The Problem with the Activity/Fitness AppĪctivity (called Fitness on the iPhone) may be the most well-known Apple Watch app. They’re primarily useful for giving you a rough idea of trends and making you more aware of how active or inactive you are. All the sleep-tracking apps I’ve tried can show wildly different results from the same measurements, and step-counting apps may show steps taken when you haven’t even gotten out of bed. Keep in mind that all fitness trackers present educated guesses based on subtle sensor data. I’ll share what has been working for me, and I hope it will give you some ideas about how to take better advantage of your Apple Watch’s fitness-tracking capabilities. However, the advantage of the Apple Watch over competing fitness trackers is you can use whatever apps you want to interpret the watch’s sensor data. I realized that the Apple Watch itself is a decent fitness tracker, but Apple’s fitness-tracking software is weak.I recently came down with COVID-19 and wanted to monitor my heart, sleep, and overall condition, both to stay on top of any side effects and to gauge when it would be safe to go back to the gym.I started getting serious about fitness because my health has steadily declined for a few years.I’ve worn an Apple Watch on and off since it debuted in 2015, but only recently have I embraced it for health tracking for three reasons: How I Finally Embraced the Apple Watch as a Fitness Tracker #1649: More LastPass breach details and 1Password switch, macOS screen saver problem, tvOS 16.3.3 fixes Siri Remote bug.#1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem.#1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.
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