Strength Trainer automatically quitting workouts
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Conner
Loving strength trainer, the implementation is beautiful. Although, yesterday I ended up with 3 different strength trainer workouts because it kept automatically stopping the workout. I'm not sure why. I restarted both the phone and the watch. Eventually I gave up trying to log everything. :/
Is this on your radar?
Canny AI
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Strength Trainer creates 2 to 3 workouts at the same time
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lifeof_felixt
When I end a strength training workout I experienced up to 3 strength workouts showing up in Apple fitness / Bevel one of them is always the tracked workout with all of the stats and the rest are empty workouts with a duration of 0 seconds
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Randell
Hi lifeof_felixt, Thanks for reporting this. I just want to confirm, Did you use Bevel’s Strength Builder feature when recording your workouts?
Also, can you please go to Apple Health -> Workouts -> Scroll down and tap Show all data. Screenshot this view for me?
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lifeof_felixt
Hi Randell, yes I used the bevel strength builder. I already deleted the duplicates so i will upload a screenshot the next time I go to the gym and this happens. Also for your information I’m already on watchOS 11 / iOS 18 public beta
Randell
lifeof_felixt: Hi, just a quick question, when you deleted the duplicates in Apple Health were you able to check if the duplicates were from Bevel?
We will keep track of this ticket since you are in IOS 18 Beta. If you can reproduce it constantly please let us know the steps on how to, that will help us a lot. Thanks!
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lifeof_felixt
Hi Randell, yes they were
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lifeof_felixt
Hi Randell, here’s the screenshot from the health app. I found out how to reproduce it. You have to tap the watch screen when it says go. Every time you tap it a new workout is created. Btw. is it supposed to be that the go screen stays visible for around then seconds before switching in the workout screen?
Randell
lifeof_felixt Hi, thanks for this. I can reproduce this on my end as well. We will look into it.
For your other question, the GO screen should be gone right away. I believe the reason why it stays there for a few seconds is because of the tapping when it shows
Randell
lifeof_felixt: Hi, This is now fixed. Please update to the latest version of the app. Thanks for reporting!
I will close this ticket now.
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lifeof_felixt
Here’s a screenshot of the behavior
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Quinn Comendant
Grey, you just marked this complete; did you fix anything since August 23? Because, that's the last time I experienced this issue. It's been happening to me a couple times a month.
Most often, the app crashes before any data is logged, resulting in an “empty” workout session, and displays summary screens like ones attached below.
One clue: when the app crashes in this way, there seem to be two rest timers running:
- Rest timer haptics every 2 mins coinciding with the rest clock in multiples of 2 minutes (02:00,04:00, etc). 👍
- Rest timer haptics every 2 mins NOT coinciding with the clock, i.e., haptic might occur at 00:15.
Do you run the rest timer on its own thread? Is it possible when the AW app crashes, that the first rest timer could continue running in the background (because it wasn't a “clean shutdown”), and when I restart the workout there are two rest timer threads running?
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There's a couple related issues you can probably merge into this one:
- Strength trainer just stopped and vanished (this one has some of my earlier reports on the issue).
- Apple Watch workout crashes/ends early
Grey
Quinn Comendant: Are you still experiencing this issue on the new Apple Watch app?
I marked it as complete because we did some refactoring that should fix it in theory (and at least when we tried to, we couldn't reproduce it).
However, if you're still experiencing this issue, we'll need to reopen it. If there are any additional details you can share on how to reproduce it, that'd be really helpful! 🙏
Quinn Comendant
Grey The last time I had this issue was on Aug 23. If you did refactoring since then, I hope it's fixed and I'll report back in a month or so. These intermittent issues are hard to nail down. 😅
Oh, there is something else I should mention: sometimes the timer doesn't start when starting a workout. Here's the steps that trigger this:
- AW 8 with always-on display disabled (not sure if that's a prerequisite, but you'll see why it might be related below).
- Start a workout.
- Immediately, I put my wrist down and the watch face turns dark.
- I do my gym warmup routine.
- About 15 minutes later, I'll raise my wrist to glance at my watch and Bevel will show the timer starting from 00:00:01.
It seems dropping my wrist immediately causes the app to go in the background and the timer doesn't start until the next time the app is in the foreground.
This may be related to the issue of workouts terminating early, because both seem to occur at the start (prematurely-ended workouts usually have a duration of 0 seconds).
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Quinn Comendant: Ok got it. That's very helpful information to know.
We'll investigate further on our end. I'll open this ticket again. Let me know if you can reproduce the quitting workout early issue.
Quinn Comendant
Grey Unfortunately, it happened again yesterday: after doing my workout warmup, I checked my wrist and Bevel was not running. I open Bevel, and there is the workout summary screen displaying a workout of 0 seconds.
I feel pretty confident the issue can be triggered consistently by following the steps in my previous comment. Putting the wrist down, and not glancing at the watch for the next 10+ minutes seems key here.
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Quinn Comendant: Can you download the latest TestFlight and let me know if you're still seeing this issue?
Quinn Comendant
Grey Sure, I'll keep an eye on it. I did a workout today without issue, but it's intermittent.
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Quinn Comendant have you seen this issue again recently?
Quinn Comendant
Grey I only worked out twice in the past couple weeks, and no issues with Bevel.
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