Heart rate detection on dives with depth app

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Heart rate detection on dives with depth app

I’ve been using my Apple watch ultra the past week during dives to try out the depth app but mainly to track my heart rate for daily activity and exertion levels. I am a professional diver and spend about 3-4 hours a day under water (shallow dives), and was hoping to use the Ultra for tracking all of the health metrics and not necessarily as a backup dive computer.

I’ve noticed that the watch doesn’t do a single heart rate measurement when the depth app is open or I’m diving. Is there a reason for this? Or am I going to have to try to record each dive as a workout to force the readings. Not sure if this is an oversight with the app or a particular feature that’s been purposely omitted.

Thanks!

Apple Watch Ultra

Posted on Oct 1, 2022 05:00 PM

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brpaterson Author

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Oct 3, 2022 11:41 AM in response to ArmMan1016

Thank you, but even in the health app after the dive there is a 3 hour gap with no heart rate data. So this is normal? That seems a bit odd.

Yesterday I tan the workout app instead of the depth app and it measured HR perfectly underwater for the 3 hours. But you can’t view depth information in the workout mode.

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ArmMan1016

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Oct 3, 2022 11:26 AM in response to brpaterson

Greetings brpaterson,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. Per the Apple Support article: "When you dismiss that summary in the Depth app, you'll be able to see the data for water temperature and depth in a timeline within the Health app, but not the other metrics." So what you are experiencing with using that app is expected. You can get complete details here: Use the Depth app on Apple Watch Ultra - Apple Support

Apple is all about improving the experience for their customers. If you've got a functionality request you'd like to see, let the engineers and developers know here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Feel free to reach back out if you have any questions.

Have a great day!

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lllaass

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Oct 3, 2022 12:45 PM in response to brpaterson

When you open the depth app can you see the green HR lights the come from the back of the watch? You may have to lift the watch slightly from your wrist. If they do not light then it seems the Dive app disables the HR function.

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brpaterson Author

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Oct 4, 2022 01:39 AM in response to lllaass

Looks like it’s disabled then. That’s unfortunate. Running an “other” workout works fine.

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Heart rate detection on dives with depth app

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