How to TURN OFF the feature where the watch detects exercise automatically

[KaaSerpent]

I have gone through the Dashboard and told it to ignore every form of exercise under auto-exercise recognition. But yet whenever I go for a walk and deliberately start tracking the exercise in the app, the watch, after 10 minutes, detects my walk and starts double-tracking. So I stop it...and it does it again in 10 more minutes. Today I had to delete 4 separate "detected" exercise entries.

I want it to STOP. How do I get it to STOP?

[JohnnyRow · Accepted solution]

Go to the Exercise App on Sense 2 on wrist and select Walk but before you start it, swipe up from the little arrow on bottom of screen, and go down to 'Walk detect' and make sure it is off.  If it is set to off.  If set to 'on', it still auto-starts exercise when walk is detected, I guess overriding other settings.  There are many settings from that little arrow at bottom of screen that many are not aware of, and Fitbit does little to alert people to.

[KaaSerpent]

Yaaaaaas! Thank you. I will test this tomorrow on my daily walk, but it WAS set to "on" on the watch itself even though it was off on the dashboard.

[LZeeW]

@KaaSerpent   Walk detect is a different feature.  It turns on the Walk shortcut in Exercise app, will give you a map if you GPS is toggled on in the Walk shortcut, etc.  This Sense 2 also has Run detect and Bike detect.  These are also On by default.

You were turning off SmartTrack, a different feature.

[KaaSerpent]

Yes! My walk this morning was uninterrupted by erroneous "detected walks."