Hi
I suggest that you consult Nike's support resources and/or contact Nike for assistance with questions concerning the Nike+ Run Club app and its features.
If the feature is not yet supported by Nike's app (which has not been updated since July), you may wish to consider using the built-in Workout app. When using the Workout app on Apple Watch Series 3 models, elevation gain is recorded for Outdoor Run workouts without needing to take your paired iPhone along:
Is this true? I've been on a hike and run in areas without cell service and the elevation gain does not work unless I have a signal on my phone from what I can see. I'm using a series 3 GPS model watch.
Just did some testing and the watch does record elevation without the phone. I'm wondering if the walks/runs it didn't show values are because the gain was less than 5m or so.
I also set the metrics to show elevation before I started.
It’s possibly the Nike app as today I left my phone at home & cycled to work using the Strava app to map the exercise. When uploaded, all the data and elevation was perfect.
Try re-installing the Nike app.
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for the response and willingness to help out; however none of the above had worked prior to me posting this question. I have since returned the Apple Watch and hope that the next round will be better.
I had reached out to Nike Support and they told me that the Nike Apple Watch release should fix this issue. Maybe and perhaps, but I had done tests using RunKeeper and the built-in workout app without my iPhone near, and neither of those tracked elevation either, so I found that hard to believe.
As it was, I was nearing my 14-day grace period and promptly returned the watch. Maybe I just had a faulty watch (I even consulted Apple Help Chat and they were not sure what was happening, either). Nevertheless, I bought a Fitbit Ionic, which has been able to do everything I need it to do and more.
Hi,
I have the same issue with my AW3 Nike+.
I use only the Apple workout app.
I made lot of runs and outdoor bike with or without my iPhone.
Sometimes the gain elevation is recorded (I can see it on my AW during the workout and at the end I have the value in the workout app on the iPhone).
And sometimes it remains to 0 during all the workout and no elevation gain in the iphone workout app at the end.
Do you think it is an hardware issue? Or Software?
Elevation Gain on Apple Watch 3 Nike Run Club?
