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Incorrect Stand Hours showing on my Watch & in Health

Since the latest update, my Apple Watch is not correctly recording my stand hours....I have been on my feet almost continuously for 8 hours and the watch is crediting me for 5. It shows me idle when I wasn’t.


On the plus side, the update corrected the issue i was having with my battery needing to be recharged hours before it used to need to be recharged (and none of the fixes helped).

Posted on Jun 9, 2021 9:01 AM

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Posted on Jun 9, 2021 10:50 AM

FWIW, it is not only important to stand but to also move (for a continuous minute or so) to get credit toward your stand goal for that hour.


The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Jun 9, 2021 10:50 AM in response to thameslink

FWIW, it is not only important to stand but to also move (for a continuous minute or so) to get credit toward your stand goal for that hour.


The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


Incorrect Stand Hours showing on my Watch & in Health

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