So my heart rate has been getting taken all morning and walking around the house has been appearing in activity. I go for a quick 30 minutes bike ride and what happens? It doesn't monitor my heart rate at all, nor count the ride as activity. I did kick off Runkeeper from the watch so don't know if that had anything to do with it. Anyone experienced anything similar?
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Activity + Heart sensor not working as expected
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Yep. I walked for an hour today and it only registered seven minutes as exercise. I thought maybe since I was just sort of slumping around and not "briskly" walking that it wasn't counting as exercise, someone else suggested maybe it wasn't tight enough and wasn't registering my HR properly.
Not sure. I'll be monitoring it for a few days.
Not sure. I'll be monitoring it for a few days.
My understanding is that unless you select a workout activity (such as outside running etc.) the heart rate is only sampled every 10min. You need an activity to get realtime readings.
Yeah, I used the "outside walk" activity on the Workout app. That's why I was confused.
I had considered the tightness, but I hadn't changed that at all. I have a sport band due next week so I'm currently using the Milanese strap which is nice and secure around my wrist so I'm not sure if that is the answer.
I expected so yes, but it is only showing 3 minutes rather than the 30 (or 33 more accurately)
Try enabling the HR monitor and workout apps on your iPhones Health app. The data will be transferred there & it's easier to read. You do have to turn the switch on though within that iphone app if u haven't already, see if it shows up there.
Call Apple? I think they're going to know. Not people on the forums here with a June ship date of their apple watch because Apple made 40 of them.
That could very well be the case for the lack of exercise activity appearing. Would be nice if other apps could pass this data on, especially as the activity does appear in the Health app on the phone. Doesn't quite explain the lack of 3 expected heart rate readings though. Is the monitor turned off when third party apps are open perhaps?
On your phone open Health > Health Data > All > Heart Rate > Show All Data. Check around the time you were exercising how often it was pulling it.
It didn't.
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I expect that, however the watch itself should be able to keep the normal 10 minute check going shouldn't it?
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The answer to that is no, at least not with Twitter
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Oh and before someone asks, my iPhone was with me attached to the bike via a quadlock.
In the wsj review Joanna stern said that she could not get an accurate heart rate most of the time with the Milanese loop, but with the sports band it was very accurate
Sounds to me like a combination of using the pedometer for activity tracking rather than it being intelligent enough to know your elevated heartbeat during your bike ride, and the strap not being tight enough. Only thing I can think of that would cause the readings not to show up.