Auto Detect workout

[Woofie2010]

Hello,

I just got my very first Apple Watch a series 8, however I cant figure out how auto detects works. Today, I manually started an outdoor walk, and then I had to pause it, I then started walking again for another 40mins without realising that I hadn't resume the work out. I dont know if it didn't autodect that I had started walking again because I had manually started the workout, or because I have low power mode to automatically turn on when I start a workout.



Coming from a Samsung Watch that would still autodect pause/start when I manually started the workout.



If low power is the issue, will it still prompt me to start the workout? As low power doesn't turn on until a workout is active.

 

[Nikhil72]

Auto detect will only work to initiate the workout; there is a setting to auto pause a workout (run/walk) if you stop moving. In that situation, it will auto resume when you start moving again.l It would work with or without LPM. It sounds like the latter feature is the one you need enabled.

 

[Nina Rosso]

Auto-Pause works only for Running and Outdoor Cycling. You have to activate that: go on your phone to watch app, Workout, Auto-Pause and turn the sliders on for Auto-Pause, Running and/or Outdoor Cycling. It detects when you have started a running or cycling workout and then, after a few minutes, asks you whether you want to start the workout. When you stop moving it pauses; when you start moving again it resumes the workout. I use it for outdoor cycling, auto-pause works very well (almost always I start the workout myself). When you pause it yourself, you have to start the workout yourself, it doesn’t auto-start then.

 

[Woofie2010]

I hardly do running, and I do have the setting enabled, but just to confirm, it not compatible with outdoor walking?