The Apple Watch is a device very focused on people’s health, and an essential section for health is training, sport, for this the Apple Watch helps you record each of the workouts you do, however, one Once you get used to using it, it becomes almost essential, so if your Apple Watch has stopped monitoring your workouts or is not doing well at all, here we explain what you have to do to solve it.
First, check that the configuration is correct
The first thing you have to do is make sure that everything is in place, that is, that the configuration you currently have is adequate so that the Apple Watch can receive the information it needs to perform the calibration. For this we recommend that you follow the following steps.
- On your iPhone, open the Settings app.
- Go to Privacy and click on Location.
- Verify that you have the Location activated, if not, activate it.
- Scroll down and click System Services.
- Verify that the Calibration on Scroll option is enabled, if not, enable it.
Once you have verified that the previous configuration is correct, it is time to calibrate the Apple Watch so that it re-records each and every one of your workouts and, in this way, you can have all that information about your daily activity again.
Apple Watch Calibration
To calibrate the Apple Watch you will have to go out to “play sports” outside the home, so check before leaving that you have enough time and that the weather conditions cannot prevent you from taking the following steps.
- While wearing Apple Watch, go to an area that is outdoors, has a flat, open surface, and has good GPS reception. As we mentioned before, it is also necessary that the sky is clear.
- In case your Apple Watch is a Series 2 or a later model, you only need the Apple Watch, now, if you have an Apple Watch Series 1 or earlier, you need to take the iPhone with you to use the GPS, if this is your case , hold the iPhone in your hand or wear it in a bracelet.
- On your Apple Watch, open the Workout app and start an Outdoor Walk or Outdoor Run activity.
- Then walk or run at your normal pace for about 20 minutes.
In case you cannot complete the 20 minutes, you can do the 20-minute training session in several sessions, in addition, if you usually train at different speeds, we recommend that you calibrate this activity for 20 minutes at each of the speeds at which walk or run.
Whenever you do an outdoor running or walking workout and follow the steps above, Apple Watch will be calibrating the accelerometer by remembering the length of your steps at different speeds. Additionally, calibration also improves the accuracy of calorie calculation in the Training app and the estimated number of calories, distance, movement, and exercise in the Activity app.
Finally, in case you want to reset the calibration data, you just have to go to the Apple Watch application on your iPhone, click on the My watch tab, go to Privacy and click on Reset condition data.
Do you want to improve the accuracy of the Training and Activity apps?
The Apple Watch is a very complete device to have a more or less exact control of our daily activity, but for this, you also have to count on our help, so if you want to improve the precision of both the Training application and the the Activity application, we recommend that you provide all your information about your height, weight, gender and age so that the Apple Watch can make an estimate much closer to reality.
If none of this worked, restore your Apple Watch
As sometimes happens with other Apple devices such as the iPhone, many problems are solved by performing a restoration of the device, and, of course, the Apple Watch was not going to be an exception. If you have come this far and none of the steps mentioned above has helped your Apple Watch to record your activity correctly, perhaps it is time to restore it, for this you just have to follow the following steps:
- On your Apple Watch, open the Settings application> General> Reset> Delete content and settings.
- If it asks for the password, enter it correctly.
- On GPS + Cellular models, choose whether you want to keep or delete your mobile data plan. If you are re-linking your Apple Watch to your iPhone, keep the plan, if not, remove the plan.
- – Press Delete all to confirm, this will restore the factory settings of the Apple Watch.
Contact Apple Support
As always, as a last option we recommend that, in case you have not been able to solve your problem with any of the previous proposals, you contact Apple’s technical service through the Apple Support App or by phone number or website. Apple’s technical service is one of the company’s greatest values, since the attention that most customers receive is usually exceptional and, on rare occasions, the professionals in charge of solving user problems do not find the key to solve any problem.