It's can't be a "great" battery saving feature because my battery life is no better or worse. It might have 15 minutes impact but that's irrelevant.
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Heart rate updates after 1.01
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Whether an intentional change by apple or not, it doesn't work in a consistent manner like it used to, so it's definitely a bug.
Nor does it work in a manner consistent with Apple's own documentation.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204666
Bottom line is that as a competitive runner and triathlete, resting heart rate is every bit as important to me as me HR during my training. Even when it worked as advertised, the 10 minutes between readings was on the outer edge of it being useful. The Basis Peak was my everyday watch prior to the Apple Watch, and it measured your HR continuously, and logged an average every minute.
Resting HR is one of the most import indicators of recovery. If they don't change this, or ideally allow the user to configure the interval, mine is going back.
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Apple next product can run you over and then beat up your sister and people will see it as a "feature". there is no arguing with certain fans.
is this a feature? Hell no.
am I affected? hell ys
am I happy about it? Hell no! this is one and very features I actually still use since launch day
Heart rate updates after 1.01
I went to the Genius Bar last nite. 1st the genius had the same issue in his watch. 2nd I had previously reset the watch and done the pair:re-pair dance with my phone. What we did different is to reset all settings on my phone and after re-pairing the phone and watch all is back to normal this morning. YMMV
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Edit: I spoke to soon. After 40 minutes 4 perfect readings - fail---
As the genius suggested I'm gonna wait for 1.0.2
I went to the Genius Bar last nite. 1st the genius had the same issue in his watch. 2nd I had previously reset the watch and done the pair:re-pair dance with my phone. What we did different is to reset all settings on my phone and after re-pairing the phone and watch all is back to normal this morning. YMMV
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Edit: I spoke to soon. After 40 minutes 4 perfect readings - fail---
As the genius suggested I'm gonna wait for 1.0.2
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I agree. Mine is actually working correctly, or at least the way I want it to regarding the HR. But I went through the un-pair/re-pair dance for another issue and that was a big enough pain that I would never do it again unless I was having some major issue that I was certain would be corrected by doing this. To go through all that and then find it didn't help I'd lose what little hair I have left!
Letting the watch go for another 90 minutes I had 2 skipped readings and a manual reading that gave me only 1 reading not the multiples I have been receiving. It satisfies me enough to say the issue is not the watch but the connection between the watch and the phone. If that is 'wonky' then the results will suffer. I am convinced that a phone reset and pair/re-pair after reset solves the issue. YMMV
It shouldn't skip any readings. I doubt it is a connection issue if you are not seeing issues with messages, steps counting, etc.
Give it some more time ... It will get very erratic again .. I promise.
Mine works well while I am still (like sleeping), but gives very few readings otherwise. They most definitely changed something in 1.0.1 .. Let's just hope the fix it soon.
One of the posts above states they are also having issues with steps not being counted... is anyone else having issues with their steps not being counted, or is it only the HR side of things?
2nd thing to note: to the guys that are showing multiple readings per minute, were you on the HR glance at that time?
2nd thing to note: to the guys that are showing multiple readings per minute, were you on the HR glance at that time?
Take my post with a grain of salt. When I put back my Watch on this morning, it synced the steps across correctly. However, today my Watch didn't get any heart rate data for 4 hours after I put it on, and then sporadically the rest of the day. So, heart rate data is incomplete for now, and steps sometimes take a bit of time to sync, for whatever reason..
I've had multiple readings per minute. And today on an actual workout - I usually get 6 readings per minute (once every 10 seconds as it's supposed to work). However, I'm getting some that are 4 readings per minute and then 9 readings the next minute etc. Just weird.
Here's one minute of my workout where it took 12 readings!
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This is a repost of information i put into a post-1.1 cycling thread. Link
Similar problems when directly comparing AW HR to my polar FT7 & strap while spinning:
Additionally when not within the activity app my AW sometimes doesn't produce a HR data point for up to 3 hours!
Similar problems when directly comparing AW HR to my polar FT7 & strap while spinning:
- Very frequently AW HR is significantly lower then FT7 HR ( ~90 vs. ~160)
- AW Displays 'measuring' for extended periods of time (often this was while also displayed the lower HR)
- When looking at the AW HR data (within Health App), there are multiple ENTIRE minutes missing from the HR data (up to 4 minutes at a time) throughout the workout. (compare this other times using the activity tracking app and the AW produces 9-12 lines of data PER MINUTE!!!)
Additionally when not within the activity app my AW sometimes doesn't produce a HR data point for up to 3 hours!
Thanks for reporting back williamG, I was trying to find your original post to quote but couldnt find it!
Glad to hear it doesnt affect the steps as well. I would've thought that was odd to have the accelerometer go down as well!
So I take it even though the steps may be a little bit slow to sync over to the phone health app they are still showing up in realtime/ quicker on the watch and iPhone activity app?
Not sure. Maybe someone else can answer that. I didn't look in realtime.
I really hope Apple addresses the heart rate monitor issue speedily. It's a big one.
I just tested the glance readings and got multiples of four or five per minute. During workouts I get 12. At other times, for most hours there tend to be three normal readings, ie 10 mins apart then it might skip 20 or 30 minutes. Then there are occasional long intervals with a few hours missing. There's no pattern or logic to it.
WowTalked to Apple this morning about this issue. They insisted it was hardware and therefore overnighting new watch.
Why do I have a bad feeling I'll still have the same issue this time tomorrow
It is very strange.
With regards to multiple readings in a minute, that may be the reason for that side of things (the person was using the glances app, which I believes takes a good few readings per minute)
For everything else, I'm stumped! Just have to wait for Apple to update again.
Any official word from Apple?
We need a fix real bad. 1.0.1 appears to have messed up heart rate readings and notifications.
BTW, is there anyway to view heart rate date on a graph that shows a bit more data than what I think the Health app is capable of?
We need a fix real bad. 1.0.1 appears to have messed up heart rate readings and notifications.
BTW, is there anyway to view heart rate date on a graph that shows a bit more data than what I think the Health app is capable of?
Nope that's all you get in the health app and Apple being Apple they don't let any other app read the watch's heart data.
Clever eh!