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I’ve been puzzling over this for a few hours now. I can’t seem to make elevation work.
It worked initially when I had the watch but now it’s just showing nothing. The location services are turned on, privacy settings seem ok. I’ve not changed any settings related to the compass. Power cycled the watch, but not reset it, as introducing Apple Pay again can get dicey.
Is my Apple Watch 6 broken or is there some way of fixing this?
Apple Watch
hmmm - something is very off. The iPhone is correctly showing 30m, and the Watch has just started showing an elevation of over 200m. That's so wrong its laughable.
Does anyone know if the barometer can be calibrated on the Apple Watch 6, or has the hardware failed?
I bought an Apple Watch 6 this morning. I have the same problem, my watch shows an elevation over 200 m higher than real. Did you resolve this with something? I'm tempted to give back the watch if it's not working properly
Actually yes. It fixed itself. I keep wondering whether they can’t handle certain pressure systems or it had bad elevation data from poor gps coverage. Something gives it a bad elevation reference point.
I would wait a week or two before committing to it being broken. It’s really rare for modern Apple devices to have faults. They make so many, it’s in their interest to have fault levels well over 1 in 10,000.
Worst case, go for a walk and let the gps really lock in.
Also, the pressure gauge is very sensitive. If it adjusts by going up/down stairs it’s probably fine. Just with a wrong reference point. Annoying, but fine.
Roll on the next Watch OS update.
I have the same problem.
My apple watch in application Compass show all day about 1800meter higher than I realy am.
Aplication, which read altitude from GPS shows good altitude.
Restart doesn't fix it.
After two weeks of using it, my watch works very good now. I guess that it takes a couple of days to calibrate itself.
After 2 days the altitude return to correct value.
I think that it help to start some app which use GPS. Barometric sensor is calibrating when using the GPS.
Elevation Doesn’t Work / Broken?
