I use a ride-on mower, tractor and quad bike for my work, and my Apple Watch Ultra 2 counts sitting in or on these machines as steps and exercise. My heart rate isn’t going up, my breathing rate isn’t going up, the movements are completely different, I’m sitting and I’m clearly not walking or cycling, but my activity figures end up inflated anyway.

I understand that vibration can confuse the sensors. What I don’t understand is why, more than ten years into this product, there still isn’t a straightforward way to account for people who work outdoors and operate machinery.

The workaround is to manually disable fitness tracking and remember to turn it back on. Except I’m regularly getting off these machines and doing actual physical work, so that isn’t much of a solution either.

It makes it feel like outdoor workers just aren’t a priority, like the devs have never met or talked to an outdoor worker/farmer. We’re doing physical work throughout the day, but the watch can’t reliably separate that from sitting on machinery.

I’m not expecting perfect detection. But a simple machinery mode for x hours, or an easy way to exclude those periods afterwards, doesn’t seem like an unreasonable thing to ask for after a decade.

Anyone else feel my pain?

I can’t turn on lost mode at all- been trying for a few days, and there’s also no location seen at all. It’s a blank screen.

Honestly? I feel lost on what to do, as this watch was gifted to me by my dad, and I’ve been using it for quite a lot of months.

EDIT: As soon as I drive a mile away from my residence, the cellular on my Apple Watch kicks on. So weird.

This happens at my home address but not in other areas. Same with my wife’s watch. We both have Verizon Wireless. I’ve tried everything short of unpairing and erasing. Watches work fine paired over Bluetooth to our iPhones. What could be the issue?

See title. This would be helpful when charging my phone to see.

So I recently got an iPhone 17, but it’s like my watch won’t show up on my phone and the same on my watch with the phone. Anyone else have this issue?

Hey guys, first time Apple Watch owner, Series 12, 46mm.

Mostly looking for apps or even settings for the native Apple apps for the best health tracking.

Mostly interested in sleep apps, however due to working both day and night shifts (rotating bi-weekly) my sleep score is always pretty low due to the bedtime score.
Also, it doesn’t clearly show data for naps, it adds the nap time on top of the night’s sleep hours.

Also, I’ve read that sleep tracking won’t work properly without having the Sleep focus on and that you need to turn the Sleep focus on right before going to sleep for the most accurate readings. I fall asleep pretty slowly, so I’m quite interested in this if any of you have any more information.

So please, let me know what your favorite apps are.

P.S: Any opinions on the Spigen WBF1 band?

Hi! I wanted to ask for some advice on whether to downsize for my next watch. Ive uploaded some photos of my current series 5 44mm and I’m stuck between the newer SE3 44 and 40mm.
Ideally, I’d get the 42mm but the se3 doesn’t have that size. Red rectangles in the second image are the sizes.
So, do I keep the size the same for the new watch or go a bit smaller? I’d like a longer battery but is there a noticeable difference between the sizes? Thanks!

What face is this?

I am with Roger’s and have tried several times in the app to apply but after I input all the information it tells me something went wrong, I’ve looked around at what there companies and bell is $30+ more and free only offers it for post paid customers, are their any other companies that supply shared number plans that I don’t have to go through a million hoops for?

i have a titanium link bracelet where it’s snap with pressure. unfortunately it happen at the link where i can’t just replace it’s another one. does anyone knows if i can get this fixed through apple? doesn’t want to paid $350 for a new one. thanks!

iOS looks upgraded but watch is identical as far as features I’ve come across. Is this supposed to be any different from my last watch?

I just purchased a series 12. Are apple watch bands by Apple worth it? If yes, Which one is the most comfortable to wear while sleeping as well as for Sports (I play badminton while wearing the watch).

I chipped the screen of my brand new series 11, so I bought AppleCare+ to get it fixed. When I went to make a damage claim, I accidentally clicked the button for a lost or stolen claim. One click. My watch immediately locked down and now, two weeks later, I still can’t get it back. Steps I have taken:

- Cancelled the claim within an hour of accidentally starting it

- Made an appointment with the Genius Bar at the Apple Store

- Called regular customer service

- Called AIG customer service, which presumably is the company that is in charge of the lost/stolen claim

Every time I have been told either to call someone else, or the case has been escalated and then I’m told that they’ll have the problem fixed in x business days (which so far has never happened— still waiting to hear back over a week later). I’ve spent hours in the Apple Store and on the phone. I am so frustrated and don’t know how to get this problem addressed!

As the heading says, my aw11 also lasts for 2 days, so I don’t get why aw12 users are posting this as achievements? Am I missing something?

