This is crap. What's the point of even having a heart rate monitor if it only works for an hour a day. If you're actually active and moving during the day, you won't ever get readings. Might as well just get rid of the heart rate monitor and save battery. Why not just use a freakin HRM strap when exercising?? That's now the only time the monitor works anyway.
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Heart rate updates after 1.01
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Sounds to me like they realise that moving arm = inaccurate reading, so they are culling data. Bad data every 10 minutes is misleading and no good to anyone.
But if moving arm data is inaccurate, then it isn't a health monitor is it?
I can tell you now, my readings are very inaccurate during walks, and I have doubts about resting readings. Most of the time a glance triggered reading will start 5-12 bpm higher that the final reading.
But this kind of defeats the purpose, you would think that it should attempt more often if it had not got a reading in a while.
Multi hour gaps are a complete failure. Let's see what 1.02 does.
But if moving arm data is inaccurate, then it isn't a health monitor is it?
I can tell you now, my readings are very inaccurate during walks, and I have doubts about resting readings. Most of the time a glance triggered reading will start 5-12 bpm higher that the final reading.
But this kind of defeats the purpose, you would think that it should attempt more often if it had not got a reading in a while.
Multi hour gaps are a complete failure. Let's see what 1.02 does.
I am so angry. I am really torn between attempting a return and giving Apple one more chance to ADMIT PROBLEM and fix this.
Unfortunately it appears Tim is taking his cues from friends Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi--ignore, deny, change the data, change "history", change the goal, declare victory in achieving that goal.
Unfortunately it appears Tim is taking his cues from friends Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi--ignore, deny, change the data, change "history", change the goal, declare victory in achieving that goal.
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If the 1.0.1 update was intended to increase battery life it's had the opposite effect for me as I'm checking heart rate glance more often!
Agree with other posters and part of my reason for buying was monitoring during non-exercise time so have to think about whether to hope 1.02 fixes it or return.
Agree with other posters and part of my reason for buying was monitoring during non-exercise time so have to think about whether to hope 1.02 fixes it or return.
It would also mean a runner's heart rate would never be recorded while his arm is moving. My God if the $259 Fitbit Surge or HR can manage constant heart rate tracking, you would think that Aplle could.
What happens if the watch does not have enough battery power to get it thru the day with the HR sensor running continuously? This could be the problem and Apple knows it. I know we heard rumors before the watch was introduced about the battery not making it through the day. Maybe this is how Apple resolved it.
sleep tracking monitors don't usually track heart rate, least not every minute or every 10 minutes. It's not really relevant to sleep cycle monitoring, body movement - or lack of movement is the primary tracking vector.
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you can always turn off the heart rate monitor yourself via the watch app, many say they get 2+ days of battery life when it is off.
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When I have an ACTIVITY being tracked, I'm still getting readings every 6 seconds or so, shouldn't that be enough?
When tracking a workout it's still continuous and if it was in response to battery they wouldn't still have it attempt to take the hr, there wouldn't be any battery savings. It seems an attempt to compensate for the inherent problems with optical sensors and human biology but a poor way of doing it imho.
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!? The watch won't measure your heart rate IF YOU'RE IN MOTION?!? What the eff is the point then??? If I go on a brisk walk to another building at work, I have to START A WORKOUT?!? Or if I walk down the sidewalk to the store or walk around Disneyland. Or walk along the beach. All of these are things I regularly do. I have to start a workout in the Activity app every time I get out of my chair? Is this a joke...?
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@ckcb - can you please post a screenshot of your heart rate measurements on 1.0 showing readings every 10 minutes even while walking around? Even on 1.0 I'm not too sure it worked properly.
Yeah this is kind of absurd. I have a 38 and seem to have like 60% battery at the end of the day so I'd like to have the option to have constant measurements maybe have the minimum spread 10 min and user adjust to 15, 20, 30 min between readings to tweak battery impact. This just seems really bad. My resting heart rate is pretty stable so all this produces is a bunch of the exact same measurement. I'd be interested in how my rate changes as I'm active. Really disheartening to see that change.
I have been having this problem as well since the update and I'm not happy about where this is going. What I have noticed today is that it has only taken 3 readings since I put the watch on 5 hours ago. I think this is effecting the move calculation as it is showing that I have complete over half my usual move goal even though I have been sitting in a car for 3 hours.
Imagine you have done a gym session and you want to track your recovery time, you now need to stand still on the spot for the next 5-6 hours to get this data.
Recovery time is every bit as important as the workout itself. It shows your fitness level.
The Verge
Here's the Verge's link picking up on the 9-to-5 Mac story. I hope the momentum keeps moving. We may never get our fix, but we all deserve more than the dismissive explanation we've gotten. I honestly don't know I'm going to do with the watch now.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/30/8691513/apple-watch-sporadic-heart-rate-readings-explained
Here's the Verge's link picking up on the 9-to-5 Mac story. I hope the momentum keeps moving. We may never get our fix, but we all deserve more than the dismissive explanation we've gotten. I honestly don't know I'm going to do with the watch now.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/30/8691513/apple-watch-sporadic-heart-rate-readings-explained
Ive been watching Game Of Thrones for the past 3 hours and not a single passive recording has been made.
Im obviously not sitting still enough.
Pathetic
Im obviously not sitting still enough.
Pathetic
