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Apple Watch activities for lap, swimming or pool swim is missing.

We did some sort of a reset to the iPhone -I had to renter my Wi-Fi password. Got to the pool with my new Apple Watch 8 had used it a couple of times before for my lap swimming. But the function in activities for lap, swimming or pool swim was gone. I could only get open water swim. I am furious. I tried everything looks like another call to Apple.



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Apple Watch Series 8

Posted on Jan 17, 2023 12:30 PM

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Posted on Jan 17, 2023 2:28 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


Also see the 'Add a workout' section in:

Workout types on Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Jan 17, 2023 2:28 PM in response to jeanfrombedford

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


Also see the 'Add a workout' section in:

Workout types on Apple Watch - Apple Support


Apple Watch activities for lap, swimming or pool swim is missing.

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