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My watch thinks I've climbed 63 flights of stairs this morning!

iLondoner

iLondoner

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I get this occasionally, but not as crazy as today. Also 46 minutes of exercise when it should have detected about 25. The watch is a Series 4 non GPS. Today in London is warm and sunny. My fast walk this morning was 6,000 steps and 4km (2.5 miles), almost flat except a double flight of stairs over a railway bridge.
 
I think AW track any elevation change and it adds up, while my garmin seems to have have a minimum change per time in order to count. The garmin therefore only counts when I really did change floor.
 
My series 5 will not count “flights” unless they are stairs. If I climb a hill I get zero flights.
 
Today 19
Yesterday 26
Day Before 40

I have one flight of stairs in my house, I’m working from home so don’t spend all day running up and down.

I restore my phone for ios14 beta and I restored my watch too. But this issue of miscalculating flights has been going on for months.

I raised it with support but didn’t want to send my watch away and I don’t have AppleCare, so I guess it ain’t getting resolved.
 
I sleep with my watch on, so I can get my stand credit for my middle of the night trips to the bathroom. I have started noticing that by the time I get out of bed for the day that my watch will say I have credit for 10-20 flights of stairs (I have no stairs in my home). I have reset both my phone and watch and unpaired and re-paired. I am wearing a series 4 Nike watch.
 
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iLondoner said:
I get this occasionally, but not as crazy as today. Also 46 minutes of exercise when it should have detected about 25. The watch is a Series 4 non GPS. Today in London is warm and sunny. My fast walk this morning was 6,000 steps and 4km (2.5 miles), almost flat except a double flight of stairs over a railway bridge.
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I have the same watch and the same problem. Happened 2 days ago for the first time. 54 flights of stairs. Today was 56. Unless I’m running laps in my sleep....
 
I did an 8k walk yesterday and climbed... 360 flights. This is how it's done :cool:
Freakin sensor that can't be fixed.
 
Keniutek said:
I did an 8k walk yesterday and climbed... 360 flights. This is how it's done :cool:
Freakin sensor that can't be fixed.
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I am pretty sure the sensor is fine and it is just Apples software that add up every pressure change instead of e.g. minimum 3m continuert pressure change.
 
Because the sensor is a barometer, a weather change can cause false elevation changes. I've seen this with a Garmin GPS as well.
 
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I had the same problem with my Series 4. After cleaning the watch in an ultrawave bath the problem is gone. i have the habit of cleaning the watch under running water when I finish my workouts. I assume that the water is the problem because it has quite a bit of lime in it and that could inhibit the built-in Barometer in the watch.
Now I always start the “water” mode when I clean the watch and let the speaker spit out the water. I do that a couple of times and haven’t had the problem again

regards,
Pablo
 
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Significant1 said:
I am pretty sure the sensor is fine and it is just Apples software that add up every pressure change instead of e.g. minimum 3m continuert pressure change.
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Nah man. I got it replaced twice under the warranty (my buddy managed to do it three times) and it is a faulty sensor, that can't be fixed.
Between this and the "rattling" airpods pro, im getting pretty pissed.
 
pablito1972 said:
I had the same problem with my Series 4. After cleaning the watch in an ultrawave bath the problem is gone. i have the habit of cleaning the watch under running water when I finish my workouts. I assume that the water is the problem because it has quite a bit of lime in it and that could inhibit the built-in Barometer in the watch.
Now I always start the “water” mode when I clean the watch and let the speaker spit out the water. I do that a couple of times and haven’t had the problem again

regards,
Pablo
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Water can block the port where the barometer measures air pressure and cause erratic elevation readings as well. This, too, is a problem with standalone GPSes which have barometers.
 
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