Apple watch counts bogus flights climbed

[edhchoe]

I don't climb stairs or ride elevators and it counts 30 - 50 flights climbed each day.
I have tried power down and power up. but it didn't help.
Is my watch broken?
It is Apple watch 4 and I have had it for about 5 months so it is still under warranty.
I might take it in this weekend for help at Apple store.

 

[mrex]

Elevation differences. Some sensor in a watch recognizes you are walking, probably the barometer senses the difference in a airpressure and the summary is ”x flights climbed” from a mathematical formula.

 

[AlliFlowers]

That's really odd!

 

[ftaok]

Go into your Health app and take a look at when your AW is counting the Flights. It could be that you take a bumpy elevator or something like that.

do you walk up hills? That could be it too.

 

[edhchoe]

14 flights today so far.
iPhone doesn't tell when the flights happened.
I guess I will go to a Apple store

 

[gwang73]

14 flights today so far.
iPhone doesn't tell when the flights happened.
I guess I will go to a Apple store

The time data for each flight is in the Health app.
Health-->Activity-->Flights Climbed-->Show All Data

 

[google]

Oddly I have the opposite issue where it does not count the stairs when I take the stairs!

 

[SDColorado]

Oddly I have the opposite issue where it does not count the stairs when I take the stairs!

I have that issue as well. I have been up and down several flights of stairs today and my watch still reports 0. What gives?

 

[edhchoe]

Unpairing and pairing as new watch didn't solve my issue.
Apple said it will take up to 5 days to get my watch back if I send it in.
I cannot live a work day without my 16 silent alarms, so decided to keep wearing the watch for now.
The flight count doesn't matter to me anyway. I will get it fixed sometime before the warranty expires in September.