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When playing tennis, at times my Ultra thinks I’ve fallen when I have not. How do I prevent this from occurring?

When playing tennis, at times my Ultra thinks I’ve fallen when I have not. How do I prevent this from occurring?

Posted on Jun 28, 2023 8:10 PM

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Jun 29, 2023 5:43 PM in response to dkh37205

I have an Apple Watch 8 and I play tennis with it on 3 times a week. The activity is not the problem. How is the fit of your watch on your arm? What exactly are you doing when Fall Detection gets triggered? Is your watch on the same arm you hit with? (Mine is not.)


Maybe this will give you some hints about this issue.


Neal

Jun 29, 2023 6:16 PM in response to Watzman

The activity is certainly the problem. The activity is activating the Watch technology to trigger Fall Detection. That technology involves the watch's gyroscope and accelerometer.


However, you bring up an important consideration, that is, on which arm dkh37205 is wearing their watch. The accelerometer & gyroscope are more likely to misinterpret swinging a racket and hitting the ball as a fall if the watch is on the arm in which they hold their racket when Fall Detection is triggered. That would seem especially true if dkh37205 is a player who can switch the racket back and forth between hands or has mastered the two-handed backhand.


I have accidentally triggered Fall Detection when playing with my cat with something as simple as pounding my palms on the floor, a bed or the sofa.



When playing tennis, at times my Ultra thinks I’ve fallen when I have not. How do I prevent this from occurring?

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