My Apple Watch Series 9 is tracking incorrect standing hours

Hi, just wear my apple watch series 9 and after 5 minutes it shows 1 hour standing. Also daily as i am working all time sitting front of a pc it shows too much hours that i am standing. I know that it recognised hand motion but i believe that it counts wrong. Sitting about 8 hours (of course i stand some times but i can estimate those about an hour in total) the watch shows about 6 hours standing. I wear the watch on left hand so is not a pc mouse movement and not typing a lot. Any idea?



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Apple Watch Series 9, watchOS 11

Posted on May 19, 2025 10:50 PM

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Posted on May 20, 2025 1:03 AM

discjockeyr wrote:
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And also as was the watch on charging this morning and wear it for 5 minutes and count 1 hour standing. Then what is the use to count standing hours? Is just a fake measurement that did not respond to any reality


If your watch shows that you have been standing up, that does not mean, that you stood up for a whole hour.

The watch wants you to stand up at least for a minute per hour. Which can be counted within those 5 minutes wearing the watch in the morning. My watch does this while I prepare breakfast, for example.


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May 20, 2025 1:03 AM in response to discjockeyr

discjockeyr wrote:
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And also as was the watch on charging this morning and wear it for 5 minutes and count 1 hour standing. Then what is the use to count standing hours? Is just a fake measurement that did not respond to any reality


If your watch shows that you have been standing up, that does not mean, that you stood up for a whole hour.

The watch wants you to stand up at least for a minute per hour. Which can be counted within those 5 minutes wearing the watch in the morning. My watch does this while I prepare breakfast, for example.


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copied from: Apple Watch - Close Your Rings - Apple


May 20, 2025 12:45 AM in response to Ingo2711

Yes i can understand this but showing 6 hours standing while i was sitting is like i am waving my hands for 6 hours. Is not just 1-2 hours the difference is too much. And also as was the watch on charging this morning and wear it for 5 minutes and count 1 hour standing. Then what is the use to count standing hours? Is just a fake measurement that did not respond to any reality

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