When the Apple Watch used the version 1.0 of Watch OS it kept the pulse of the users every 10 minutes. Since the release of Watch OS 1.0.1, users have found that data is no longer saved on a regular basis, sometimes going to be without registering a measurement for almost an hour, which from the beginning has been thought to be a bug in the latest version of the Apple Watch operating system.
According to updated page about measuring our pulse, "The Apple Watch will try to measure your heart rate every 10 minutes, but it will not record it when you are moving or moving your arm”. The original version of Watch OS did not take into account any type of movement and the fact of not saving the heart rate as it did before has caused complaints from many users. The general feeling is that the device has lost a function in the update.
It is not known why Apple introduced this change in behavior in its smartwatch, a change that seems like an involution rather than an evolution of the system that controls our pulse. There are people who think that this change has been made to reduce battery consumption, but this statement has not been to anyone's liking, since no one noticed excessive consumption when it was measured regularly every 10 minutes.
The solution that the community has found to the problem is to start a training to force the measurement of the heart rate, which will save our pulse every 10 seconds. The main problem is that users will have to remember to manually activate this mode when, if the normal system worked as before, we would not have to do anything for it. On the other hand, the consumption that they were supposed to have tried to reduce would be more affected by measuring our heart rate every 10 seconds than every 10 minutes, logically.
From my point of view, Apple should add an option to Watch OS so that users can decide if the keystrokes are saved every X minutes or not, as well as indicate how often it should measure them. It would give us a bit of work, but you can always have it as it was in Watch OS 1.0 by default and, if we saw that the battery consumes faster than we would like, we could edit it at will.
That's why I like my Fitbit HR
Let's see if I understand, if you move your arm it does not measure you because it is imprecise, but if you run it makes you a continuous measurement ...? Only Apple is able to make its followers believe its explanations
Good afternoon, Rober. It is not exactly like that. Everything according to what Apple says and as I understand it, the Apple Watch will measure your pulse every 10m if you are at rest. They do not mean that it cannot measure if it is in motion, but that it will not measure it automatically as before. As I explain in the article, this does not seem right to me and I suppose they will correct it in future versions.