After the latest Apple Watch upgrade my swimming app is missing lap count. On average it’s 2 laps per 10 laps. When I complete my 40 laps, the Watch records 36-38 laps
When I analyse the data, some Laps are 50s which is impossible for my speed. Others have way too long rest.
I also inherited the Watch 6 recently after apple launched Watch 7.
I reset the Watch & recovered by Watch for Watch 6. This new Watch 6 is experiencing the same issues
I believe the Apple Watches uses the accelerometer when we push off the wall to track our laps. Yes? This seems straight forward so I’m at a lost as to why the watch can’t track my swim workouts accurately.
I swam with my Garmin watch on the other wrist & the laps were tracked without an inaccuracies. My Watch 6 can track 29 laps against my actual 20 laps. Tried with freestyle & breaststroke. Same issue.
I believe the Apple Watches uses the accelerometer when we push off the wall to track our laps. Yes? This seems straight forward so I’m at a lost as to why the watch can’t track my swim workouts accurately.
I swam with my Garmin watch on the other wrist & the laps were tracked without an inaccuracies. My Watch 6 can track 29 laps against my actual 20 laps. Tried with freestyle & breaststroke. Same issue.
I am swimming with the Garmin swim 2 & the Watch 6 together to test the accuracy of both.
Honesty both are disappointing.
My earlier Garmin, which has only basic swimming functions is working extremely well.
I upgraded to Garmin & faced similar issues
It can’t detect my stroke type and the Apple Watch is better at this detection
The only problem with Apple Watch is that we cannot turn off the auto rest
Its the auto rest that cannot detect the Lap count correctly
i didn’t had this problem with Apple Watch until auto rest was introduced
The Garmin swim 2 also has auto rest inaccuracy and this is why both watches have problem
Only my old Garmin works
I turned off auto rest from Garmin and the lap count becomes accurate
I hope Apple Watch can turn off the auto swim as an option. This will help a lot
In the meantime I will try to improve my strokes for better detection and use this auto rest in the future
i have just purchased a swimmo and hope it’s better.
Yup, Garmin sometimes doesn’t recognise my strokes too. But it does track laps very well unless my laps are interrupted eg stopped to avoid another swimmer or moving too much while resting by the wall. I’ve been using a FR735xt for 3 years now.
Will explore Apple’s auto rest feature but I had swam without resting & the issue still persisted. A fellow swimmer had recommended My Swim Pro app but that didn’t work for me. Will try to ask for her help the next time we meet.
Meantime, the W6 is great & I still enjoy my swims even when Apple gives me double the distance. Haha 😂 🤣
Apple Watch swimming lap count problem
