A few months ago an S3 with WOS 8 started doing absurd readings on Activity, Movement ring, reading 1,000,000 calories per day consumed.
With Apple we tried everything, nothing worked, I took it to service at the Apple Store and they encountered hardware issues. Okay, I thought, it was an old device, it can happen.
This morning, S4 (it is a 2019 one replaced by Apple in warranty) updated to WOS 9 a week ago, same problem: absurd readings. I contact Apple and spend the day doing the tests indicated, in the evening I turn it off.
I take my S2 (purchased new from Apple Reseller in October 2021 and replaced by Apple, then new batteries, rarely worn) connected with an iPhone SE with iOS 15 (iOS 16 is not compatible with WOS 8 and earlier), and I use them, and I also find on one of the two all the high parameters inherited from the Fitness account on iCloud.
After the battery of the S2 Edition I take the S2 SS, which in the meantime had been unpaired by an Apple Genius this morning. I paired it with iPhone SE before midnight.
I wear it after midnight.
In 5 minutes this also begins to score absurd parameters on movement while I am lying down.
So the problem is not the Watch S2, S3, S4, it is those incompetent Apple who have messed up iCloud and the management of Fitness parameters that are loaded on the watches from iCloud servers, even at devices (including iPhones) stationary, motionless.
Or perhaps it is the most blatant case of programmed obsolescence ever seen: motionless devices or turned off that read non-existent movements.
I will try to contact the Geniuses but I'm sure they will find excuses, but they won't be able to explain how off devices can take readings with unpowered sensors.
The next step will be to file a scam lawsuit.
With Apple we tried everything, nothing worked, I took it to service at the Apple Store and they encountered hardware issues. Okay, I thought, it was an old device, it can happen.
This morning, S4 (it is a 2019 one replaced by Apple in warranty) updated to WOS 9 a week ago, same problem: absurd readings. I contact Apple and spend the day doing the tests indicated, in the evening I turn it off.
I take my S2 (purchased new from Apple Reseller in October 2021 and replaced by Apple, then new batteries, rarely worn) connected with an iPhone SE with iOS 15 (iOS 16 is not compatible with WOS 8 and earlier), and I use them, and I also find on one of the two all the high parameters inherited from the Fitness account on iCloud.
After the battery of the S2 Edition I take the S2 SS, which in the meantime had been unpaired by an Apple Genius this morning. I paired it with iPhone SE before midnight.
I wear it after midnight.
In 5 minutes this also begins to score absurd parameters on movement while I am lying down.
So the problem is not the Watch S2, S3, S4, it is those incompetent Apple who have messed up iCloud and the management of Fitness parameters that are loaded on the watches from iCloud servers, even at devices (including iPhones) stationary, motionless.
Or perhaps it is the most blatant case of programmed obsolescence ever seen: motionless devices or turned off that read non-existent movements.
I will try to contact the Geniuses but I'm sure they will find excuses, but they won't be able to explain how off devices can take readings with unpowered sensors.
The next step will be to file a scam lawsuit.
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