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After recent Watch update, exercise screen doesn't display by default
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07-22-2026 02:51 AM
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userfT03Ac2f6H
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Edit: so I found a fix. Auto detect exercise is completely different than a workout you manually start on your phone or watch. They can both run at the same time. For always on display to work, you have to set up your run settings with AOD, manually start a jog, walk, swim, etc, and hit go. As an example, I was jogging and auto detect started a workout without the always on display or other settings I had toggled on. While jogging I manually started a run workout, and it started a second timer with AOD. When I stopped, two separate times and distances were captured. It's annoying, but it's a fix to my problem. Auto detect exercise just is broken now.
I used to be able to raise my wrist, and it displayed the workout screen. Now the active work out pops up as a badge on the bottom of the watch home screen. So I have to click the badge, and then tap the exercise button that pops up on the next screen. My watch is old, so this takes like 20 seconds to get to the workout screen, and sometimes it just freezes. Which is difficult and annoying to deal with while jogging. Especially since it reverts to the home screen again after a few seconds, so I have to do it every time I want to see my distance and heart rate. It has ruined my watch's functionality.
I don't need my watch to shown me anything else while I'm in the middle of an exercise, and I really want to revert this change. Does anyone know if there is a setting to fix this anywhere? I haven't found anything in the watch, phone, or Samsung health settings. Online I've only seen people say it is a notification issue, but tweaking those settings don't help. Maybe this is a new, normal functionality, and I need to revert to a past firmware to restore it? Or is there no recourse?
AAbbott
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07-22-2026 11:07 AM
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Go to the setting for any exercise from the watch and turn on keep screen on during workouts. The screen will stay on when you set a workout and you will see the data screen when you lift your wrist.
userfT03Ac2f6H
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07-27-2026 11:10 PM
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Naropa
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08-1-2026 06:54 PM
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It doesn't work for me either.
Can't we ask Samsung for a fix?
user9XEvEuS4af
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10-20-2026 02:53 PM
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Drsusss
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07-29-2026 09:40 PM
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Hope this helps
userfT03Ac2f6H
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08-1-2026 06:03 PM
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Drsusss
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08-27-2026 12:40 PM
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Members_WWAUSrG
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08-1-2026 04:15 PM
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I despise this update. Where is the countdown for workouts?? Why remove it completely? Please bring back the ability to have the 3-2-1 countdown.
AAbbott
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08-15-2026 12:35 PM
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You select an exercise the same way you always have. That hasn't changed. The only thing that changed is the addition of the extra tap to start an exercise. If you had the exercise selection tile on your watch, you would do exactly as you have done in the past. If you start your exercise from the health app on the watch, same thing - just choose your exercise. If you start your workouts from your phone, and you find the tile missing from your home screen, edit the home screen to add it, or tap the shortcut on the top of the screen (running man), and the exercise selector tile will be at the bottom. I don't know why they put it at the bottom and made the tiles in the individual sections unmovable but, as stated, you can add it to the home page of the app and position it where you would like.
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user9XEvEuS4af
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10-20-2026 02:58 PM
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AAbbott
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10-20-2026 03:09 PM
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The watch won't detect a workout for 10 minutes because it needs to make sure you are actually working out, not just have a burst of activity (which will be reflected in your calorie burn). After the 10 minutes, though, you don't lose workout time, it's retroactive to when it started. So, if you are walking for 10 minutes when detection starts, the 10 minutes will be added to the workout time when all is said and done.
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Drsusss
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08-1-2026 06:08 PM
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userfT03Ac2f6H
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08-1-2026 06:13 PM
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I'm starting to think this issue is a now bar feature? Its like the exercise application is automatically minimized upon opening. But it's frustrating to have to mess with my slow watch while I'm actively jogging outside to get to my heart rate, run time, and run distance. I don't need my watch to do anything else besides those features when I'm exercising lol.
Thanks for your input BTW.
Drsusss
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08-1-2026 06:42 PM
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Naropa
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08-1-2026 06:52 PM
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So. Is there some way that we can ask Samsung to rectify this issue?
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userfT03Ac2f6H
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08-1-2026 07:37 PM
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userNzySfcIGpd
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08-2-2026 08:21 AM
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Why do they do this, change for no reason and dont even have the courtesy to introduce the new method as an choice.
Press button 1 2 3 start...
Not press button, wait, press button again (works) or press play on screen...
One button press rather than two with a pause.
I want to press the button and walk make it a choice to do that as it was and worked fune
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