Apple Fitness+ disconnecting from device

Me to, with no AppleTV involved:

Apple Watch Series 6, fully updated as of 3/9/2021

iPhone 12 Pro, fully updated as of 3/9/2021

AirPods Pro

Consistent cut-offs a few minutes in. The phone is, literally, within 2.5 feet of both AirPods and watch the entire time, with _nothing_ in between them.

Thought I would try one more time on the Apple TV and use fitness plus. No AirPods! No other devices in the room other than my watch and Apple TV box. Started a 30 fitness session and all worked fine until the 7th minute when the session stopped and the notification “device lost connection” appeared on the screen. Come on Apple!! Free trial runs out soon and I won’t renew

Have experienced this issue a number of times and it’s very frustrating. The worst part is that you can’t reconnect and fast forward to where you stopped but have to restart the whole workout.

Happens to me on iPhone 12 Pro Max + Watch SE + Airpods, getting “Device connection lost” randomly.

this has now started happening to me after updating to the latest iOS. And in case it was my internet I moved to the iPhone and Watch only for the workout on 4G and not WiFi and it happened too.

This is very frustrating.

Tried another workout using just Apple Watch and Apple TV. Loss connection after 6 minutes as before. AirPods not used. iPhone not even in the same room. Will have to resort to restarting the workout once again and doing the same 6 minutes again on the iPad. No drop outs on the iPad ever!!! Come on Apple!!!!!!!

This just started happening to me.. Apple TV 4K, Watch Series 6, iPhone Xs... all on the latest software available. Imagine being in the middle of a great yoga workout at a nice studio, and at the most random times, the music stops and the instructor just gets up and leaves. Class over because we lost your connection. Not any kind of gym I would continue to pay money to.

If Apple is going to insist the Watch is required to use Fitness+, it had better be rock solid. This reminds me of Apple Music when it first came out where it would randomly stop playing while driving around town. It was subpar.

Curious - are the member of this thread Tile users? I have four Tiles paired to my phone, and in the past they caused all sorts of connection drops with the AirPods. Tile eventually added a feature to their app to limit the number of Bluetooth connections, which solved it. Wonder if something similar is going on.

@Gggeoff For yoga, I highly recommend Practice Everywhere. They have an app, and you can easily AirPlay it without any issues. Their yoga teachers are fantastic, they have a free trial, and you can choose your area of focus/intensity.

I gave up on Fitness+ because of this issue. Went to iFIT. Today, after the event I was inspired to give it another shot. Here we are, almost 12 months later and the problem is still there

Apple Watch S4

Airpods pro

Apple TV HD

keeps disconnecting

Can confirm no fix was released.

Updated Apple TV, Watch, phone, etc. 10min core work out fails 5mins in. Very disappointing.

I have been advised by a senior tech adviser that Apple are preparing an update to try and resolved the disconnecting issue. I don’t think I will hold my breath!!!

Anyone try the new 14.7 release to see if it fixes this issue?

Mysteriously, a couple days after I posted this, my workaround no longer works. Now I have to use my iPad instead of Apple TV for workouts. I hope Apple addresses this.

This also what happens when the developers don't address P0 level bugs that have the product manager cringing. There's no excuse for not allowing the resumption of a workout that has been interrupted.

I'm actually a developer (30+ years) and have built mobile apps since 2001 (flip-phone days) through now. I started the mobile teams at Zynga, Kabam, and PlayStudios. Would like to continue this conversation to resolve the issue. Didn't mean to inappropriately assign blame.

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So with 27 “me too” and lots of comments, does Apple monitor this and or respond? And I agree, I expect more from Apple, this seems like a widespread bug that should have been vetted. I’m a paying user not on a better than nothing beta plan.