False Heart Rate Data From Apple Watch

Hi,

I haven't personally experienced this with my watch (38mm sport, WatchOS 2.2).

I may however be able to provide a little insight into the issue:

Apple watch knows when it is connected to it's charger and will not trigger the sensor even if prompted, it seems most likely to me that a third party app is writing to your heart rate data in health.

To check, go to Health > Sources and listed under 'Apps' there should appear a list of apps authorised to interact with and write data.

You may want to verify that these apps aren't writing the data.

All the best and by all means keep me updated! 🙂

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Hi and you're welcome,

Just to clarify, has the issue been fixed now?

If you wouldn't mind, could you provide a screenshot of the graph when you were not wearing it so that I can have a look at the ranges and whether it is consistent or sporadic as this should help.

All the best and once again keep me posted. 🙂

Hi there,

Sorry for the slightly late reply.

At this point, I don't feel that there is much I can assist you with from the software side, unless it is some form of bug or weird feature present to all apple watches which seems unlikely.

I therefore reccomend gaining help of apple support as this could potentially be a hardware issue.

You can find apple support here:

https://getsupport.apple.com/

All the best and let me know if this is resolved, apple has always been completely competent in resolving my own issues so I am sure they will be able to do the same for you. 🙂

this happened to me this morning. I found heart rate data record in my health app. Even though the watch was on the dresser and off the charger. I powered off and restarted my watch. Will keep an eye to see if I have anymore false data. Might be my guardian angel tho

Yeah.

As I said but you may not have seen as it does not show up anymore, keep me updated. 🙂