I've just done a 30 minute outdoor cycle with my Dad (who also has a Apple Watch) and on both of our watches it has not credited the exercise on our rings. I've got 17 minutes of exercise showing and my Dad has 29 minutes, after we have ended our 30 minute cycle.
Anyone else got this problem?
Apple Watch, watchOS 3
Hi
To credit progress towards your daily Exercise goal, the Activity app aims to identify activity that equals or exceeds the intensity of a brisk walk. This requirement applies both during general daily wear and when recording workouts via the Workout app.
Exercise credit is awarded for each minute during which this requirement is met. It is likely that, during your cycling workout, you only met that requirement for part of the overall duration.
The definition of a brisk walk varies from person to person and depends on your personal information. To check that this is accurate - and to update it over time:
On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch (tab) > Health > Edit - tap and adjust items, then tap on Done.
Apple Watch uses different sensors and data sources to track the results of workouts, depending on the activity type. For example, with Apple Watch (first generation) and Series 1 models, the watch can access GPS data from the paired iPhone if it is taken along during outdoor walking, running and cycling workouts. Series 2 has built-in GPS.
During general daily wear and when using the Workout app to record workouts when GPS data is either not relevant or not available (eg Indoor Walk), the Activity app and Workout app track your arm motion (measured by the accelerometer) when estimating results including pace and progress towards the Exercise goal. For the best results, allow the arm on which you are wearing your watch to swing naturally as you move around and during workouts (where relevant to the activity type).
Calibrating your watch can improve the accuracy of estimations made by Activity app and Workout app. More information and instructions for calibrating your watch are available via the link below. The article also includes instructions for resetting existing calibration data and starting afresh. Resetting your calibration data will not erase your Activity history.
If you would prefer to receive Exercise credit for the full duration of your workouts, regardless of their estimated intensity levels, track them via the Workout app using "Other" as the activity type. This will credit one minute of Exercise for each full minute of the workout. Active calories will be estimated at a rate equivalent to a brisk walk or based on data recorded by the heart rate sensor, whichever is higher.
More information:
Hi
To credit progress towards your daily Exercise goal, the Activity app aims to identify activity that equals or exceeds the intensity of a brisk walk. This requirement applies both during general daily wear and when recording workouts via the Workout app.
Exercise credit is awarded for each minute during which this requirement is met. It is likely that, during your cycling workout, you only met that requirement for part of the overall duration.
The definition of a brisk walk varies from person to person and depends on your personal information. To check that this is accurate - and to update it over time:
On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch (tab) > Health > Edit - tap and adjust items, then tap on Done.
Apple Watch uses different sensors and data sources to track the results of workouts, depending on the activity type. For example, with Apple Watch (first generation) and Series 1 models, the watch can access GPS data from the paired iPhone if it is taken along during outdoor walking, running and cycling workouts. Series 2 has built-in GPS.
During general daily wear and when using the Workout app to record workouts when GPS data is either not relevant or not available (eg Indoor Walk), the Activity app and Workout app track your arm motion (measured by the accelerometer) when estimating results including pace and progress towards the Exercise goal. For the best results, allow the arm on which you are wearing your watch to swing naturally as you move around and during workouts (where relevant to the activity type).
Calibrating your watch can improve the accuracy of estimations made by Activity app and Workout app. More information and instructions for calibrating your watch are available via the link below. The article also includes instructions for resetting existing calibration data and starting afresh. Resetting your calibration data will not erase your Activity history.
If you would prefer to receive Exercise credit for the full duration of your workouts, regardless of their estimated intensity levels, track them via the Workout app using "Other" as the activity type. This will credit one minute of Exercise for each full minute of the workout. Active calories will be estimated at a rate equivalent to a brisk walk or based on data recorded by the heart rate sensor, whichever is higher.
More information:
Thanks for the reply but I have done all this and it was working before the WatchOS3 update. Surely if a workout is logged in the workout app (which it was) then it should count towards the rings, other or not. Logging this workout as a outdoor cycle in the workout app, as I have done previously with no problem hasn't registered.
As mentioned in my previous reply, it may help to recalibrate your watch:
Calibrating your Apple Watch for improved Workout and Activity accuracy - Apple Support
Ok. I'll try that. Thanks for the advice
You're welcome! 🙂
Surely if a workout is logged in the workout app (which it was) then it should count towards the rings, other or not.
No, not always. As Jonathan explained, the watch is checking the level of activity. If you are slowing down for a few minutes, because the traffic situation does not allow to proceed faster, or if you have to wait in front of a red traffic light, the watch will not register this part on the Activity ring. The only work-out app, that will credit the full time it is running towards the Activity ring, regardless of the level of activity, is the "Other" activity.
Thanks for all the replies. We have both just recalibrate our watches as suggested by Jonathon but we think it might be that we cycled through a forest and lost GPS temporarily and that is where the missing activity went
Workout - 30 mins Outdoor Cycle not credited on Exercise Ring?
