Why isn't my planned workout showing up on my Apple Watch?

If a workout doesn't show up on your Apple Watch, check these four things:

1. Do you have Pro? Exporting planned workouts to your watch is a Pro feature. Importing your runs from the Watch, on the other hand, is free.
2. Is your Watch running watchOS 26? For the export, watchOS 26 is required. Trait doesn't support older versions – this isn't a temporary limitation but a technical requirement. Apple can tell you whether your Watch will get watchOS 26.
3. Is the workout scheduled for today? Trait can only ever send today's workout to your Watch. Sessions for tomorrow or next week deliberately don't appear yet.
4. Is your Watch connected to your iPhone? The handover to the Watch goes through your iPhone. Without a connection between the two devices, the workout won't arrive.

How the export works technically: Since watchOS 26, apps can hand over their own workouts to Apple Fitness on the iPhone in a format strictly defined by Apple. That's exactly what Trait does with today's workout. If your Watch is connected to your iPhone, the workout lands on the watch automatically: when you start a run there, the Watch offers you your planned Trait workout alongside the free run. Normally you don't have to add anything manually. The workout then doesn't run in a Trait app on the Watch, but entirely within Apple's environment – just like a workout you created yourself in Apple's Workout app.

The run you record on your Watch comes back into Trait via Apple Health. No specific watchOS version is needed for the import.

Everything checks out and the workout is still missing? This is very rare. Once Trait has successfully handed the workout over to Apple Fitness, the sync between iPhone and Watch is up to Apple – we can't see why it fails in individual cases and unfortunately can't fix it either. What often helps: restart both your Watch and iPhone, update both devices to the latest version, and make sure the Watch is connected to your iPhone.

If the Watch starts a different workout than the one shown, or the workout gets cut off, that's also on Apple's side – find out more in The Watch starts a different workout or stops.