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My Apple Watch has recently stopped registering stand goals randomly - even when I am working out the watch will say I missed an hour. Sometimes it registers the next hour (ie at 4pm it completes the 5pm stand goal and then 4pm is not met). How can I fix this?
Apple Watch Series 2, watchOS 6
To complete your stand goal, you'll have to stand up at least once every hour for a couple of minutes.
If you want to complete the goal for 4pm, you'll have to at least be moving or standing up in the time between 3:50 and 4:00, if you haven't done that before. After 04:00, the watch will try to complete the 5 hour goal.
At least, that's what I found out on my watch.
And you'll only get one credit for each hour.
Make sure that you have backed up your iPhone as well. An encrypted backup in iTunes will also contain the health data.
It’s not as clear as I would like, but you can see it’s between 7-8pm but the 8-9pm stand has been achieved while the 7-8pm stand is flashing. It will now not be acknowledged no matter what I do (workout, pacing, several minutes of movement)
Yes - I have restarted my watch and iPhone several times. I’ve also turned off fitness tracking, turned both off, restarted and turned both on. It’s a complete mystery why this is happening - especially even when an active workout has occurred within an hour period and it still fails to recognise a stand hour
Did you already try to force restart the watch?
Thanks for the reply. I’ve had no issue with meeting the stand goal (usually 15+ hours achieved each day) and then recently it has stopped working. This is a sudden, unexplained change.
Did you check the Health App, when the watch stopped counting the stand goal?
Yes - I have rearranged the data sources and am monitoring. However the issue persists at this stage. It really makes no sense!
Does the Activity App on the phone show the same gaps?
Restoring the watch could be an option, after making sure that your phone made an encrypted backup in iTunes.
Yes - the activity app shows the same gaps. I will definitely look at the restore option.
I don’t want to lose my activity history if possible!
Apple Watch Stand Recognition
