How do I disable activity tracking on S Health?

[alty]

how to disable activity tracking on s health

I just bought a Gear S2 and have started using S Health for the first time. My S2 is used with my Galaxy S6. It seems that my Gear S2 periodically thinks I am riding a bicycle, especially when I am in my car. I will get vibration notices that the watch is now monitoring my bike ride. How do I disable this? I have gone to the S Health App on my phone, under managing items, turned off cycling tracker, however, it seems that this has no effect on my watch's S Health. And unless I am mistaken, it seems that my watch will tell my phone to turn on the cycling tracker once the watch thinks I am cycling.
Ugh, please help!

 

[Justen Wilson]

I have the exact same issue. It is getting really annoying... I have disabled in my S Health, but no change on S2... You can go into S Health on your phone and delete the cycling activity... but I don't want to have to do that everyday... Maybe I will contact Samsung... I'll let you know if I find a fix...

 

[alty68]

How do you delete the cycling? I would do that. I found that I can disable it, but I would delete it. If you get an answer definitely let me know. My watch thinks I am a cycling maniac!

 

[James Breazeale]

Has anyone figured this out I'm a truck driver and my watch has me cycling all day lol

 

[V Sanchez]

Anyone figure this out?

 

[wireproof]

Anyone figure this out?

I've had this problem since got my watch at launch, and litterally everyone I know who has the gear S2 is having this problem. I gave up, I just buy an Android Wear watch. The Gear S2 is a hunk of **** with no support... some may like it but Tizen and Samsung disappointed me.

 

[iresq]

Re: how to disable activity tracking on s health

Keeping the thread alive in hopes of a fix.

 

[FCSC]

This is becoming a real pain in the ***.

the past few weekends i've gone on long hikes, and while I have s health on, recording the hike, it thinks I'm moving to quickly for a hike, and changes it to a walk.

No big deal right, it should have me hiking, then doing a walk in the middle of a hike, but no.

When the gear s2 auto detects that i'm walking, it stops and erases the hiking data and only records the walk. 2 hours into my hike, it erased all of the data and started recording the walk.

Ugh.

 

[Dean Camerer]

This is becoming a real pain in the ***.

the past few weekends i've gone on long hikes, and while I have s health on, recording the hike, it thinks I'm moving to quickly for a hike, and changes it to a walk.

No big deal right, it should have me hiking, then doing a walk in the middle of a hike, but no.

When the gear s2 auto detects that i'm walking, it stops and erases the hiking data and only records the walk. 2 hours into my hike, it erased all of the data and started recording the walk.

Ugh.

 

[Dean Camerer]

If you go in and disable cycling it should solve the problem and you shouldn't have to do that everyday I'm going okay I guess I need a day or two to read through these I can probably get the fix

 

[Brinda Sahoo]

@alty
To avoid auto detection , disable the option called "Detect workout"present in shealth settings which detects the workout automatically recorde by connected gear

Thanks

 

[NoFaQ]

@alty
To avoid auto detection , disable the option called "Detect workout"present in shealth settings which detects the workout automatically recorde by connected gear

Thanks

My issue is that Detect Workouts is greyed out.

I like to use the Pear Sports app for training runs. It syncs to S-health. Then, the watch auto detects the run also syncs to s-health, resulting in double the distance recorded than I actually did.

 

[Droid_Man]

FOUND THE FIX...

While the activity is displayed on the GearS2, Long press the screen (on the Gear) until the prompt for the activity tracker displays. You will then be able to toggle the individual activities on/off.

Hope this helps.

 

[Citicricket]

Maybe you figured this out, but here's the answer:
tap the lower button on the side of your watch - tap SETTINGS, scroll down to WORKOUT DETECTION, Tap it and scroll down to cycling. Tap the circle under cycling (or any activity) to turn it on or off. If the circle is lit, it's on - if it's dark you've turned it off. I have had my Gear Fit 2 for 8 months and LOVE it. I'm amazed at how well the GPS works on such an inexpensive piece of equipment.

 

[Citicricket]

You need to fix it on your Gear Fit, not the phone. Go to settings on you watch (tap the lower side button) scroll down under setting to WORKOUT DETECTION. Open in and scroll to cycling or whatever sport you do want it to detect and tap the circle under it to make it dark. I turned all of mine off. I like to start and stop each sport purposefully.