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Apple Watch not counting laps

My watch is not counting my swim laps. I set it to 25 m and can do 8 laps of backstroke and it doesn’t count any of them. I can also do a similar amount of freestyle and it counts minimal metres sometimes doesn’t event account for 1 lap. If however I do breaststroke or sidestroke it counts all. Very frustrating as I don’t want to spend all my session doing breast and side to get to one kilometre. Any suggestions?

Posted on Mar 15, 2018 9:05 PM

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