Hi all, is there a way to get better tracking for Open Water swims on the Apple Watch? Cheers

Posted on Jul 31, 2022 9:53 AM

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Posted on Jul 31, 2022 10:03 AM

Open Water Swim: GPS will only provide distance when you do a freestyle stroke.

That is a quote from this page;

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Jul 31, 2022 10:21 AM in response to Community User

I think you’re right, that does like like what they mean.


Perhaps Apple should write ‘GPS will only provide distance when you do freestyle’, if they want to use it as a synonym for front crawl, as ‘a freestyle stroke’ is a little indistinct.


Or better still, just put front crawl!

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Jul 31, 2022 10:13 AM in response to JimboDigs

Yes freestyle is generally considered to be "front crawl",in Apple speak.

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