Apple Watch only records a stand hour if I wildly wave my arms around while moving

If I'm up doing multiple things then I'm active, but it isn't registering that I'm being active. So there's an issue with my watch. But my watch is refusing to register activity short of putting in a workout or actively waving my arm like a lunatic.

It's not really that rare of an issue, which is why there are hundreds of articles about it that all say the same things - restart the watch, if that doesn't work recalibrate the watch and that'll fix it. Except in my case those didn't fix it.

Ironically, sitting and knitting records as a "stand" hour. Go figure.

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What I'm saying is that within any given hour, I've been up moving around the house, playing with the dog, etc for well more than 60 seconds at a time, but that little line won't fill in and if I get a notification (which I don't always even though they're turned on), it won't fill in until I wave my arm like a lunatic. I can be actively moving around the house and have been doing so for awhile (vacuuming for instance) and I'll get a notification that it's time to stand up. My watch is apparently broken and the "fixes" aren't fixing it.

Today, for instance, I've been at my desk no more than about 20 minutes at a time. The "stand" hour lines filled in don't include for 9-10 (when I was getting dressed and playing with the dog) or 10-11 (when I was making my tea and breakfast and gathering stuff requiring me to literally move around the house multiple times). Then again at 2-3 when I was digging through some boxes and moving boxes around and carrying things back and forth, which I did for about 15 minutes.

The calibration is broken in that short of crazy levels of movement it won't record movement. I've followed all the directions for recalibrating that and have dealt with multiple days of it saying "oh, you didn't move for 15 hours of the day thinking "okay, it'll finally recalibrate to my actual movements". I've followed the common recommendations, so I reached out the community to see how other people have fixed it or if it can just be disabled since it's useless.

I KNOW how to turn off the notifications, I want it to stop being recorded at all since it doesn't work.

It's just really frustrating when technology doesn't work as advertised. It's supposed to track activity in an hour (and yes, I know "stand" is a misnomer, but I used the term they use because that's what you generally do). Vacuuming or playing with the dog should be plenty of movement to "trigger" it, yet it isn't. It used to work, it's stopped working, I've followed the easy steps. Now I just want it disabled completely, not just "don't give me notifications" (which it doesn't most of the time anyway - at least if it did, I could get up and run around the house like an idiot).

At this point, this discussion should be closed because there's no helpful information. "Stand" calibration is borked on my watch and can't be fixed. I have no options to not have it messed up because apparently no one else has this problem (despite the literally hundreds of articles about this problem).

I hope the rest of you continue to have it calibrated well because if not, you'll see what I'm talking about and understand the frustration of a feature not working as advertised.