Manually Add Missed Workouts on iPhone

There’s a nice new feature in the Fitness app on iPhone that lets you add workouts that you’ve completed but haven’t logged using the Apple Watch. This means if you’ve been for a swim or you went out for a jog and your watch battery had died, you can manually add that workout afterwards to still fill up your rings and earn credit for that workout.

I’ll tap on the Workouts tab at the bottom, and then I’m going to press the new icon in the top corner – the one with a pen on a piece of paper. This brings up the new Add Workout screen, and from here we can choose what workout we’re adding.

I’m going to add a swim. So I’ll scroll through this list, and as you can see, there are dozens and dozens of different workout types we can add – all the ones available on the Apple Watch.

I’ll find Swimming and select that workout type. Next up, we can set the details of the workout – the duration, the number of lengths, and all those things specific to the workout you’ve chosen. I’m going to fine-tune the distance I swam and the time I was in the pool for – 25 minutes. That’s perfect.

We can also go back and change the date of the workout, so you can add things you did last week or earlier today whenever you need to. You can adjust the time as well.

Finally, we can add the effort. On the Apple Watch, this is worked out automatically if it’s being worn. Obviously, it wasn’t worn for this workout, but I can manually add it here if I want to.

When I press the tick in the corner, the workout is added to the Fitness app just like any other workout. I can tap on it to see all the details I’ve just logged.

What’s quite interesting here is that although I wasn’t wearing my watch during the swim, I was wearing it during that time period, so it’s still found heart rate data that matches. Obviously, that means the results aren’t perfectly accurate in this case, but it’s still a really useful feature if you forgot to start a workout or your battery died.

There are loads of things your iPhone can do that you might never find unless you know where to look. So do check out my channel down below, and I’ll see you next time.