u/xxSeahawks

Hi guys, me and my girlfriend broke up after 8 years together. We both have an icloud family account where I'm the organizer. The question is what do I have to do to remove her but we both keep all the data. Like for example we used the shared libary in the photos app. (nearly all of our pictures are in there)

Did anyone the same? I don't want to lose any data.

Thanks

My photo library is about 600 GB. I have a lot of Fuji photos, which take up around 20–25 MB each, so my entire library doesn't fit on my 512 GB iPhone.

I've turned on Optimize iPhone Storage, but now almost all of the full resolution photos have been removed from my iPhone, and only the low resolution versions are stored locally. They only take up around 6 GB in total.

Is there really no option to tell the iPhone to keep, for example, the photos from the last year in full resolution?

I still have more than 300 GB of free storage on my iPhone, and I love looking back at older photos, so it feels like a waste not to use that available storage. (it sucks to wait like 10 sec to view the full resolution version)

In their promo videos they always show guys in the gym working out but in real life all the features they offer are half baked.

You can't move exercises, it doesn't show recent weights etc.

Also a huge miss is that doing strength workouts will absolutely don't do anything for training load. Why can't garmin account for muscular load like whoop? For a 1 hour strength session i get like 5-15 training load.

If you don't do cardio your training status will be always recovery or something like that.

So yesterday I did a 1h strength session with avg 85 bpm. Nothing crazy more isolate stuff but my strain was 66%.

Today I did a 13k run (1:06h) with 2x2 km tempo blocks and an avg 142 bpm with 14 min in zone 4-5 but my strain is just a 56%?

I then was up all day with about 25k steps but my strain didn’t move.

Does this makes any sense?

Currently testing both apps. Fenix 8 + chest strap.

1. For some reason, I had trouble with Bevel today. First, it took a long time to sync, and the AI didn’t work. After a while, it worked. It then didn’t sync the running workout. GC wrote everything fine to Apple Health and Strava, but Bevel didn’t work even though I started syncing again in the settings. Had to delete the workout in AH and use RunGap to finally sync it to Bevel.

2. My other question: Recovery on Bevel 85% while on Whoop 82%. So pretty close. With my 13 km run (142 avg + 178 bpm max with 14 min in Z4-5), I did reach my strain target on Whoop of around 14, while on Bevel I got a strain score of 51%, but my target is 69%-105%. Isn’t that like nearly all out? I‘m still a bit confused as the 21 strain system of Whoop looks more logical to me.

With an 85% recovery, I have to run like 2h or more to reach the strain target of Bevel?

I have a fenix 8 47 mm and I'm curious how much battery it will burn if I turn on puls ox while sleeping? Anyone tested that?

After 3 weeks I'm not sure if I keep the cirqa. It's alright but I often wear my fenix during the week so often I only wear the cirqa on weekend or for 2-3 hours after work.

My issue is, that I miss the whoop app.. They really nailed it with their streak, achievements and the overall actionable insights. I can upload my blood results, I can better look at trends, they are good at detecting muscular strain (I go to the gym 3-4x per week in the morning and do running / biking after work)

Also the social feature to compare Sleep/Recovery/strain with your friends is huge plus

The whoop band looks nicer (the cirqa is alright on my wrist I just don't understand why it has to be that big?)

Bevel is nice and helps a bit but still unsure about their algo. For example for their "sleep score" they factor in deep and rem sleep which garmin is not good in to detect that.

So after 3 weeks I'm leaning torwards of staying with whoop especially i'm still subscribed till april 2027 and they fixed their HR accuracy issues I had.

I'm asking because i can't find any information. On gopro you can change it without any tools so that would be cool on the x6

X5 had a total run time of 208 min and charged to 80% in 20 min.

X6 total run time 140 min and 0-80% in 24 min?

Why worse than before?

Curious - do you find Garmin’s training readiness or Whoops recovery score to be more in line with how you feel?

Are you guys switching back to whoop or staying with cirqa and garmin?

I have about 600 recoveries from whoop so it’s a bit hard to finally let it go completely. I mean it still does a lot of stuff better than garmin so I’m curious if someone went back to wearing a garmin watch + whoop

On the wrist I think the cirqa is more comfortable but I still don't understand why the pod is larger than a whoop?

You get 10 days battery with lower intensity HR readings (outside of workouts) + without Spo2 readings (you can turn it on but battery life will be even less) while whoop is achieving 14 days with always high frequency HR readings + spo2

Just curious what could be the reasons. Garmin also doesn't have more features than whoop beside the button (no gps, no altimeter etc)

Got the cirqa 1 week ago and while it looks like an obvious choice with my fenix 8 I got second guesses.

My problem with garmin is, that they completely ignore strength training. Because your Hr is not high it’s basically everything a recovery workout. Because of this your training readiness is also higher because of low load. Training status is then also not useful. I don’t plan my training around whoops recovery score but I can see on a quick glance how my body recovered today where it’s a bit harder to see on garmin especially just doing strength.

This sucks as I go to the gym 3-4 times per week.

Also I like whoops strain metric. Gives me a better sense how hard I pushed today (especially when doing strength + running/biking in a single day) + it’s motivates me to do more.

Next are the quick widgets on the dashboard. I love to see how much times I spent in Zone 1-3 and Z4-5. if it’s measuring correctly (I’m struggling with zone 4-5) that’s cool.

I think healthspan is also a cool feature although I’m about 9-10 years younger year round but it reminds me to sleep more and get my steps in.

My only grip with whoop is the HR accuracy issues and the price. I have the MG one and when they launched I thought they will add so many cool features but literally nothing. lol

Maybe it’s also hard to switch completely to a different device after nearly 3 years of wearing it (most of the time)

As I bought the cirqa in a store I can’t return it so I have to sell it if I stay with whoop. I still have a membership till April 1 so that maybe better.

What I don’t like on the cirqa -> I wear my fenix 8 less which means I miss the evening report and already had a few situations where I quickly needed the flashlight but was only wearing the cirqa lol

New to the app after I got the cirqa alongside my Fenix 8. Had whoop before so I have to get used to the app.

Got a 36% recovery score today which seemed a bit low but my HRV was a bit below my avg so that may be the reason (altough I'm certainly sure whoop would have put me in the 45-55% range)

I wore the whoop just for fun during my strength workout (alongside my fenix 8) and got around 11 strain so fairly high while Bevel got me a 34% score. Is there a feature where it calculates muscular strain like whoop?

On whoop I liked to see how much time i spent in Zone 1-3 and 4-5 each week. Is there an overview in bevel? Can't find it.

What else is good to know when start using bevel?