Apple Watch Ultra for Cross Country Skiing

How can you call it an apple watch ULTRA and not measure distance and my track in skiing? I get that there are some work arounds, but it seems like this is what the GPS should be used for.

Apple Watch Ultra

Posted on Feb 26, 2023 6:23 AM

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cross country skiing I am considering an apple watch ultra. I 've read that is not possible to use GPS to track route/distance on an Apple watch when selecting cross-country skiing. Will this be fixed in the Ultra? or in upcoming updates?
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Why isn't distance, gps map included in Cross Country skiing on Apple Watch It's interesting to note that questions why the Cross Country Skiing alternative on Apple Watch only measures time, calories and average heart rate are more than a year old. And NOTHING HAS HAPPENED! Obviously no-one responsible for the development of the Watch OS is interested in Cross Country Skiing, or knows what it is about. Distance, is really important to a cross country skier. Why isn't that measured in the app? Cross Country literally means that you quite often ski in unknown territory. The Apple Watch has a GPS function which works when you walk, run or ride a bike and it produces a map over your workout. Why isn’t that function implemented in the Apple Watch? A Cross Country Skiing function in the Apple Watch that only measures time, average heart rate, calories and shows you your starting position, is I’m afraid a joke and might as well be deleted in its present limited functionality.
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Missing gps tracking on Cross Country Skiing On the Apple watch the cross Country skiing workout is useless... Only harterate and calories..... We need GPS tracking also... like the Running outdoor. I have been waiting for this so many years now... Please update this or I will never buy an Apple watch again... There are so many people in the whole work who is using Cross Country skiing... so I really dont understand why you havent fixed this yet ?
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Feb 26, 2023 7:53 AM in response to jrulengineer

We didn't call it anything, because we are NOT Apple here on this user to user only forum. If you have a question about using your watch for cross country skiing, contact Apple for help.

Here are all the workout types Apple Watch supports --> Workout types on Apple Watch - Apple Support

If what you are looking for isn't represented, feel free to share your thoughts with Apple here --> Feedback - Watch - Apple

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Apple Watch Ultra for Cross Country Skiing

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