Standing calculation is way too long
It shows that I stood for 3 hours when I had only stood for a maximum of half an hour including registering an hour of standing when I had only been out of bed for 25 minutes.
Apple Watch SE
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Stand is not about duration. It is just whether or not you were recorded as standing for a brief period of time each hour.
So get up and walk around, swinging your Apple Watch arm for a minute or 2 and you will get a stand credit. You may sit back down and work on your Mac.
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The Apple Watch does not really know what position your body is in. The Apple Watch uses the accelerometer to determine that your Apple Watch arm is swinging as you are walking. It takes between 30 and 60 complete cycles of back and forth, normal walking, arm swings in a short period of time before the Apple Watch decides you have accomplished your “Stand” for the current hour. If you interrupt the arm swinging for a few minutes, it will reset, and you have to start the 30-60 swings over again. Later in the day, it seems to require more arm swings, or if you keep having incomplete stand attempts, in the Apple Watch's opinion. In reality, you can just gently wave your arm around 30-60 times in a short period of time and get stand credit. Knitters, sitting in a chair, always get their stand credit and huge step counts. Professional Chefs, on their feet, working in a kitchen all day, miss their hourly stands, because their Apple Watch arm is often holding food being chopped, or carrying something when walking, or holding a pot, pan, etc… No 30-60 arm swings in a short period of time, then no stand credit.