Right. I use that too, but they don't show up in the activity glance. Is that other screen/app you are displaying???
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Some Apple Watch Users Experiencing Issues With Inconsistent Heart Rate Data Following Update
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Right. I use that too, but they don't show up in the activity glance. Is that other screen/app you are displaying???
I've been getting a few other bugs since the update, including:
- Using the digital crown for scrolling stopped working (fixed after reboot)
- Passcode took 2 minutes to accept (fixed after reboot)
- Scrolling jumps to predefined offsets while you are still scrolling. It's very annoying to start scrolling and have the watch jump back to where it was before
I've been getting a few other bugs since the update, including:
- Using the digital crown for scrolling stopped working (fixed after reboot)
- Passcode took 2 minutes to accept (fixed after reboot)
- Scrolling jumps to predefined offsets while you are still scrolling. It's very annoying to start scrolling and have the watch jump back to where it was before
Having the same issues. Not happy at all with my Apple Watch after 1.01, even aside from the heart rate sensor issues.
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Same. Texts going to my phone and not the Watch. After looking at the phone, my Watch buzzes through the notifications.
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Yep. It's useless now. So frustrating. Wish I hadn't updated to 1.01.
I've had that happen twice with the previous (original) OS so I don't think this is a new problem. Powering off/on fixed it for me, too. Too bad the problem still exists, though.
I've had that happen twice with the previous (original) OS so I don't think this is a new problem. Powering off/on fixed it for me, too. Too bad the problem still exists, though.
Yes the digital crown not working was there in 1.0. I found force quitting whatever app and then reloading it fixes it. Still, not sure how a basic feature like this can be bugged like this since I noticed it within 24 hours of ownership. And if "I" noticed it, then I know zillions of other people did too.
Imagine that, new problems after an update. That's been the norm for Apple for a while now, hasn't it?
The first time I thought the crown physically broke internally somehow and then I was relieved that it was "only" a software bug.
I didn't know you could force quit apps on the Watch. Now I just Googled it and found out how. Thanks for the tip!
As far as I can tell, it's some proprietary Apple font they host themselves. I edited the Watch page directly, so I didn't need to use the font specifically. You can, however, save a webpage as a PDF and extract fonts using something like this.
I'm not sure this is true; this week I tried two different Polar chest strap HRMs against each other (one Bluetooth, one an older non-bluetooth model), and then against the year-old Polar monitor and the Apple watch paired with the Polar H7 Bluetooth monitor strap in two separate workouts over a measured course. In both cases, the test units gave different results.
The two Polar monitors were farther apart than the older Polar unit against the Apple watch paired with the H7 strap. Maybe there's distortion from having two chest straps on, but I don't see why as they use two different transmission methods.
The bottom line is that none of them are consistent, and I can't think of a way to find out for sure which is right!
Heart rate sensor always on
Something funny I discovered since .01:
1. remove your watch
2. Access the heart rate glance
Notice that now the green light stays on - on 1.0 it would understand there's no skin there and just stop.
Now, it stays on, and after a little while will start display a heartbeat!!
Apparently the air in my apartment is pretty healthy at 64bpm
My trust for these numbers just went down by a lot
Something funny I discovered since .01:
1. remove your watch
2. Access the heart rate glance
Notice that now the green light stays on - on 1.0 it would understand there's no skin there and just stop.
Now, it stays on, and after a little while will start display a heartbeat!!
Apparently the air in my apartment is pretty healthy at 64bpm
My trust for these numbers just went down by a lot
Something funny I discovered since .01:
1. remove your watch
2. Access the heart rate glance
Notice that now the green light stays on - on 1.0 it would understand there's no skin there and just stop.
Now, it stays on, and after a little while will start display a heartbeat!!
Apparently the air in my apartment is pretty healthy at 64bpm
My trust for these numbers just went down by a lot
I also manual checked mine in glances yesterday while I was out and it read 57bps. That is even a little low for me if I'm lying on the couch. And every time I check it, it's extreamly low.
Confirmed that mine is also messed up, after the update.
This is something Apple has to be on top of. HR monitor is one of its biggest selling features and they can't wait weeks to fix it. This should get at least as much attention as the iPhone update that killed cell service for a few days, last year.
There needs to be an update by next week. Updates for a health aspect cannot be delayed!
This is something Apple has to be on top of. HR monitor is one of its biggest selling features and they can't wait weeks to fix it. This should get at least as much attention as the iPhone update that killed cell service for a few days, last year.
There needs to be an update by next week. Updates for a health aspect cannot be delayed!
Something funny I discovered since .01:
1. remove your watch
2. Access the heart rate glance
Notice that now the green light stays on - on 1.0 it would understand there's no skin there and just stop.
Now, it stays on, and after a little while will start display a heartbeat!!
Apparently the air in my apartment is pretty healthy at 64bpm
My trust for these numbers just went down by a lot
Damn, your air is fitter than mine. My air has 104 bpm
The watch doesn't measure heartbeat automatically anymore ("last measured 6 hours ago") and hence doesn't seem to measure exercise. Despite burning 200 calories on a jog, I only achieved 2 minutes of exercise yesterday
HR Stops every time I go running
I use a BLE HR monitor on my phone to send data to endomondo and ismoothrunning so I know I have a heart beat. But the apple watch consistently stops sending HR data when I'm active.
If the health data gets split between resting HR, and active HR that would actually be very useful. Not sure what Apple is up to here, would be nice if they told someone.
A doctor seeing an 170bpm HR at 5:30am every day might be concerned if he didn't know I was running. (or jealous...)
I use a BLE HR monitor on my phone to send data to endomondo and ismoothrunning so I know I have a heart beat.
But the apple watch consistently stops sending HR data when I'm active.If the health data gets split between resting HR, and active HR that would actually be very useful. Not sure what Apple is up to here, would be nice if they told someone.
A doctor seeing an 170bpm HR at 5:30am every day might be concerned if he didn't know I was running. (or jealous...)
Could be explained by "omg omg I have an Apple Watch I have an Apple Watch" heart-rate goes up. "Wait, it's a watch. It's a watch. I paid $600 for a watch." heart-rate goes down. "But ... omg omg I have an Apple Watch I have an Apple Watch" heart-rate goes up....
I have not been using the heart rate function so I turned it off a while ago. After reading this article I turned the function back on and it was not reading at all. I discovered that after turning on fitness tracking it was working as normal. Before the update only the heart rate monitor was on for it to work correctly. Now it appears fitness tracking needs to be on as well. I don't track fitness so I have no idea if that's working correctly, but it does seem this update his some unintended issues on my watch.
Oh? Does it need to be switched on in the iPhone too? I turned step/fitness tracking off on my iPhone because it was basically measuring everything twice (steps were being measured on both my watch and phone)
I will look into that. I have always controlled most of the settings for the watch on the iPhone watch app so I haven't bothered going deep into settings on the watch.
