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?

Posted on May 13, 2023 6:02 AM

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LD150

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May 13, 2023 12:34 PM in response to marcoen178

You are correct but nobody here will know what Apple has in mind.

It would be an OS change rather than Ultra specific.

You can always use "Hike", not that I have tried it but some of your fellow skiers may have tried it.

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