Apple watch resting calories seem far too high

had the same problem, but

Interestingly got resolved today, the resting number dropped from 2300 to 1700.

I'm guessing it was pre-programmed like that for some reason, because there have been no updates.

Please can you confirm that the resting calories of 1700 was at the end of a full day, and not part way through the day?

I've had a call from an Apple Care Rep who has been told by the engineers that we should wait for an update. They're well aware of the problem.

A fix may be here for you... Watch OS 1.0.1 is ready for download.

Go to your Watch app on your iPhone and follow the prompts.

Fingers crossed!

A fix may be here for you... Watch OS 1.0.1 is ready for download.

Go to your Watch app on your iPhone and follow the prompts.

Fingers crossed!

Ah ha ! I checked earlier today but the update wasn't available then. I've got it downloading now. Will report back. Thanks !!

Sorry to report that Watch OS 1.0.1 does not provide the fix. Maybe the promised app update will do the trick?

Agree. The Watch update took around 20 minutes, but so sign of that issue being sorted out. I suspect the calculation is made by the App on the phone.

around half way through Monday, the number was 1700.

If I looked back at Sunday the resting# was 2300.

I had not received any updates, just happened to sort itself out.

It looks to me like a calibration thing, so just give it a few more days.

Doesn't the resting calorie figure increase throughout the day? Mine does ... it's on 2200 calories right now but will reach around 2650 by midnight in 3.5 hours time.

The problem is the resting calories start way to high and then seem to calculate and get increase throughout the day too high.

The number that it finally arrives at for resting calories is way over (for me by over 1000 calories) for most people.

Mine comes to over 2700 and every other tracker, calculation and even dunk test I have used is at between 1500-1700 calories.

Yes there is no "sorting out" or calibrating. If you see a resting calorie number for today that is being scaled by the number of hours that have passed. So at 12 noon it will show exactly 1/2 what the total will be at midnight. You can check this by doing the math and comparing it the overall resting calories for previous days (which are always exactly the same).

I though that the 1.0.1 update would fix the bug, but it didn't!

Please go to https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html to register your complaint. Maybe then the next release will fix the problem.

Thanks. I searched all over the Apple site and couldn't find that link.

Calibration thing? Sort itself out? LOL! Something needs to be fixed. I've had my watch since April 24th... day one! I've been wearing it 16 hours a day Including my workouts, etc... It hasn't sorted itself out, and the update didn't fix it either.

Please go to https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html to register your complaint. Maybe then the next release will fix the problem.