r/AppleWatch

I (35M) have gone through a very stressful time in my career in 2023. One day I received a warning from my Apple watch that my cardio fitness was low. That was on the way to Oktoberfest, which surely did not help either 😅The week after, I started to look into my fitness more and started to go on walks whenever I could.
Found running and signed up for a half marathon with 9 months to prepare, and it became a nice journey of getting fitter. Started to eat healthier, look after myself, drink less and ran 3-4 times a week.
Before the half, my dad got very sick and sadly passed. That summer, while taking care of him, I started a more structured running routine. It helped me take my mind off for just a bit while running.

After the half I signed up for a full marathon in 2025 and have been running about 5 times a week ever since apart from vacations or down weeks!
Usually with a long run, 2x easy runs, an interval session and a tempo run.

Also have been looking out for my sleep like it’s my job. Sleeping / recovery is so important.

In the past i would count somewhere around 6h as enough, but nowadays i try to get at least 7h every day.

I’m quite sure one of the reasons my vo2max was quite low in the health app back in 2023 was that I had put down my medication (beta blockers). With the approval of my doc, I halved my dosage back in 2024 and have since taken it out of the app as it’s the lowest dosage one can take (1.25mg). That alone probably increased my score by 5+ points - so my actual baseline might have been a bit higher than 23.

Now training for a sub 1:39 half marathon in November and just saw this week that my score got over 60. The intervals on track have been paying off!

Truly, that score has been a great motivation to keep active and push myself!

Has anyone ran into an issue where the side button is pressing itself and it keeps triggering SOS. It’s basically stuck and randomly started happening. Series 11 watch

Screenshot on the left was taken today at
11: 21. The screenshot on the right was also taken today at 13:52. Every other number increased except the move ring with the calorie count which decreased this is not the first time this has happened. Has anyone else experienced this or can provide an explanation?

It’s been doing this for four hours (since I updated). I thought at first that it was just syncing messages, so I left it on the charger, but there has been no change in status.

I’ve always been the type of person who uses my electronics until they’ve given their very last drop. When I got my first Apple Watch in 2016 (Series 0 42mm Gold finished Aluminum), just a few months after it launched in the Philippines, I was amazed by how much it could do. For the first time, a watch didn’t just tell time, it tracked my heart rate and steps, reminded me to stand, breathe, and simply take better care of myself.

I wore it every day for nearly 10 years. Even when newer generations came out and Apple eventually stopped sending software updates to it, I kept wearing it. It could still tell time and date, and honestly, that was enough. It even made it through the pandemic with me.

This year, after almost a decade, I finally decided it deserved a proper send-off. And somehow, I was blessed with a Series 11. Faster, more capable, and with much better battery life. Some might say I could’ve gotten this or that, but coming from the very first Apple Watch, this feels like one hell of an upgrade. 🥹⌚️

Activity Rings are greyed out on my apple watch main screen. Clicking on the rings on the watch, opens the main app and Rings are active and colored. Rings are also colored and active if I go to the fitness app on my Iphone.
Come tomorrow morning, if open fitness app on my watch or iphone, it will show that rings were paused.
Furthermore, currently in my health app it shows that my rings are paused (today, yesterday, since monday - that's when the problem started)

Went to apple watch, they were clueless and have not fixed the issue, things they did:
restarted my watch/iphone
unpaired and reset my watch
Reinstalled the watch OS
Still nothing.

After 3 hours, I convinced them to rest my watch and pair to a brand new iphone (different apple ID to mine), after that rings worked just fine.

So I guess the issue is coming from my health app. Has anyone seen this?

was really shocked to see this score in the morning

I was today years old when I realized that the back of the Apple Watch is ALSO magnetic and my life has changed drastically since then.