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After the Apple Watch 1.0.1 Update, Heart Rate stopped working...

After I updated my Watch to 1.0.1, the heart rate monitor no longer monitors my heart rate in the background. It only monitors my heart rate when I ask it to take a reading.


This is really, really annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? It was working perfectly before the update.

Apple Watch, Watch OS 1.0.1

Posted on May 20, 2015 8:18 AM

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May 22, 2015 12:45 PM in response to Jcannonb

HR updates during workouts still worked on 1.0.1 but today I got just 1 (one) reading during a short run (instead of 5 per minute as usual) which never happened on 1.0. I was not able to reproduce it again though.

Another thing I noticed is that I'm no longer able to reach my active calories goal (not sure if this is due to the HR bug or because they were overestimating active calories on 1.0 and fixed it on 1.0.1)

May 22, 2015 1:31 PM in response to Ripl3y

Ripl3y wrote:


Me personally, I'd sit it out. I'm now having to wait for a fix 😟

It's ironic that for whatever reason mine is working exactly the way I want it to. When I'm at rest it records my HR every 10 minutes and when I engage an Exercise/Activity app it records several times a minute. I'm happy with it not recording a HR when I'm just running around or at work or whatever. Saves the battery. I just hope whatever fix comes out for the others doesn't screw up mine!

After the Apple Watch 1.0.1 Update, Heart Rate stopped working...

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