I wish they let you set when the break between days is. Here I am, posting after midnight, and I would like the boundary between activity periods to fall during the time that I am asleep. I'd like to move to 4AM or so.
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watchOS 7 Lets You Customize Stand Hours and Exercise Minutes
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24 Possible and if you add the day before (no breaks in stands between days) then i've had 41hrs
Well, you could still cheat before, just not by artificially lowering the goal. I’ve cheated on the Stand ring one day a few years back when I was stuck in bed with the flu. I still didn’t make it, though.
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If we take out the WatchOS 7 goodies (watchfaces, deeper customisations etc), I'd like to know what are the real benefits of the AW6 for an AW4 user. The O2 meter, a brighter display, the U1 chip, and.. that's it? What about battery life?
luckily or unfortunately with COVID-19 this isn’t so much an issue anymore
Because it's not really about standing, but standing up and walking a little bit
I think somewhat depends on your job and family situation. I’ve been flying once a week, internationally through COVID. And this Apple Watch issue with time zones is annoying as all hell.
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Same. As a night person this it's very annoying to be unable to meet my goals simply because I got up too late. My days also move around a bit, in weekends I get up later and go to sleep later than during the week. It should start the day when I unlock the watch in the morning.
Exercise ring wise it seems really weird that 20mins of walking is the same as 20mins of running. I walked 26miles and scored way better on that ring than had I ran the marathon distance, ridiculous.
I think it is a good addition, especially for the stand goal. Maybe I've closed my exercise and move rings, but I still need to have the watch on to close the stand ring because I've only had it on my wrist for 10 hours.
As long as I don't spend the entire day on the couch or sit at my desk, I don't see why I must have a stand goal of 12 hours...
As long as I don't spend the entire day on the couch or sit at my desk, I don't see why I must have a stand goal of 12 hours...
YES! I absolutely DESPISE the stand ring. I miss the prompts all the time and I think maybe after you miss one if stoops promoting you because some days I’ll look and I’ve somehow missed 3 hours in a row and it makes me so mad. Especially since I work standing up. All day. I don’t even own a desk chair. It’s such a pointless ring. I’m setting it all the way down to 6 because it’s utterly pointless and it’s so infuriating that I’ve long since stopped really caring about it (although it still bothers me not to have a “perfect” day). I VERY often have days where I do 1.5 or even 2+ hours of exercise (say a 30 min run and a 2 hour skate or 1 hour yoga class) and burn over 1000 calories but the stand ring still doesn’t close because yah… maybe I was at my stand up desk coding for a few hours or whatever. Yes I KNOW it means “move around a bit every hour” not literally stand… but don’t tell me I’m unhealthy working at a standing desk and doing hours of running + yoga everyday etc. The stand ring is BS. Thank you Apple! THANK YOU!
It’s about setting goals that are appropriate to you so you better yourself. Thinking about cheating the system for awards is quite short sited.
What about people with less mobility who have NEVER closed their rings because it has been physically impossible (and therefore a turnoff for self improvement) but if they can change their goals they can start to hit them?
What about people with less mobility who have NEVER closed their rings because it has been physically impossible (and therefore a turnoff for self improvement) but if they can change their goals they can start to hit them?
Well you can't beat the math of time zones, so what is there to code? I never observed what happened during a time zone change, but I'd assume by the time you switch the zone, it just begins to add to the hour it leaves you.
Same. I don’t even own a desk chair. I work standing up all day. I also run almost every day and very often will also go skating (as a figure skater I skate year round) or a hot yoga class and I can still end up with an open stand ring… the majority of the time. But oh if I wiggle my wrist for a minute I close that ring and I’m suddenly healthy. LOL
Exactly. For someone who’s never excercised a day in their life who may be morbidly obese or physically challenged or face other challenges etc. maybe 10 mins is a good goal for them just starting out. This allows them to be MORE motivated because they can set goals that are acheviable for them. So the watch becomes a good motivator for them instead of it feeling like it’s always telling them they’re not good enough which is actually very demotivating.
I’ve figured out how to cheat the stand goal. If I know I’m not going to stand up within that hour, I put the watch on my other wrist. it tricks the watch some how. I’ve managed to trick it into thinking I’ve been standing when I’ve in fact been lying in bed.
Add me to the chorus of people who would love them to implement a rest day feature. I’m at a 500-something day streak and I just want a ****ing day off without breaking the streak. I’m in too deep to break it now. But god I’d love a day off. It’s actually not healthy, we need our rest days.
Add me to the chorus of people who would love them to implement a rest day feature. I’m at a 500-something day streak and I just want a ****ing day off without breaking the streak. I’m in too deep to break it now. But god I’d love a day off. It’s actually not healthy, we need our rest days.
I only wear the watch during workouts. It’s the only reason I bought it. Glad they changed this because I could never close the stand ring and don’t care about it.
Well, I found Garmin "Unproductive" or "Productive" stats are more meaningful, close the ring isn't bad, but clearly message is less powerful.
Even with VO2 indicator shown in superior but stats is still unproductive, literally Garmin says "Hey you, getting off **ck from recovery and start training right now!!"
But well, I understand since AW isn't training focused watched, so for general exercises watch for mass should fit the bill.
Even with VO2 indicator shown in superior but stats is still unproductive, literally Garmin says "Hey you, getting off **ck from recovery and start training right now!!"
But well, I understand since AW isn't training focused watched, so for general exercises watch for mass should fit the bill.