Apple Watch counting too many flights
Since 3-4 days I noticed a sudden increase of flights. Tried to restart, but nothing helps. 84 flights in a day? I wish 😀
Apple Watch Series 2, watchOS 4
Since 3-4 days I noticed a sudden increase of flights. Tried to restart, but nothing helps. 84 flights in a day? I wish 😀
Apple Watch Series 2, watchOS 4
I tried your method: I was wearing my AW4 2 days, then left it uncharged overnight. After ~10h I charged it and itâs again counting flights that I didnât climb. 103 flights today which obviously is false.
I tried your method: I was wearing my AW4 2 days, then left it uncharged overnight. After ~10h I charged it and itâs again counting flights that I didnât climb. 103 flights today which obviously is false.
It could be that the sensors are not calibrated properly. You can calibrate your Apple Watch using the steps on this article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204516.
Oh boy :/. I wish I knew exactly what happened to my watch so I can share with everyone. I thought that the battery incident was a pretty good bet.
I can fully confirm, though, that my watch is no longer over-counting flights. So far today I have zero flights climbed which is accurate.
Unfortunately problem still there. We should take the good side: 80 floors per day itâs a nice achievement :-) Joke aside, as the phone is still in warranty, I thought to call Apple and claim repair. Didnât do it yet.
I have the same issue since January. Hundreds of stairs climbed per day. This week I sent my Apple Watch S4 to Apple Support. It has been marked with âNo trouble was foundâ and itâs on itâs way back to me. Pretty disappointing.
I did everything with my apple watch 3 , but the watch doesn't get listed as a data source in the flights sub category in the health app , until that happens it is not going to track flight climbed.
App.support is clueless on this
I had this problem with my 4 one year ago and, after many conversations and attempted fixes, Apple replaced the watch. About two months ago I started having the same problem with the new watch. Calibration may make sense for two dimensions but it does not affect the altitude measurements. I walk the same trail every day and the watch shows elevations gains ranging from 600 feet to over 2000 feet. I have registered over 300 flights climbed several times.
I stumbled on an accidental fix. Try this: let your Apple Watch battery die. After that, wait 3 or more hours before charging it again and see if that resolves the Flights Climbed over-counting issue.
Below is the full story:
For about two months my AW4 was way over-counting Flights Climbed. Yesterday morning I noticed that Flights Climbed was 0 after I made my breakfast instead of the usual 10 or so. I have been monitoring since and I can confirm that the issue has been resolved. Story below and I would be interested to hear how it started (and hopefully ended) for you as well.
On April 4th I was working on a large yard project and decided to run continuous heart monitoring through the Cardiogram app. I ran it for 10-12 hours. Flight over-counting started precisely on that day, over 200 flights climbed (in reality it was probably less than 10). Watch continued over-counting till May 31st.Â
On the morning of May 31st, I decided to do a 45 mile bike ride, which is more than any exercise activity I have recorded on the watch previously. The watch activity app ran for 4 hours, 3 of which I was active. Watch continued to over-count flights that day.
May 31st night, I decided to sleep with my watch on without realizing that the battery was critically low (due to the 4 hour activity). Watch died around 2:15AM, or at least that was when the last heart rate reading was taken. I put it to charge when I woke up at 5:00AM and left it till 8:00AM. Since then, over-counting has stopped. The only two special events that happened prior to this resolution were the extra long exercise and the battery death. I am leaning more to believe that the battery death is the culprit.
No problem. I think the trick was that the watch sat for a few hours between when the battery died and when I charged it. When the watch turns off the battery will still have some power left. Leaving it uncharged for a while will make sure it completely drains, at which point the whole watch will lose power, and I am guessing that the power loss is what resolved it.
Tried that fix yesterday. Battery was depleted by 8 pm and I did not recharge until this morning. After a relatively sedentary two hours I have 19 minutes of exercise and 25 flights climbed.
I was hopeful this fix would work but obviously has notâat least for me.
This might be a problem with the barometric altimeter settings,and they need to be reset by unpairing and re-pairing the watch.
Not working, unfortunately, but thanks.
eralhar has your issue been resolved? any solutions you can share?
Same issue here for the last 2 weeks. AW4 latest firmware.
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your experience. My watched died as well last week, but this didn't solve the issue.
Will download the lastest upgrade as maybe this the real helper.
Apple Watch counting too many flights