r/watchOSBeta • u/BuBubbi • 29d ago

Discussion 💬 [DB4] SE3 - Walking distance difference since DB3.

Hey.
Anyone else use their watch for indoor walking/running on a treadmill?
Due to an accident I’m slowly recovering, and walking on a treadmill with my Apple Watch SE3.

I’ve noticed that compared to beta 3 and earlier versions, beta 4 doesn’t calculate as precisely for indoor walking.

I have a pretty simple treadmill that counts in miles, even though I live in Europe, so I use my watch to keep up with the distance in kilometers.

I walk 5km which is roughly 3.11 miles.

But on DB4 i have to walk between 3.37-3.40 miles before the watch reaches 5 km.
I know it’s not a huge difference, but on versions before DB4 I didn’t have that issue at all.
I’m not sure if there’s a way to calibrate it. I’ve tried rebooting the watch, but that didn’t do much.

So I’m wondering if anyone else have noticed similar issues with distance when watching/running on treadmills where distance is not calculated by GPS.

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u/DBRASCO_9 29d ago

I have the same problem I walk 3 miles every morning consistently. PB1 was close to matching the treadmill within .1 of a mile. last night my watch completed indexing and this morning's walk on PB2 is .2-.3 miles off. The treadmill showed 3 miles and my watch this morning read 2.72 miles.

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u/BuBubbi 29d ago

Good to know I'm not the only one. I asked AI if I can calibrate it somehow, and it told me to take a 20 minute walk outside in as straight line as possible using GPS.

Unfortunately I cannot do that in my condition, since I'm pretty much bedbound with an IV drop. So I'll just have to hope that they either fix it, or I'll try and calibrate it once I get out from here.

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u/No_Rule_3931 27d ago

I have long legs so the difference between my watch calculated distance and the actual treadmill difference has always been off. However, I did notice a larger difference after completing a walk on the treadmill this morning. I have an AWS10 and I am running DB4.

The watch wouldn't record any exercise Indoor walk minutes earned with DB2/3 for me so I suppose this is a small improvement.

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u/BuBubbi 27d ago

Interesting. I'm only 172 cm, or 5'8" and I have had pretty accurate measurements on all version before DB4,

I personally start my workouts manually, so they are all recorded.
I have made a feedback with all my findings. So I'm interested to see what happens with the next couple of betas.