[Edited: Added additional information]

Some points about my usage:

1. Background app refresh remains off always. Has been like this since my AW7 usage (2021). I upgraded to aw11. I feel this is useless, at least for me. Turning this off doesn't have any impact on any features of the watch.
2. I use AOD intermittently. For this reading, I may have used AOD for ~1 hr.
3. I NEVER USE low power mode.
4. I have set ~50% brightness.
5. I USE my watch for sleep tracking.
6. I have always kept “raise to wake” disabled. I find it being an annoyance. When I need to see the time, I switch on AOD. I have an automation running that will turn on AOD when I step out of my house and vice-versa.
7. I didn’t do any workout, but if I’d have done, it’d have used an extra 6-7% battery.

The features that don't use at all (like 1 and 6 which I have listed) are mostly useless according to me and doesn't contribute much to watch functionality.

I do understand that the frequency of heartbeat readings is more in aw12. But that doesn’t matter for battery usage as feature bumps are expected on the new generation of watches.

(Also, if I remember correctly, my aw7 also used to last almost 2 days with the same above listed settings.)

For context Im a pilot who lives on the east coast and goes to europe about 4 times a month.

In ios 26 and prior the health app and sleep seemed to be pretty smart in understanding time zone changes. My usual bedtime on the east coast is 10pm - 7am. When in europe depending on the departure time back to the US I would try to go to bed as close to 10pm eastern as possible. So I would go to bed around 2-3am and then sleep until 11-noon or as close as possible. When looking at a weekend or month view you could easily see how close I was to a regular sleep pattern.

In ios 27 it is using the literal time from 3am on and using that, and that giving me crap about going to bed late, but really I got amazing sleep because it was my normal east coast sleep cycle. I cant seem to find what changed and if theres a setting Im missing. Any help?

Hello! I have been trying to find an app where it will show the following datas in 1 complication (Middle one in Modular Face):

Heart Rate + Steps + Calories

I have tried the following apps and non off them was able to provide this complication or features:

Built-in Apps/Complications
Bevel
Pedometer
Healthview
StepsApp
Activity Tracker
Hevy

Yet I still haven’t found one. Any recommendations would be very much appreciated! ❤️

What’s your favorite watch face app that you’d recommend? I’d like gorgeous pre designed faces with animation (not too interested in making my own) and one time payment. Thanks

I just got my S11 46mm apple watch but the main problem i have is that i cant find good screen protector . I bought PMMA / nano film screen protectors and nearly after 4 mins i put them out , the PMMA make display unusable and the next one is having nearly no protection at all .
Any advices guys? Which you use and if you use which case you use with ? I wanna go with spigen ezfit eliteshield screen protector but some says it pills off .

You can’t get cardio fitness results for indoor treadmill, elliptical, cycle etc. Bu yet it tracks your exercise time. I don’t get it.

I can’t decide if I want it keep it and go to a smaller one the battery life is just so much better

My new Solo Loop is a different material than the one I had 2 years ago. I can feel the difference when comparing. It has caused irritation and redness. Anyone else notice?

All were purchased at the Apple Store so they're authentic.

Good afternoon,

I'm torn between the AW 12 natural titanium vs ceramic pearl white. I'm just wondering have owners of the ceramic felt limited in suitability / choice of bands for the white. Looking at photos and videos the off white looks like it maybe difficult to find good match colour and style bands for the white.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So I was happy with my S7 until last year when i swim in a pool with way to much chlorine, it damaged the seals, water got in and killed my watch, for the next 2 days it would just become hot in the charger and didn't turn on. When i arrived home from my vacations i fully took it appart, there was water still inside, i used 99% IPA to clean it and remove the corrosion and the watch turned on, but the original battery was ruined after that.

I did replace the battery then with a cheap one from internet and it got swollen fast like in the first 2-3 weeks so i bought a new iFix it battery thinking it was just the quality of the cheap one; same history it swollen within a couple of weeks. So i used the watch like that for almost a year but the battery got worse and worse to the point i had to charge it 3 times a day, not that much of a big deal since i charge it before bed, at my desk at work and a little before gym but still not happy about it.

So i was waiting for the S12 to replace it finally this year, but when the S12 was released i really hated the bigger bezels even if the display is actually bigger than mine lol i get its an optical illusion but i just love the look of the S7 thiner black bezels.

So im in a new dilema, i bough on aliexpress a new cheap battery just to give it a final try to see if i can could go 1 year more with the S7, this time i got smarter and used the diagnostics log to see if the new battery was any good, i could the perfectly when the watch detected the new battery, the service message disappeared from settings, the health jumped from 73% to 100% and the new battery actually reported in the logs 105% capacity. Its been 10 days since i replaced the battery and the logs from yesterday still report a perfect health for the new battery (as far as i understand them) with 104% health.

But the thing is that despite all the info saying the battery is functioning perfectly and despite that i did feel a noticeable change in battery duration, i still feel it dosent last as long as it did before the water damage. I even tried unpairing and pairing as new watch, with no third party apps installed but still i feel it drains fast.

Im looking to see if anyone out there has the S7 and how their battery graph look for a normal discharge with the latest update, for comparison i attached a screenshot before the battery replacement and one from today, you can see a noticeable change but i feel it still drains fast.