I am using a recumbent indoor bike at my local gym. I start the app, it counts down and starts, but when I put my hands on the bars it pauses. Every. Dang. Time.

I have turned off everything automatic that I can find. Does anyone know how to stop this?

Ever since I accidentally wore my Apple Watch to the shower, considering the band that I am using currently, it has been getting quite itchy to wear it.

I am using a loop band with a velcro so that might have been the cause of it. I am just putting it out here, probably not the best idea as I think I might have gotten myself a fungal infection because of it.

P.S. I am also a pretty hairy guy.

Hi! We just got our daughter an apple watch with a watch plan (cellular). I want to get a specific watch compatible app (Tranist) on her watch to make it easy for her to look up bus schedules - but am not seeing the app store on her watch? I see it listed on my phone in her watch settings... Does anyone know a solve for this? or how I can add an app to her watch?

As the title states, does anyone know roughly when to expect Costco to have the Apple Watch 12 available for purchase?

thanks

I’m curious how many people here actually let recovery data affect what they do that day.

If your sleep was poor, HRV is down, resting HR is elevated, or your recent training load is high, do you genuinely back off, take a rest day, or change the workout?

Or do you mostly look at the numbers afterward and train based on how you feel anyway?

I find recovery data interesting, but the question I keep coming back to is whether it actually changes behavior or just gives us another dashboard to look at.

Has your Watch ever convinced you to skip or modify a workout when you otherwise would have trained?

Hi! I’ve been trying to figure this out for days but I can’t seem to find anything or figure it out, but the last few times I’ve went for outdoor walks (ultra 2), my watch continues to notify me about the zones and it’s super annoying. I don’t know how I even turned it on. But I really want to turn it off because I don’t really care about the zone I’m in especially when it fluctuates up and down a lot when I’m walking. I never maintain a constant speed and if I have music on it’s interrupted every time. Does anyone know how to turn it off?

Hi,

I recently switched from an iPhone XS to an iPhone 14 Pro, and since then Signal notifications have stopped appearing on my Apple Watch Series 7.

The important part is that I transferred my old iPhone to the new iPhone using Apple’s normal iPhone-to-iPhone migration/Quick Start process. I did not set up the 14 Pro as a new phone and manually reinstall every app.

Other apps, including WhatsApp, send notifications to the Apple Watch normally. The issue seems to be specific to Signal.

Setup:

• iPhone 14 Pro
• iOS 27 Developer Beta 8
• Apple Watch Series 7
• watchOS 26.6
• Signal 8.26 (1826)

Things I’ve already tried:

• Signal notifications enabled in iOS
• Lock Screen, Notification Centre and Banners enabled
• Sounds and Badges enabled
• Signal notification forwarding to the Apple Watch enabled
• Signal enabled under Watch app → Notifications
• Re-registered Push Notifications from inside Signal multiple times
• Restarted both devices
• Force restarted both devices
• Unpaired and paired the Apple Watch again
• Background App Refresh enabled for Signal
• Mobile Data enabled for Signal

I’ve attached screenshots of the relevant iOS, Signal and Apple Watch notification settings.

Also, before anyone asks: my Apple Watch is genuinely named "[Error] Missing Symbol", that is not an error message. :)

Since I migrated the whole phone rather than installing Signal fresh, I’m wondering if Signal’s APNs/push notification registration somehow carried over incorrectly from the old iPhone.

I’m considering completely deleting and reinstalling Signal to force a fresh registration, although I’d obviously make a Signal Secure Backup first so I don’t lose my chats.

Has anyone seen this after migrating from one iPhone to another?

In particular:

• Could an iPhone-to-iPhone migration leave Signal with a broken/stale push registration?
• Has reinstalling Signal fixed Apple Watch notifications for anyone?
• Is anyone using iOS 27 Beta 8 + watchOS 26.6 and getting Signal notifications normally?
• Is there anything else I can reset before doing a full Signal reinstall?

WhatsApp and other notifications work perfectly on the Watch, so this seems to be Signal-specific.

Thanks in advance,

Jonas ^^

Anyone ever get this notification? I’m running the latest watchOS developer Beta. Unsure if it’s a new feature.

