Obviously, this means the watch knows I’m not standing up, so why is it counting steps while I’m driving at speeds of 10, 20, 30, 40 even 50 mph??? It makes zero sense.

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Chefs working in a kitchen on their feet all day, moving from station to station in the kitchen, get lousy step counts, because most of the time their Apple Watch arm is holding something and not swinging.

My observations come from the first week I got my Apple Watch, trying to figure out how to get stand credit. This was 5 1/2 years ago.

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Over the years, I’ve experimented laying down, sitting, walking, driving, etc…. While driving the fact that you are going 65MPH does seem to affect how many arm swings needed to get stand credit.

During my duty, whilst sat in the cab, not standing or walking, only driving, my Apple Watch (both Series 6 and Ultra) count a significant number of steps (often several hundred over a typical 7-8 hour duty).

Obviously, the more ‘steps’ being recorded, the more calories I’m supposedly burning. Unless the active calories are calculated based on heart rate only.

is the bus you drive manual gearbox or automatic? I recently hired a car with a manual gear box and noticed that my steps were increasing with every gear change/clutch action. Clutch, gearshift and watch were all “on the left”!

I’ve sent some Feedback to Apple using the link you sent to me. Thank you. In the meantime, I will have to get in the habit of turning fitness tracking off within the watch app. That stops all erroneous steps and presumably calories burned whilst I’m driving the bus. Don’t seem to have the same problem in the car.

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That seems really rubbish. The algorithm or whatever should take everything into account. That way it would be massively more accurate.

So frustrating. Surely a tech company like Apple can get this right. There must be some sort of algorithm that can ignore erroneous steps that could be built into the watch software.

I am also facing the same issue with my Apple Ultra 2. It is not only counting steps when I am driving my car but it also counts phantom steps when I am sitting at one place e.g. working at my desk. I have opened a support ticket with Apple. I will share an update if they are able to find a workaround.

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So frustrating. Surely a tech company like Apple can get this right. There must be some sort of algorithm that can ignore erroneous steps that could be built into the watch software.

The Apple Watch only sees your Apple Watch arm movements. It does not know the position of your body, nor what your feet are doing.

I simulated several gearshift/clutch actions whilst traveling on a train and confirmed that my watch had incremented my step count accordingly.

Despite counting all of these erroneous steps, both watches are not counting stand minutes or giving me any credit for standing in the fitness app during the same period.

I’ve sent some Feedback to Apple using the link you sent to me. Thank you. In the meantime, I will have to get in the habit of turning fitness tracking off within the watch app. That stops all erroneous steps and presumably calories burned whilst I’m driving the bus. Don’t seem to have the same problem in the car.