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When you Check Heart Rate on Apple Watch, Apple Watch measures your heart rate continuously during the workout and for 3 minutes after it ends to figure out your workout recovery rate. Check your settings if you don’t see your heart rate. With this and other information it gathers, Apple Watch can figure out how many calories you’ve burned.
The Apple Watch is now a must-have for people who care about their health or are active. You can keep track of your heart rate all day with Apple’s built-in Heart Rate app. You can even put your heart rate right on the face of your Apple Watch to get to your information faster. This feature can save your life because it makes it easy to check on your heart health throughout the day.
Apple Watch also checks your heart rate when you’re still and sometimes when you’re walking (if you have an Apple Watch Series 1 or later). Since Apple Watch takes these measurements in the background based on what you do, the time between them will vary. Apple Watch also figures out a daily resting heart rate and walking average by putting together data from the accelerometer and background heart rate readings when enough background readings are available.
How to Check Heart Rate on Apple Watch
- Press the Digital Crown and open the Heart Rate app, which looks like a heart on a red background.
- When the app starts, you can see the most recent heart rate reading, which should have been taken in the last 10 minutes.
- Wait a moment for a new reading to be taken and displayed
- Use the Digital Crown or your finger to scroll through three different heart rate values: your current heart rate, your resting heart rate, and your average while walking.
How to track heart rate on Apple Watch during a workout
- Tap the Workout app icon on your Apple Watch.
- Scroll through the list and select the type of activity that best matches your workout. Tap to select a workout type.
- To end a workout, swipe right on the watch face and tap End (X).
FAQs
The Apple Watch is capable of tracking many health-related aspects of your body, including heart rate. While it’s not as precise as the measurement a person would get in a hospital or medical setting, numerous studies over the past few years suggest the Apple Watch’s readings have a decent accuracy rate.
Tachycardia refers to a high resting heart rate. In adults, the heart usually beats between 60 and 100 times per minute. Doctors usually consider a heart rate of over 100 beats per minute to be too fast. Factors such as age and fitness levels can affect it.
In watchOS 9, you can learn about the intensity level of your workout by viewing Heart Rate Zone information on your Apple Watch. Heart Rate Zones are a percentage of your maximum heart rate and are automatically calculated and personalized using your health data.