To STOP segments during a workout on Apple Watch:

I want my mile splits. I don’t want 13 segments I did not ask to track at all to pop up going up my final steep climb on my otherwise perfectly peaceful hike.

I don’t use segments I don’t want segments. I do want to mark my mile splits though. The two things being linked is a dumb foul word situation.

Yes using the water lock feature does work but you also can’t use anything else on the watch such as switches playlists or selecting a podcast without turning off the lock.

It is far from solved

I'm on 11.0.1 and it's definitely NOT fixed.

Hi, I may have just found a workaround. I had the same problem, as you, and many others, and yesterday I probably got nine segment alerts in less than 50 feet of a run. Not sure if it works yet because I haven't used it in a real workout, but I remembered this ...

"Please for all that is holy give us the option to disable segments!," and couldn't agree more!

It's not perfect and I don't know if it will work if you're looking for exact times. I've tried it with Outdoor Walk and Outdoor Run, but not in a real workout, yet.

Go to Outdoor Walk or Run and open it.

Then hit the side button, not the crown dial. It takes you to the control screen.

Hit the water drop. It locks the screen.

To unlock the screen when you're done, hold the crown, and it will do that water ejection thing.

I won't know if it will give mile splits until tomorrow, I sure hope it does. My apologies if it doesn't work and I've wasted your time. I just remembered your post when I was trying to solve this yesterday after getting so many segment alerts that I wanted to slam my watch into the ground. It all happens because of my wet sleeve, it doesn't happen in the summertime.

Hope it helps, Tim

Hi! I tried these instructions and the issue remains. How come there isn’t a way to stop it all together!?! This is so upsetting! Every other workout ends up stopping because there are too many splits!! Help please !!

It is funny you mention this; the exact same thing happened to me this morning as I had a long sleeve shirt - I ended up with more than 20 segments (which I don’t need at all). Also, each time a drop of sweat lands on the watch it creates a segment - SO FREAKING RIDICULOUS!!!!

I had it with this watch - I just pull the trigger on a Garmin watch! So disappointing Apple!

3x triple tap on the crown is my workaround for now. It's a mode you set in accessibility > Open the Watch app on the iPhone and go to Accessibility > Touch Accommodations · Turn on Hold Duration, set it to 1s or 2s (whatever you like). That allows me to access everything while working out using buttons, but screen touches need to be held for one second or two, which results in errorless workout tracking.

I submitted a request for this feature on the Apple Watch Feedback page. I ran into the unwanted segments issue today while trying to dismiss heart rate alerts that I set up during a HIIT workout (I have since turned them off).

I assigned a shortcut to the orange action button. This way, when the button is pressed, it opens the shortcut which launches a menu, so if no menu item is selected, the shortcut just goes away and no segment alert is displayed.

To make things even tighter, I launch workouts from the menu in the shortcut that is assigned to the action button. The first menu item on that shortcut prompts to select a workout (e.g. Cross Training, Yoga, Run). The workout selection is followed by enabling water lock. This locks the dail and function buttons. This makes the phone unresponsive to any button or screen touch until the water lock is disabled.

The same thing happens to me - when it rains, it is a mess! it even stop the whole activity. So useless!

I live in a circle which is half mile for a circle, I walk 8 circles which is 4 miles, last two days my watch tells me that I walk only 2.65 miles?

My watch gives me random segment splits when cycling. Even 6 feet sections. Very helpful🤔

That appears to work for cycling, which I haven't had any problem with, but I don't see it for outdoor walk or run. I only have problems with those two.

At least now I know in case I do have segment problems with cycling. Regardless, thanks for the info.

This is very frustrating. I’m not super technical but I followed Some good advice here from the community. I have Ultra series and turned off splits. Within 5 minutes of a walk I got 9 split notifications. This just started happening. I hope there’s a bug fix. Unless I’m doing something wrong?