When Start Workout Reminder is enabled, Apple watch will remind you to start a workout if you're running, walking, swimming, on the elliptical or on the rower.
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Not a good start with Fitness Auto start detection.
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How exactly is the watch supposed to know you are cycling? Automatic workout detection uses the accelerometer, not heart rate.
LOL! Not moving to Fitbit. The Versa was a horrible failure/joke on it customers. I like This app but their hardware is horrible.
Was biking yesterday. I tend to forget to end workout. After 3-4 minutes of walking I remembered but watch didn't notify me.
I mean, it's pretty easy to discern my pace has gone down a lot and I started swinging hands. Too bad, was really hoping for it. I have once forgot to end biking workout and remembered only after 30 minutes.
I mean, it's pretty easy to discern my pace has gone down a lot and I started swinging hands. Too bad, was really hoping for it. I have once forgot to end biking workout and remembered only after 30 minutes.
Normal pace walking wouldn’t be classed as a workout. I’ve never walked leisurely with my arms swinging.
Speed that walk up to a pace that’s raising the heart rate & glow of blood & most definitely classed as exercise. Once a certain pace & the arms will move , this is what should then start to trigger the automatic start. Increased pace , increased heart rate , increased arm momentum = C’mon Siri start this workout for me. It’s not always doing this so imo still too hit & miss.
LOL! Didn't ask you to move to Fitbit. I simply told you that the Fitbit Charge HR has been completely flawless in automatically detecting the beginning and end of a workout. If Apple cant do it, there's a flaw in their hardware or software, because a $150 Fitbit absolutely nails it.
It was well after 5 minutes when my alert came.
For a watch that can do so many other things,the cycling aspect of it is sub par.
No
I also had Strava running on my Wahoo computer and have a six minute time difference
Although Strava does auto pause. aka “cafe time”
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This is one thing I was really hoping that os5 would bring to the watch. My Ionic was awesome at picking workouts up after the fact and generally really close with the timing. I am not going back to Fitbit because I like my S3 quite a bit after a few weeks, but hope someday the AW reaches parity with Fitbit in workout detection.
That was the main thing I worried about.
I've been using Fitbit for years now and have been really happy with the workout detection, the step counting, sleep tracking... really everything it does. I got the watch for additional functionality beyond purely fitness tracking, but I really don't want to take a step back with that functionality.
I wonder if I'm going to be that guy who wears both for a while.