I'm confused with my Apple Watch 8.
My tracked fastest 5km run has been 24:19 for quite a while, then to my suprise recently I beat the time, with a rapid 28:05, congratulations me! Nearly 4 minutes slower and a new record!
Anyone any idea why this has happened? I want my original fastest back. I've not deleted any data, so who knows!
Thanks
Apple Watch Series 8, watchOS 9
The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:
How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Restart your iPhone - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.
Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support
The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:
How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Restart your iPhone - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.
Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support
As of June 2024 this issues still hasn’t been fixed? I know it’s only a stupid badge that only I can see but dang it, I worked hard to shave off all those minutes on my 5k time. 🥵
It did this to me today too! And it’s not the first time. It told me I ran my fastest 10k a few weeks ago which was definitely not the case. It was same- about a 3-4 minute difference in both of them. I want my fastest’s back too!
I’m updating my Watch, but I don’t expect that to bring it back. It appears as if maybe with updating to the 8 it gets rid of your previous watch awards.
I took this up with Apple and got referred to a lovely guy called Wesley at Apple HQ in America. Apparently they have no fix, and don’t know why it’s happened.
Reminded me to chase up actually.
sorry the news isn’t positive.
Hi Javaliga,
These aren't the solution, as within the activity app on my iPhone it now shows my fastest 5km as 31:35! The issue is the data in activities, not the pairing.
I've unpaired and reset my apple watch, the data is still the same.
Any further ideas?
Thanks
Why has my fastest 5km run gone to a slower time?!
