Excercise rings wildly inaccurate!

Why is my apple watch so inaccurate with the exercise rings? I take the same walk every day. A little over 2 miles and some days the rings more than close.Other days it barely moves. I set the walking activity for 2 miles which I surpassed by walking 2.19 miles which shows on my watch in the included pic. My phone also shows only 1/30 minutes of exercise and yet I walked over 5,000 steps at a decent pace. And of course as you can see the rings have barely moved. I have tried everything I could find on how to fix this from re-calibrating to turning off and on the fitness tracker, phone and watch and nothing works. The fitness app is a joke. As far as I'm concerned the watch is a piece of crap except for showing incoming messages and calls. A complete waste of money!

Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 5

Posted on Oct 16, 2020 5:17 AM

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Oct 25, 2020 9:03 AM in response to ArmMan1016

I spent over 2 days with chat support performing many

troubleshooting steps that I had already performed on my own previously. Even

being asked to completely wipe my phone by a senior advisor. After all attempts

and no change I was asked if a senior advisor could call me. The first person was

very nice and then decided that I needed the next tier of help so she said she was

transferring me to the Watch department. After some time on hold a person

answered who didn’t seem to know why I was transferred to him nor knew anything

about my case. When I asked if he was with the watch department, he said “I

know about watches”. However, it seems as though he knew little. His

explanation as to why my exercise rings are so inaccurate led to him saying that

it is older watch. He said the new watches are better but even his own series 3

doesn’t show accurate milage when walking. He said I could try to pair the

watch with a different phone??? My wife and I have the same 7 Plus. I really

couldn’t get clear answer on what pairing the watch with another 7 plus would

do. He also said the watch could be physically looked at for an outrageous

price of $159.00. (Almost half the cost of the original watch). At one point he

did mention that he could help me fix the random count down timer issue that

keeps happening in the evening with sometimes the alarm going when it was never

set by me, but never actually did tell me how to do this. I feel that this so-called

Nike version of this watch is a joke and so is your support for this issue. I

read many forums online and it seems as though many are having similar problems

with the series 3 without any valid solutions. The only thing this watch does

for me is save me looking at my phone for incoming calls or messages. Other than

that, it is a $400 waste of money.

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