Q: Exercise Tracking - Total Fail
I've been using my Apple Watch for fitness tracking as advertised for 2-3 weeks, with generally okay results, but this weekend it has totally gone off the rails. Friday it worked fine. Saturday when I got up and removed it from the charger, the 'Move' and 'Stand' metrics were back at zero, but the watch had me 'Exercising' all night while the watch was charging (and no, I did not leave a 'workout' running). That morning I went kayaking for over an hour, with a 'Workout' set to 'Other' and while the heartbeat rate seemed to be working, I got credit for only 13 calories for 'Move' which is absurd. Meanwhile the 'Exercise' ring kept giving me credit as though I were running an all-day marathon.
I tried re-starting the watch by holding both buttons in until the apple logo appeared -- no help.
Sunday -- the same thing -- getting close to no credit for active Calories in 'Move' but now have credit for 376 minutes of Exercise despite spending most of the da on a sofa.
I get the feeling the 'fix' is going to be for me to wipe my Watch and start from scratch, re-pairing it to my phone? Does that mean all the settings I put in place for my Apps will disappear and I'll have to go through all of that again? I won't have to start from scratch with my Workout history, will I?
This is very disappointing -- continuity of experience is really important for this fitness tracking stuff.
Posted on Jun 21, 2015 3:38 PM
