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What about Motion & Fitness in iPhone when having an Apple Watch
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Don't turn off M&F on the iPhone. As long as the watch and the iPhone is paired, you won't get duplicate data.
Put the AW as the primary source. The iPhone's data will be ignored when you have both the AW and the iPhone. If you have the iPhone alone, the Health app is supposed to use the iPhone's data for the duration when the AW is unavailable.
You can disable it on the iPhone if you want. It's up to you. Just note that there will be some issues, which may or may not matter to you.Than you for your answers.
As I understand the motion and fitness option must be enabled.
I would like to have the option to disable iPhone but anyway
1. You will no longer record activity during times where you have your iPhone, but you're not wearing the watch.
2. I believe that when you are doing an activity that uses the GPS, it will only use the AW's GPS if you disable M&F on the iPhone. This could lead to lower battery life on the AW.
Like I said, it might not be that big a deal to you. Just wanted to say that it's not required to have M&F turned on on the iPhone.
Then I will disable it! Because I don’t want to use iPhone as an activity tracker. When not wearing Apple Watch it is ok not to track anything. Exactly as a Garmin watch...
@ftaok you mentioned that the when doing an activity only the Apple Watch’s GPS will be used. I thought that was the case... Standalone watch’s apps use iPhone’s GPS?
@ftaok you mentioned that the when doing an activity only the Apple Watch’s GPS will be used. I thought that was the case... Standalone watch’s apps use iPhone’s GPS?
What I mean is that on GPS type workouts (like outdoor running or walking), the built-in workout app will use the iPhone's GPS when available. The benefit of this is that it saves battery on the AW. If the iPhone is not with you, then it will default to the AW's GPS, thus using more battery than if the iPhone was available.
Other workout apps behave differently depending on how that developer set up the GPS priorities. For example, the NRC app will use whichever GPS the workout was started from.
EDIT - actually, I'm not entirely sure anymore. The GPS is located in a different area (Location Services). I think Motion and Fitness only applies the the Mx chip in the iPhone (or AW). In any event, if you don't want to count steps using the iPhone, then you could just turn it off.
1) I just noticed that by opening in my Apple Watch these apps:
- ismoothrun
- runkeeper
- built in workout app
the gps (location services) icon is shown.
I guess that there is a “cooperation” between the two GPSs” as @ftaok pointed.
2) I will disable the motion and fitness and see how it will go. Hopefully there won’t be any issue with the Apple Watch.
- ismoothrun
- runkeeper
- built in workout app
the gps (location services) icon is shown.
I guess that there is a “cooperation” between the two GPSs” as @ftaok pointed.
2) I will disable the motion and fitness and see how it will go. Hopefully there won’t be any issue with the Apple Watch.