Apple Watch Ultra Heart Rate During Workout

Well I ordered it hoping for the best it’s preparing for shipping so I can’t cancel. I just wonder how pervasive the problem is ? Will I get lucky with this one ? Or just return it without opening it?

Btw maybe it’s a stupid question but will the garmin integrate with the iPhone ?

I have big wrist and wore tightly above wrist bone during run…same wearing position on the other hand with garmin which have no issue. It’s frustrating when you have a expensive ultra where you have to keep on looking at it during run instead of focusing on exercise.

Thanks for providing more information.

I went to Apple Store and they performed a check, no issue found (sensor).

I updated to lastest OS and will test it out with a run.

Im wearing the watch like this : Right Wrist / Digital Crown on Right Side.

Is your tasting happening recently and the issue shows up with latest OS update too?

Thank you!

This is interesting.Can you identify a clear pattern as inward or outward gives the same expected result all the time?

Just checking, how is your watch set in watch setting?Left or Right wrist?Crown Left or Right side?

Thank you.

I will try tmrw and will post the results here.

I’m sorry but that ‘scientific explanation’ is nonsense. Why did my AW S7 NEVER do it, even though I go on the same run every week at the same times of year?

mine still does this and it screws my VO2 Max calculations up.

Sorry to hear you have issues too, yep unfortunately quite frustrating.

I went for my second run after latest OS update and everything went smooth, still scratching my head trying to understand what could be wrong if you are experiencing this issue.

Apple is advertising Ultra as “Ultra Sport Watch” and to be honest, I can’t believe they are still suggesting the customers about how they wear the watch or other small things, I don’t think this would change much (what about I’m in the middle of a Ultra Marathon in the Desert with the hit, the sweat and whatever?)

The watch should be able (without hesitation) to perform the basic HR reading during a workout.This is my personal opinion.

My Garmin Fenix Pro 7 Solar is still stellar rock solid, never failed on HR recording.

I don’t agree with this either, I’ve been using Suunto, Polars, and Garmin for outdoor running in really cold temps , I mean 15 degrees and lower, runs for 20 years and have never had heart reading issues

I'd this problem yesterday for first time since I have the watch, not a particular cold day and I did some heating before starting the activity, so I don't think the explanation given here is valid for my case. I'm having other problems like sleep not tracking some nights and altimeter being off by a good margin when it used to work flawlessly. I'm hoping this is a 10.1 software issue and gets fixed soon...

But the thing is…I wanna remind to the Ultra watch trailer that is the Apple advertisement for the watch itself which shows different scenario in some semi-challenging conditions.

The watch should just keep and record these data without any problems.

Its just not good.

It's been a year, two generations of Watch Ultra, and we still cannot get fully functioning heart rate tracking during workouts. I would be happy to participate in a class action if anybody knows how to get the ball started on this.

You can call a class action lawyer and just ask what they think. If they think there’s a case there, they will take it on and there’s very little you need to do other than demonstrate the issue, show that it’s wide spread, and convince them what your loss is.

Given all the use cases for the watch, damages probably won’t be that high for inaccurate heart rate in some workouts, especially when you can mitigate with a $40 heart strap, but that’s how you’d do it.

If they think there’s a case there, they would take on and do all the hard work. You might get $25, but they’d make millions (a % of the total damages awarded).

I mean, it does not track HR at all sometimes. Also, that would be one of the main use scenarios for a sport watch no? It's a 700$+ watch, I bought the 2 as well hoping it would fix that issue specifically.

FYI, as an iOS developer, I received way more than 25$ in settlements, in two different occasions, due to Apple unfair policies. More importantly, a class action would bring this to Apple attention so we might get an Ultra 3 with HR tracking as good as the AW regular series.

I tried different straps and it didn't help, what is the 40$ strap that solves the issue?

This watch is so bad! I thought i had sorted it by turning watch off and on and cleaning the back and my wrist before i run but even this doesn’t work all the time. Super Expensive and cant give u a constant heart rate. Cant read the HR or gives me a reading way above what it is but the minute i stop running it goes straight back down to normal. And this ‘its the temperature’ rubbish as my last run it was fine for 50 mins then recalibrates and shoots up to 175+ and how tight it is absolute nonsense also. Poor product!!

Hello everyone I got my Apple Watch Ultra today on the mail and I been trying past couple hours doing the heart rate monitors. And it says just measuring and after that it doesn’t show the number. Can anybody help me fix it.

Today I did my 1st workout with my new Apple Series 9 watch. I had the same issue. It tracked my heart rate only sometimes during the workout. I was hoping that this intermittent problem was just a glitch with the older Series 5 that I owned for a few years. Alas, Apple still hasn’t fixed this problem in the Series 9. With my Series 5 watch, I tried all the possible settings and adjusted the strap. Nothing solved it.