only want to display 3 or 4 exercises.
Also, my wrist lifts to see the screen quit working.
Hi Jimbo,
Make sure you open the Health app then go to Summary (tap the heart icon once or twice). Then go to workouts and scroll all the way down the page to locate Show All Data.
That then should show all your workouts, including swimming. Swipe right to delete a single workout.
For the raise to wake features,
Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.
Tap Display & Brightness, then tap Always On
Turn on Always On
Then, go to General > Wake Screen
Turn on Wake Screen on Wrist Raise (if it’s already on, toggle it off, wait, and toggle back on)
I think you are misreading that – the poster (and me) wants to delete an activity, not a workout.
I do not use an eliptical among other things, and don’t want to see them as choices in a long list of activities to track. I would like to dlelete, or hide this, as well as a few others and cannot find anyway to do so.
thoughts?
On the iWatch, open the Workout app, swipe left on the app and red X will appear to delete it. If you accidentally delete one you really wanted to keep, scroll to the bottom to Add Workout.
On the iWatch, open the Workout app, swipe left on the workout and a red X will appear to delete it. If you accidentally delete one you really wanted to keep, scroll to the bottom to Add Workout.
There is no list of workouts when browsing on the app.
By mistake instead of starting an Outdoor Cycle Workout by mistake I deleted the Outdoor Cycle Workout App . The data is still there but the Outdoor Cycle App is gone. How do I restore the deleted Outdoor Cycle App? Please help!