Compass app stuck scanning

[///M5]

So compass app keeps scanning and never actually shows anything. Just the red hand rotating.

Tried resetting the watch and still the same issue.

Is there anything I need to do to get it lock the position/direction?

 

[Shikaka]

Are you on the latest Watch OS? I updated to the latest software and it unstuck the compass.

 

[Macintosh101]

So compass app keeps scanning and never actually shows anything. Just the red hand rotating.

Tried resetting the watch and still the same issue.

Is there anything I need to do to get it lock the position/direction?

I had the same issue. Took me quite some time digging online but I found the solution (for me anyway).

Go to Settings on your iPhone, the Privacy- Location Services- System Services , then make sure Compass Calibration toggle is turned to ON 👍🏼

 

[///M5]

Yes it’s on the latest software and still no go.

 

[///M5]

I had the same issue. Took me quite some time digging online but I found the solution (for me anyway).

Go to Settings on your iPhone, the Privacy- Location Services- System Services , then make sure Compass Calibration toggle is turned to ON 👍🏼

Thank you. This did it.

Apple needs to make this clearer. It never prompted location services request.

 

[Jackbequickly]

I did the above and my compass still is spinning.

 

[mysinelysine]

I have the same issue with red hand spinning indefinitely. All my location services are turned on. I am outdoors but still spinning.

edit: I also have the compass complication and THAT is actually working. Can see the compass needle moving there; just not on the actual compass watch app itself. Weird!

Update #2: okay, I finally managed to get it to work and I have a rough idea what the issue is. It’s the dialog / pop up that asks for permission to use location services but fails to pop up. It’s only after I toggled a couple of radios off and on (turned BT and wifi off on the phone) then voila! the permissions dialog surfaced and once I tapped allow, the compass worked. Hope this helps.

 

[tivoboy]

I had the same issue. Took me quite some time digging online but I found the solution (for me anyway).

Go to Settings on your iPhone, the Privacy- Location Services- System Services , then make sure Compass Calibration toggle is turned to ON 👍🏼

THAT DID IT,, what a crazy deep packed setting that I’m not sure why it was off.. frankly, i think I turned this off on the PHONE about seven years ago as it was one of the things that can drain battery ON THE PHONE… laws knows why the setting ON THE PHONE would be required for the Watch compass to work.

What I REALLY don’t understand is WHY/HOW the WATCH GPS capability should be dependent on a SETTING that is only available on the PHONE. I mean what if one left the phone in the car on a hike, and figured they could use trackback or GPS tracking on the watch and yet, if they hadn’t changed ONE setting on the PHONE prior to that, well then they are literally screwed.

Nice TIP!