Apple Watch often encounters bugs. After exercising for a long time and with normal time display, it was only later that it was discovered that the distance recorded was 0 calories.
In fact, this bug cannot be accurately fixed by Apple. You can update to the latest watchOS version, but it still occurs occasionally. But you can update your training records and have them display your heart rate in full!
With a third‑party app like Fito you can add workout manually to apple watch and sync it into Apple Health so your Activity.
add workout manually to apple watch and fix 0 calories
Fito supports 80+ activity types and can create workout entries that are written into Apple Health as Workout samples.
You can customize the start time, duration and type of exercise, and the calories will be automatically calculated. Even you can customize the calories and kilometers as well.
Since your Apple Watch has been in constant motion, your heart rate data has been saved. The records created by Fito can still display your heart rate.
If you add a workout for today (or yesterday) in Fito, it will sync to Apple Health and typically update your Activity rings to reflect the added active calories, exercise minutes, and standing hours — rescuing the ring you missed.
Step‑by‑step: rescue your apple watch rings with Fito
- Open Fito and go to Add Workout (Manual).
- Select the closest activity type (Fito supports 80+ types) so the entry matches what you actually did.
- Set the date and start/end times to the actual time you exercised — make sure it’s today or yesterday (older entries may not be accepted by the system).
- Enter duration. Accurate time and distance make the estimate more realistic.
- Check calories:
- Default behavior: Fito estimates active calories using your profile (height, weight, sex), the chosen activity, and duration — and writes those active calories into Apple Health.
- Pro/custom option: if you’re a Fito Pro user you can manually override the calorie value (useful if you know a more accurate burn from a treadmill or other device). Make sure you are editing active (active energy) calories so the Move ring updates correctly.
- Save and let Fito sync — wait a minute or two, then open Apple Activity to confirm the ring updated.
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