Spotty heart rate in Activity on watchOS 6?

[jon08]

Anyone else notice how since the latest update the first 5 mins or even more of the activity will often be missing the readings for heart rate? (Or include spotty heart rate readings?)

I have an AW4 and I had been very happy with it up until watchOS 6. Prior to that it was quite an improvement compared to AW3 in terms of heart rate readings, but Apple seem to have a taken a step back with watchOS 6 in this regard.

Disappointing...

 

[purpleparrotuk]

Did you ever fix this?

 

[jon08]

I think that with recent updates it works better again (like in pre-watchOS 6), at least as far as Walking workout is concerned... I have yet to test it in Running workouts tho.