Q: Apple watch stand up notification even though i am standing

I get the same thing.

yes.  me too.  not accurate tracking at all.

The stand sensor doesn't have to do with your actual position in a room.  It can't measure altitude... It would have no way of knowing if it's 3 feet off the ground or 5 feet off the ground.  What it does measure is upward and downward motion with the gyroscope and accelerometer.  So when you don't move it more than a foot or two up or down for an extended period it assumes you are sitting and tells you to stand.  Its not broken or poorly calibrated, it just doesn't work the way you'd think it would to find out if you're standing.

Same problem. Really frustrating that it doesn't work accurately. Especially since you can't go in and manually edit the data.

My notification comes at ten till the next hour.  I could be standing and moving around for 30 minutes during that hour, sit at 40 after, and at 50 after it is prompting me to stand.  I definitely think it is a bug.  I have had days where I was moving all day long and I have yet to get a full Stand ring as I am not always moving at ten till the next hour.  After you are not moving for an hour is when it should prompt you to move again, like how the FitBit and Jawbone UP bands work. 

Mine tells me that I haven't stood up yet today, but it did somehow track my 3.5mile run.  Maybe it thinks I'm in a bed on wheels. 

It's cool with me if it doesn't work.  My life was fine before I had a device to tell me to stand up, but if it doesn't work they should remove it.

Watch OS update 1.0.1 fixes this issue. My phone or watch didn't prompt me to upgrade - I had to manually go to the app so run the software update. But now I get a full stand circle every day.  Bug is gone.

I have installed that update and I am still not standing ever according to the watch.

I use a stand up desk all day, too, and the Activity app is constantly reminding me to stand. I usually go all day without sitting.

I think Activity might be assuming a "sitting" position when the watch is horizontal, such as when both hands are typing on a keyboard. Then when you put your wrist down by your side, it might assume a "standing" position.

It doesn't do us stand up desk users much good, but I guess we don't really need to be reminded to stand.

I realize it is annoying to get the stand notification when one is standing.  I've receive it.

But, put yourself in the place of your  Watch; how does it know you are standing? From a programmatic point of view it cannot tell the difference between standing and sitting except movement.

GPS? Most GPS decoders aren't that sensitive – their margin of error is in feet, not inches (or meters, not cm).  And in my case, if I stand at my desk and my arm is hanging down it is only a couple of inches higher then when I am sitting with my hands at the keyboard. So location of the watch will not tell me that I've stood, as there is no way for the watch to tell by vertical changes that you are standing.  And even if it could sense an elevation change of a few inches, how does it know you are standing at a certain height vs. sitting?  You'd have to calibrate it and say "when the watch is at this elevation, I'm standing".  That would only work if you never go change floor (go upstairs or downstairs).

In these threads there are hopes that developers do better than Apple at this.  As a developer, I'm not sure what sensor in the watch would tell me your are standing  other than the movement sensor.

Is it perfect? No. But given today's technology I don't see how it could be any different.

Apple could add an, "I'm already standing" button to the notification so that the standup goal could be tracked more accurately.

yes update to latest ios but the bug still there..

irritating and disapoiinted

Well, I sometimes get reminders to stand about 30 seconds after I have already stood up. Some sort of time delay at work? An Apple Watch should be more accurate, surely.