Noise monitoring

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Noise monitoring

Hello everybody.

My Apple Watch Series 4 (updated to the latest software version 6.0.1) seems to start the monitoring the noise level (and send reports in background to Health app on iPhone) only after I start the Noise App during a day. The day after, in order to start the background monitoring activity, I need to start again the Noise app.

I activated the Noise monitoring on Settings/Noise on both Apple Watch and iPhone app.

Is this behavior normal?

Thank you for your help

Apple Watch Series 4, watchOS 6

Posted on Oct 24, 2019 1:41 PM

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Answer 1

julieda

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Oct 24, 2019 3:11 PM in response to Ale-Eme

Here is how it is supposed to work.....https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/noise-apd00a43a9cb/watchos

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ChrisJ4203

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Oct 28, 2019 9:49 AM in response to Ale-Eme

The way that I read the document, you need to open the app to measure in the future.

Set up the Noise app

Open the Noise app on your Apple Watch.
Tap Enable to turn on monitoring.
To measure the environmental noise around you in the future, open the Noise app or use the Noise complication.

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Ale-Eme Author

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Oct 25, 2019 5:34 AM in response to julieda

Hi.

Thank you for your reply.

I checked the document: as far as I understand, the monitoring should always work when the function in activated.

I tested again on my Apple Watch today: I confirm that the “background” monitoring starts only after I open the Noise App on Apple Watch and the first measurement is done.

Could be a software bug?

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Ale-Eme Author

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Nov 4, 2019 8:54 AM in response to ChrisJ4203

Thank you for your feedbacks.

Problem seems solved now: even if I do not open the Noise App manually, Apple Watch monitors the noise level in background and iPhone records it. I checked it during last days.

I don’t know if something happened after I put the noise level in the main screen as complication.

Anyway, it seems to run properly, now.

if the situation will remain as it is, I will close this post as “solved”.

Alessandro

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Ale-Eme Author

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Oct 28, 2019 9:38 AM in response to julieda

Hi again.

Just for info, I noticed that every time I turn off Apple Watch, in order to start the background noise monitoring I have to start the Noise App manually.

Alessandro

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ChrisJ4203

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Nov 4, 2019 12:33 PM in response to Ale-Eme

You're welcome.

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