How I Fixed Pelotons "Some information may not load" Warning

Back in August, I began noticing that whenever I started a workout, I received a warning saying, “Some information may not load.” The result was that several features stopped working — cadence and resistance ranges, auto-resistance, Apple Watch heart rate syncing, workout progress, the leaderboard, and even the ability to pause the class. I tried restarting, resetting the network connection, and performing every troubleshooting step, including a full factory reset of the machine.

Embarrassingly, the cause turned out to be much simpler: I was running AdGuard Home, and one of my blocklists was preventing the device from connecting properly. I’m always amazed that when I run into weird network behavior, my brain doesn’t immediately shout, “Try turning off AdGuard and see if that fixes it!” Fortunately, when it happened again last night, I actually remembered this time — I temporarily disabled AdGuard, and everything worked perfectly. One of these days I'll maybe investigate what the exact issue was and update this post.