My Apple Watch Ultra does not track swims correctly

Same problem here after the latest watchOS update. It’s frustrating; my Ultra is counting laps, distance, and strokes incorrectly. I tested it in a 50m pool and a 25-yard pool, and both times it was off by more than 20%(sometimes higher than the actual distance sometimes lower no pattern noticeable )! For such an expensive piece, that’s unacceptable!

Before the update it was absolute on point and I was happy but now it’s really bad 😖

I’ve had somewhat similar issue. My swing scores are absolute all over the place, wrong stroke identification and wrong lap counts. I tried apple support as well and after multiple escalations, was directed to health support and then eventually to engineers questions. I also had an issue with wrong meters. The watch kept logging my swimming as 7000m in just 4 mins. So frustrating. Engineers asked me multiple questions like how do I swim, do I do flip turns, do I push from the wall and also asked for where I go to swim(complete privacy violation). I even sent an email to Tim Cook which a pdf of screenshots. No response whatsoever. I’m switching to Garmin, Apple Watch Ultra is a piece of junk.

Same issue here. When i do 40 laps 25m each it counts over 60 laps. The swimming style is BS in my opinion, as my fitbit charge 5 that only costs a fraction of the apple watch ultra tracks the laps precisely. If they won‘t get this fixed this will be my last apple watch.

No improvements here. I’m waiting for sometime and then go for Garmin. Ultra didn’t deliver and it’s certainly not a good watch

It also happens to me. Initially it worked well, but now it tracks correctly backstroke and free style, but not breaststroke. Initially it did it accurately.

Any improvements on your side?

I used both watches simultaneously. Garmin is not good counting laps. It can overcount between 10 to 15% more!