Does AW count my steps even if I forgot to unlock it for the first few hours of my day?

[HappyDude20]

I don’t know how often this has happened to you but I put my watch on in the mornings and head out the door and don’t realize that I never unlocked my watch up until I arrive at work almost 2 hours later.

I’m hoping that the watch counts my steps cause I use it mainly as a step counter although for so much more.

also I understand there’s a setting that unlocks the watch automatically when I unlock my phone but I’d rather have that feature off.

 

[deeddawg]

I'm fairly sure mine's always counted steps while locked, but I've never really verified.

Anyway, simple enough for you to test it out tomorrow morning. Wait an hour or two to unlock it, then check the Activity app on the watch for your step count.

Let us know what you find.

 

[HappyDude20]

I'm fairly sure mine's always counted steps while locked, but I've never really verified.

Anyway, simple enough for you to test it out tomorrow morning. Wait an hour or two to unlock it, then check the Activity app on the watch for your step count.

Let us know what you find.

Ahhh my fitness challenge is to walk 200 miles and I jog every morning so would have to experiment next month for that. Hoping someone knows the answe truthfully.

 

[Apple_Robert]

The sensor will still read steps while locked.

 

[Beards]

Ahhh my fitness challenge is to walk 200 miles and I jog every morning so would have to experiment next month for that. Hoping someone knows the answe truthfully.

You don’t need to do that….
First off look at what steps the watch has recorded.
Now take off your watch and put it back on again but do not unlock.
now walk 100 steps (or swing your arm 50 times).
Unlock the watch and look again at the step count….. it should read 100 steps more than the previous reading..
Job done.

However, Robert above is quite correct…. The sensor does indeed still record steps whilst locked. 😊

 

[deeddawg]

Ahhh my fitness challenge is to walk 200 miles and I jog every morning so would have to experiment next month for that. Hoping someone knows the answe truthfully.

As mentioned, there's no reason you can't experiment right now and have the answer for yourself.

As for someone knowing the answer truthfully, how would you know whether the random strangers on the Internet are answering your question truthfully or putting you on for some reason?

 

[matrix07]

It would be strange if it doesn't count your step while you're wearing it, locked or unlocked. The reason you lock your watch is because you don't want anyone to access it, not because you don't want your steps counted.

 

[waw74]

Ahhh my fitness challenge is to walk 200 miles and I jog every morning so would have to experiment next month for that. Hoping someone knows the answe truthfully.

If you jog every morning, you should be starting a jogging workout, which means you have to unlock your watch.

it doesn't have to be first thing in the morning, you could also lock your watch sometime later during the day.
You could even lock it for a couple minutes and make a lap from the bedroom to the kitchen and back, and compare the numbers before and after. that's should be a couple hundred steps and more than enough to see the count go up.

In the health app on the phone, you can see a very detailed breakdown of exactly when the steps were recorded, If you look on a day you forgot to unlock, you will be able to see if there were steps recorded during those hours. you may need to scroll to the bottom, and "show more details" and pick a day on the daily breakdown, it shows which device those steps came from broken into intervals of a few minutes. Since your phone can also record steps, this will let you verify which device logged them.

 

[millerj123]

I think it best to speculate endlessly. None of this “test it yourself stuff” for me.

I expect results will indicate “counts”