Hello,
When you use the Apple Watch app and another cardio system, the Apple Watch NEVER stop if you use the cardio belt.
Ride with a belt. When ride with the apple watch.
Then ride again with the belt. The apple watch will start anyway. Finish you’re ride with the belt. The Apple watch continue to capture cardio.
Restart everything. Nothing works.
The only way is to start another ride with the Apple Watch and quit without saving. Then the app finally stop.
Best regards
I am having this problem as well. After I used the Apple Watch Companion app to capture heart rate on one ride, on the next ride, it did not work, so I switched back to my Garmin HRM. Yet my Apple Watch is now stuck capturing my heart rate, and draining the battery constantly, even after I un-installed the app. I tried restarting my Apple Watch, nothing helped. I could not get it to stop draining the battery with the green LED on the back constantly on.
However, after two more watch restarts, the battery drain has finally gone away.
The Apple Watch companion app is a good idea, if only it had worked marginally better.
Karl,
One solution is to restart a zwift session with the apple watch and stop the session properly.
I have the feeling that the apple watch’s app won’t stop until it received an order to stop from zwift.
Thanks - I will keep that advice in mind if I decide to give it another try. As long as I work up a little sweat, there are rarely any problems with the Garmin HRM, but it takes a while before it starts working. That’s why I wanted to check out how the Apple Watch might do the job instead.
If you put some water on the pads before putting it on it will help to have it working quicker.
absolute annoying, I do have the same problem. and ich cannot make the companion app to stop on the Apple Watch. only solution is to delete it and install it again. I stopped a session on the iPad, I closed the companion app on iPhone and iPad, but it stays count heart rate on the watch. how can this be after so many years?
There is no progress because they mostly gave up on the Apple Watch app. Last I heard they are a little bit interested in developing it but haven’t put resources on the project. Some people use the Heartcast app on the watch, but the simplest solution is to get a HRM.
Thank you for your answer. I thought of this, but it could be so convenient with a working watch app… do all the HRM easily working, I do have an old polar belt?
I use a iPad on the Zwift bike and the companion app on the iPhone, additionally the heart rate on the Apple Watch (ultra 1). when ending a workout the companion app does not stop counting heart until the battery is empty. I close the workout probably on the iPad.
when I fully close the apps on iPad and iPhone, there is no change on Apple Watch, the companion app stays live.
until now the only possibility is to de-install the app on watch and install again. restarting the watch does not stop this problem.
Not sure I had this issue when attempting to use the apple watch for HR, but Zwift has said that apple watch is not technically supported as an HR monitor at the moment. Multiple seasons ago they had apple watch support in their plans, but somehow that fell off the list unfortunately so most folks have to use a third party app such as heartcast to brodcast HR to Zwift reliably from the apple watch.
But it sounds like it was working for you which is interesting, did this behavior start with a more recent release, or was it always keeping your app open?
yes, the heart rate measuring ist working with the companion app on the watch. I used it for 4-5 weeks now, and never stopped after riding.
To use the Apple Watch as an HRM, use the app HeartCast. Works well.