Apple Watch Ultra Open Water Swim - Wrong Distance, Faulty GPS Track
This is my third time posting in Apple Forums regarding the AWU. I bought the AWU the day it came out. I am using it to track my daily open water swim trainings out in the Aegean Sea. More than 50% of my swim sessions have wrong data. AWU calculates extra distances due to faulty GPS points and bad tracking for some reason.
Example: last weekend I swam 7km whereas AWU thinks I did 8.5km which is impossible. When I checked the map, I see that the GPS track has bad points, loops, turns etc, whereas I swam continuously straight without stopping. There wasn't any current, wave, wind, nothing, flat and calm seas. Same problem keeps happening during most of my open water swim training sessions. Attaching some screenshots.
Dear Apple, I need a solution for this, it has been months. I love my AWU and it's smartwatch features but unfortunately it's GPS simply doesn't work and is not reliable in the sea. And I rely on this device to improve my competitive timings.
When the GPS works, I would say 40% of the time, it gives a perfect GPS track and map, however it's absolutely not reliable.
Notes:
- I am swimming freestyle stroke, I know that GPS signals disappear under water thus I don't swim breaststroke. All these problems occur during freestyle swim.
- I use "Precision Start" function and wait for perfect GPS lock. Doesn't help.
- I don't wear any other metals etc on my body, I simply swim with my Speedo and that's it.
- Running the latest Watch OS 9.5.2
Looking forward to hearing from you Apple, oh and please do not suggest that I reset, re-calibrate my device. I did those a couple of times including unpair, full reset, recalibration etc. None of them work.
Apple Watch Ultra, watchOS 9