I am seriously at the end of the line with the Apple Watch. I just received my 3rd watch, this time upgrading to the ultra, and while I love the size and look and all that, I have a massive issue with this product.
I can’t even get 15 seconds into a workout without the watch pausing the work out. I do have some tattoos but my previous apple watches worked much better than the Ultra iteration. I don’t understand why apple doesn’t just put out an update that tells the watch, hey don’t fucking pause constantly during work outs.
It’s such bs because if I start a run and don’t initiate the workout on my watch, it will prompt me at the end of my run to record the workout, and all the data is recorded perfectly. But if I try to start the run on my watch at the beginning, every 10 seconds it pauses.
Seems like an easy fix to me, just eliminate feature that pauses workouts constantly, there is literally no use for auto pausing a workout, if we want to pause I will look down and press pause.
Boggles my mind they haven’t fixed this yet. I’ve seen some threads on reddit about this but I am curious to know how many others are affected by this issue?
It pauses because the watch starts recording heart rate almost constantly while you are in a workout, while it takes reading once every 4-5 minutes most of the time normally. It doesn’t use heart rate as a clue that you may have started a workout - it uses arm motion, and (probably) checks location services to see if you are moving in a way that suggests that you may be walking. But once you start the workout and it tries to read heart rate constantly and it thinks that you don’t have a heart rate, it pauses (probably assuming that you maybe you took the watch off of your wrist after forgetting to pause or end the workout.)
That’s just the way it works. I know you think it should work otherwise… but it doesn’t. Apple isn’t likely to change it unless enough people suggest the change, so use the Feedback form to make a suggestion.
Have you tried using the watch on your other wrist?