Apple Watch 3/Watchos 5 - Swimming not counting laps or calories correctly.

I’ve contact Apple on this a few times but I’m really pursuing it this time as it’s so frustrating! Their answer today was that the engineers say this is normal (my watch has stopped counting lengths and distance while swimming but when I end the workout the data appears) I’ve said that’s not a satisfactory explanation as when I bought the watch 12 months ago it tracked just fine whilst swimming and was really accurate! Not taking no for an answer this time!

yes, it's really frustrating!! It was ok when it was new. Now, the display does not show when i raised my wrist, even if i reset the watch and the settings are correct. To see the display you either tap the face or press the crown. I am thinking of getting another sportswatch.

Using model # 4, I had the same problem. As far as I know, this is a common problem, and Apple has not been able to fix it, which is very unusual for Apple, as they are the best when it comes to help.

Same thing has started happening to me.

series 3 been working fine for a year and now going wrong.

Doesn’t record lengths or distance in pool swim and during the swim keeps going back to the home screen. Also, calorie count is way out.

All 3 rings keep dropping down to zero then going back up.

The running man man icon is animating in the corner and then stopping for a second, not sure it was doing that before.

Tried everything mentioned here.

Really cheesed off. I use my watch to track my swimming everyday and it’s been faultless for a year.

I've been swimming all summer and loving being able to see my workout in progress on my watch, but it's been acting up since last week. Twice it's shown the distance as like 36,000 yards and once 0, but when I complete the workout it shows correctly. I will try the advice here and see if it helps for my next swim.

Same problem on new Watch 4. Worked the first swim. On the second swim it did not track my laps but did show the exercise in the activity loop. I'm new to the watch, so unsure of all the correct terminology. I did the power off app trick and powered off the watch and restarted. Will see what happens on my next swim. So frustrating. I kept stopping and trying to fix t no avail. Not sure what you mean by unpairing. Unpairing with my phone?

Same problem here 😟

I already tried to reset, unpair and pair it again. No success :(

I’m having the same issue after upgrading to iOS 5. Worked fine before. Now watch counts only a few laps.

Will try it today

Force quitting app didn’t work for me. Also reset the watch as a new watch, not back up

I tried your solution of force quit app. But it didn’t work also :(

No luck for me. Did what you suggested and when I went to swim this morning, same result. This time I swam 2,000 yards and the app said I swam 425 yards. It's really screwed up.