Q: Exercise Ring in the activity app on Apple Watch
After many 3 mile walks every morning, I have noticed an inconsistency with my the Workout App and the Exercise Ring on the activity app. This morning's 54 minute walk (combination of hills and flat stretches) I only accumulated 32 minutes of exercise. I did check after the first 10 minutes of the walk, which is uphill, and the exercise ring only listed 2 minutes of exercise. 18 minutes into the walk at the first mile mark, the exercise ring was at 5 minutes.
I called Apple Care this morning and they said that the exercise ring only considers the arm movement tracked by the accelerometer, and I therefor muse have not been swinging my arm. I had assumed that the Exercise ring used heart rate in combination with movement. He said no.
In reading the article he sent me about the Activity app and a link within it to the Workout App, i spotted this paragraph:
If you need both hands while walking, for example to push a stroller, you can still earn Exercise credit by using the Workout app. The Activity app relies on arm motion and an accelerometer to track movement, whereas the Workout app uses a heart rate sensor and GPS.
This seems to imply that he Exercise App does feed into the Activity App for Exercise Credit. So my question if there is a developer from Apple on this board, what is the heart rate threshold for the Workout App to consider something Exercise Credit?
Apple Watch Sport 38mm, watchOS 1.0.1
Posted on Jul 31, 2015 9:07 AM