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How to delete a workout on the Apple Watch
From accidental recordings to unfinished workouts, there are plenty of reasons you may want to delete a workout from your Apple Watch. Luckily, doing so is easy. To avoid inaccurate data skewing your stats, follow one of the methods below to clean up your fitness tracking records.
Read more: Everything you need to know about Apple’s watches
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To delete a workout from the Apple Watch, find your data in either the Fitness app or Health app on your paired iPhone, swipe left over the workout, and tap delete.
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Delete a workout in the Fitness app
The easiest way to delete an unwanted workout from your Apple Watch is to locate the data in the Apple Fitness app on your paired iPhone.
- Open the Fitness app on your paired iPhone and tap the Summary tab.
- Next to Workouts, tap Show More.
- Swipe left over the workout you want to delete and tap delete.
- Tap Delete Workout & Data or Delete Workout only.
Delete a workout in the Health app
You can also delete workout data from Apple’s Health app.
- Open the Health app on your paired iPhone and tap the Browse tab, then search for and tap Workouts.
- Scroll down to and tap Show all Data.
- Swipe left over the workout you would like to remove and tap delete, then tap Delete Workout & Data or Delete Workout only.
Read more: Common Apple Watch problems and solutions
FAQs
If you miss the opportunity to record a workout on your Apple Watch, you can add the workout manually in the Health app on your paired iPhone.