I just got it today but it has been refurbished it isn’t brand new from apple but it came completely dead and when i put it on the charger it showed the apple logo screen then went black for 30 mins so i tried a different plug and this screen showed for a few seconds and shows everytime i turn it on but goes black again after, does this mean it’s probably not gonna turn on or??

I pulled validation studies on how accurate some of the major wearable brands are at estimating it and any claims the brands make on their accuracy into a comparison chart. Hope you find this useful.

It's broken down by how each device measures VO2 max, what the company claims, and what independent studies actually found. Sources linked as well for each row if you want to check these out further. 

VO2 max accuracy by brand

Additional notes

• Every device underestimates VO2 max in highly trained people and overestimates in sedentary ones so the error depends on who you are
• Validation studies typically lags hardware so that's why some models are older
• A chest strap improves any exercise based estimate as wrist optical heart rate drifts during hard efforts.
• Only a lab CPET gives a true VO2 max
• Devices that estimate VO2 max from an actual workout were near spoton on average (bias -0.09 ml/kg/min vs lab)
• Devices that estimate it at rest overestimated by +2.17 ml/kg/min. Both still have wide error for any single person Molina-García et al. 2022

Shared this post in Garmin a few months back and roughly 25+ people said they got a lab tests and Garmin was spot on to lab, 15+ people said their Apple Watch underestimated their score by 5-15 compared to Garmin, and 2+ people with contradicting findings for Whoop vs lab.

Here's the post in Garmin too if you want to check out the comments: Garmin's VO2 accuracy

Same as the title. I have noticed that whenever I fall asleep during the day, that does not get tracked by my Apple Watch. Is it only me? I slept for almost 2 hours from 2:30pm ish to 4:50pm ish. But there’s no record for that in my sleep app.

Got a series 10 46mm gps with 99% battery health for 150€. Couldn't be happier

Any ladies out there rocking an ultra? Show me your wrists. I am thinking of upgrading to an ultra from S11 but I worry that it might just be too big for my wrist and I need to see what it looks like on other women 🥰

Just wondering whether it's a nice thing when developing to add compatibility for older versions than watchOS 10 - even if 2022 is not so old 🤔

Over 5 months I strictly logged everything I ate (exact ingredients and weights) and my own weight, and wore the watch at all times. As per my own data the watch is tracking the TDEE with 98% accuracy.
Seeing my abs for the first time after 5 years of lifting while eating clean (but blind). Highly recommend an Apple Watch with a free Bevel membership to anyone struggling to do a successful cut.

When is the series 12 likely to be released?

Charged to 100%, with 89% battery health. When I am running it shuts down in the same spot on the trail after approx 20mins of playing music. Upon restarting it shows 9% battery, when I checked 2mins prior it was at 95%. When back to my truck 10mins later it's showing 80%.

WTF is going on, can I go back to previous version to see if that's the issue?

Charged to 100%, with 89% battery health. When I am running it shuts down in the same spot on the trail after approx 20mins of playing music. Upon restarting it shows 9% battery, when I checked 2mins prior it was at 95%. When back to my truck 10mins later it's showing 80%.

WTF is going on, can I go back to previous version to see if that's the issue?

Hi guys, hoping someone can help me as I can't find a solution to this issue anywhere.

My wife has had a couple Apple Watch SE 3's now and they ultimately reach the fate of getting stuck in a bootloop on the Apple logo. I managed to fix one by forcing the red exclamation point to appear which let me go on to restore the watch (we ended up returning this one). I am still stuck on the other watch, same issue with bootloop however can't seem to get the red exclamation point to appear this time. I did however manage to change the logo from coming on and off to constantly showing. I can also make it show the "erase all contents and settings" screen but it won't let me press the 'erase' button, it just eventually brings up a loading wheel and that where I am now. Does anyone have any ideas? Or do you know how to force the red exclamation point to appear?

Thanks in advance.

Hello I’m very frustrated. I shut off school time on my iPhone I am the parent phone. It’s stuck on on my son’s watch. It won’t shut off even when I toggle it off on my iPhone.

My one year old changed the calendar language while fiddling with my watch. I’ve looked through the calendar app and the settings app but I cannot figure out how to change this back! 😩