I am frustrated with the activity app on my Apple Watch 3. When I do an outdoor walk pushing a stroller it will measure time, heart rate,nets., but not distance. Fitbit will do it - why not the watch?
iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1
Yes I have measured the distance walking without the stroller. However with my iPhone in my pocket I can get accurate measurements with the health app so I guess I will have to be happy with that.
You are truly special in trying to help with this - I really appreciate it! You were much more helpful than Apple Tech Support!
Thank you! Cool. I do see the route, but nothing telling me the distance I walked. Of course, my arms are not moving when I am pushing the stroller so it shows I only walked .08 mile when I know I walked well over 1/2 mile. Guess it can’t do it unless I strap the watch to my ankle, but I appreciate learning about “route.” Thanks again!!
The map correctly shows the route. It is the distance that is wrong And I can see, as I walk, that it is not correctly counting my steps. Guess I need to strap the watch to my ankle, but my daughter’s Fitbit does the job correctly - very frustrating, but thanks a lot for your help!
jane2936
FYI: The colors indicate pace: Green/Fast, Yellow/Slow, Red/Stopped. If you'd paused the workout (or lost GPS) but continued to walk, there would be a dotted line.
This is strange I agree, but I think the stroller may be a "red herring"? Just to confirm, do have a previous walks on the same route without the stroller that measures the distance correctly?
Also look in the health app to see if data is missing there to the time of walk.
jane2936:
When you scroll down on in your selected "outdoor walk" in the Activities app on your iPhone, you don't see the route of your workout?
Does the distance covered on your route map differ from the distance indicated under word distance?
The route distance and the distance under “distance” are the same but they are definitely wrong?
By "wrong", are you saying the GPS locations given on the route map don't correspond to the path you walked?
On your map, you see the the path you took marked correctly with the correct beginning and end as illustrated in the image below?
Here is an image of my route which is clearly more than 0.08 mile???
How to measure distance I walk with Apple Watch 3 pushing a stroller
