Brad Johnston
Casey LissIt’s been long enough that I feel confident in saying the information artchitecture on the watchOS 26 workouts app is garbage.
Nothing is where I want nor expect it to be.
Lousy Hat@caseyliss things are harder to find, I can’t figure out how to remove or hide workouts that I will never use, I *just* figured out how to silence the splits announcement, and they seemingly make it impossible to disable accidental segment taps other than turning on water lock. maddening.
Ilkka Viinikanoja@lousyhat Care to share how you silenced the split announcements? I’ve been looking for it, but apparently in the wrong places.
@ilkkav on the watch, I went into the workouts, scrolled to find my Outdoor Walking workout, then tapped on the little bell in the lower-right corner. In there, I turned off Workout Buddy then tapped on "Splits 1.00 mi." There is a toggle there labeled "Splits Alert" that I turned off
tbf, I found it after my exercise this morning so I can't be 100% sure that it does what I think it does, but it now says "Splits None" instead of "1.00 mi." Apologies if I turn out to be incorrect on what it does
@lousyhat Thanks! I'll give it a try tomorrow. I hope the choice sticks so that you don't have to do it separately for each workout. Life is better when the announcement won't interrupt my podcast 🙂
toastedmilk@lousyhat you can actually edit the whole thing (swipe delete ones you don’t use) and add custom ones in the fitness app in iOS 26. But on the watch yes it’s a chore.
Kyle 
@kylesethgray if only this could be reported internally…
😁
Joe Rosensteel 🏳️🌈@kylesethgray Here you go, darling 😘
Nathan Snelgrove@kylesethgray @caseyliss not gonna lie. I filed it.
@caseyliss yep. Terrible.
Fredrik Björeman@caseyliss Agree. Everything manages to feel a bit slower to get to, and nothing is better than last year.
Fabien@bjoreman @caseyliss sounds like my watch might happily on last years OS forever if needed. It works just fine. Only thing that appeals is the notes app…
Michael Thingnes@caseyliss 100%. The 26 Workouts app has also never once succeeded in playing my running playlist when starting a running workout. I need to switch apps and do that separately.
Yes, I’ve filed feedback for both. No, nobody’s ever looked at them as far as I can tell.
@thimic If it's not a burden, you mind sharing the FB numbers, please?
@caseyliss I’m calling out running workouts in particular in my info hierarchy feedback as that’s what I do the most, but should be generalisable to the rest of the app.
Info hierarchy: FB20431296
Playlist failing to play: FB20430968
@thimic Passed on to a friend that works at the orchard. Thanks!
ChancerubbageI think the last thing I was curious about was the length of my stride. How do the length of my steps average out on a long walk? If I walk a thousand steps how far have I walked?
I’m not certain if the answer is immediately visible on the watch but not the phone, or vice versa, or a scavenger hunt on both, but I do recall I had to look. And perhaps do some of my own math.
What is hidden that you want to see immediately? Heart rate? Other?
Carlos Chacon@caseyliss also who tf decided I need to disable workout buddy on a per workout basis!? Insanity
j@caseyliss 26 is trash on all platforms. Good riddance, Alan.
Mario@caseyliss not only the architecture, the app itself is garbage.
Open the app, try to launch a workout from the second available option (which at this point is clearly visible) and… surprise! A workout for the first option is started because there is a hidden start button there that for some Machiavellian reason takes what feels like an eternity to appear and the second option was never really tappable 😡😡😡
Open the app, try to launch a workout from the second available option (which at this point is clearly visible) and… surprise! A workout for the first option is started because there is a hidden start button there that for some Machiavellian reason takes what feels like an eternity to appear and the second option was never really tappable 😡😡😡
Ayo^@caseyliss And I have to WAIT, for the damn start button, to appear??
Wayne Dixon@caseyliss My biggest pet peeve with it is that it doesn't always start a workout when I want it to. Sometimes it's just like "nah, you didn't actually press that button".
Travis Walters@caseyliss My dad asked me to stop by his house today to “fix” his phone. It turns out it’d updated to iOS 26 and he couldn’t find anything anymore and thought Liquid Glass was a bug.
Ari
Clark Griswold@caseyliss dont short change the older versions. Which have been equally awful. like if you ever forget to start the workout or it didnt register the tap. Have fun with the enfuriating process of adding it back manually. Or the auto-detect functionality which has correctly auto-detected a walk maybe 5 times since it was introduced, but innevitably asks me if i want to end my workout if I dare attempt to briefly tie my shoe.
not that coachmike@clarkgriswold @caseyliss On the same route I’ve ridden literally over 1000x, 23km from my house, going ~22kph up a 4% grade, no building or other road for at least 3km in any direction, HR more than double my resting HR, and at least 40% of rides I’d get that “looks like you’re done; end workout?” pop up.
Just…how? Why?
As others have said, the people who design and build it obviously do not use it.
Brian Perry@caseyliss What are they thinking with the start workout button? I tap the workout type icon every time, then it’s hunt for the start button and click it. Usually I miss the first time, though. Weirdly infuriating.
@caseyliss I know this was a while ago but today I discovered on iOS 26 you can set up and start he workout on the iPhone now rather than the watch.
