I got my Galaxy Watch7 a few weeks ago and I've been swimming in a 10m long pool for the past few days with it. I've set my pool length to be 10m on my watch, but even with this I've found the length tracking to be horribly inaccurate. If I do 10 lengths (100m), the watch only records somewhere between 5-7 lengths, depending on how I do my U-turn.
Does anyone else have this problem? I've seen on Reddit that other people find previous Galaxy Watches much more accurate with length tracking. Is there a specific way I should do my U-turn so it better registers each length? Maybe the inaccuracy is also due to the shorter length of the pool I swim in.
I'm a frequent competitive swimmer, and use my watch 4 classic every workout. I swim in a 25 m pool, which alongside 50m is the standard for swimming competitions. The accuracy of the tracking is pretty bad, especially when you are not doing crawl or breaststroke. What I find overwhelmed the watch the most is kick with a board, because despite supporting it, the watch fails to detect about 90% of the distance made with the board, and after that it's tracking just falls apart. Overall it's pretty inaccurate capturing like 60-70% of the laps correctly. If you want a watch for swimming, just get an Apple watch. I have the Se model, and it is significantly more accurate than the Samsung one, and the software experience itself is better also.
Good to know it isn't only me with the inaccurate tracking... Can't really get an apple watch as I don't have an iPhone though. I hope accuracy improves with an update, but since you are on a 4 classic I'm starting to doubt that. Oh well
I too hoped it would improve but it was as bad on the 4 classic as it was on the watch 3. I think it's a good thing my watch ultra got delayed, made me rethink how little they actually improved the software and tracking, better battery capacity is not worth 600$. As for the Apple watch, I think you can use like a friend's or family members iPhone to set it up, it won't be linked to their account and be like semi stand-alone
I have been using swim.com the app on a fossil gen 5. Problems at first in that the way I turned at the end of the pool wasn't been properly recognized by The watch. So by trying different ways of moving my arm with the watch on it I resolved that problem. I'm getting 99% accuracy.
I'm about to buy the Samsung 7 Ultra. I will try swim.com the app from the Google store as well as the onboard app and see which one I'm comfortable with.
If you guys want load swim.com app and use it instead of your standard on board swimming app and see how that goes
I don't think it is the length, I am swimming in a 25m pool and am having the same issue.
I have to pause my swim after each length, otherwise it will not track the lap and distance correctly, if at all.
After my swim when I first used it, I noticed it only tracked like half, possibly less. The same thing happened the next time I used it, which is when I started pausing after each lap.
After swimming 200m (8 laps), I didn't hit pause and just kept swimming. After another 50m (2 laps), my watch was still sitting at 200m and 8 laps. I hit pause again, and it jumped to 225m and 9 laps, so it tracked the last 1 lap, but I did 2. Had I not hit pause though, who knows how many more laps I could've done and it still would've been on 200m, or another incorrect reading.
I am beyond annoyed to pay over $500 for this watch and have it doing this. I had my Samsung GearSport for 3 years, and my brother had it for 3 years before that, and I never had any problems with swim tracking.
Samsung, you better fix this issue or I'm going with someone else.
