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"It’s also pretty well established that AW has the best motion tracking which shows up when you use the swim feature for distance. ... In swimming, it’s not even close. 100% of garmins worn during our pool swims are incorrect, regardless of swimmer level. ... Every single Garmin incorrectly reported swim distance vs manual counting. Freestyle 4000m in 25m pool."


"My Apple Watch will reliably measure my OWS distance accurately - if I’m doing a swim that has a known distance - point to point along a river or across a lake - my Apple Watch will show a plausible distance and the map will not show anything unexpected"


"For me the config with pool + configured length works best and is way more accurate."

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"It’s also pretty well established that AW has the best motion tracking which shows up when you use the swim feature for distance. ... In swimming, it’s not even close. 100% of garmins worn during our pool swims are incorrect, regardless of swimmer level. ... Every single Garmin incorrectly reported swim distance vs manual counting. Freestyle 4000m in 25m pool."


"I like the apple gives me the actual normal time but gives a score on level of intensity of the work out separately"


"For me the config with pool + configured length works best and is way more accurate."

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"the accuracy of the heart rate monitor. ... I compared both with a chest band and apple tracked more closely both on a daily basis and during workouts."


"they’re state of the art for HR monitoring on the wrist."


"superior HR tracking"

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"I unlock my computer and phone with it."


"the fact that they integrate to the Apple Watch simply cannot be understated for me, I couldn’t go back to Garmin now, it is just so much part of my life now. ... Tracking weightlifting workouts, nutrition and other stuff, analysis of the data, send messages to HomePod, changing NC automatically, sending emails …."


"works very well as an iPhone extension ... your iPhone is in your pocket or nearby and the phone rings. Who cares, because you can take/make calls on your watch! ... Stuff like that is great."

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"the Apple Watch cellular model lets you leave your phone behind. ... Perfect for activities like running."


"Being able to run with my Watch only connected to cellular service is soooo freeing. ... I have music and podcasts available to keep me entertained and getting audio cues from Runna for my running plan is just perfection."


"LTE was the deciding factor for me to switch to a Series 10."

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"Apple Watch will count a mid-lap stroke change (as you described) as two laps very reliably. ... For example: if you do 100IM in a 50m pool, it will appear as 200m IM in the Fitness app. ... So if you are really serious about loving mid-lap stroke changes I wouldn't use it."


"My Apple Watch is terribly inaccurate. ... Misses laps and seems to only count part of a lap at times which in a pool is odd. ... I’m a former college swimmer and from talking to others who are efficient and take few strokes per lap it seems to be off as well for them"


"As long as there's still the chance of it to just die after swimming with it (doing laps - this is what the watch was designed for, right)"

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"Mine kept dieing one me mid run ... after two years of using it twice hours was about all an aw had battery for when using music and gps! By the 2:15 mark it would be dead. ... When I started running for longer than 2 hrs my battery would die mid run"


"Also the battery life was trash, I’d leave my new series 10 in the drawer charged and it’d be dead the next day."


"The battery life is a literal joke. ... Do an activity? There goes 75% of your battery."

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"If you are in long sleeves in the rain, you need to lock the touchscreen to prevent accidental touches. But that prevents you from using the touchscreen without holding to unlock for a few seconds. So if you are doing intervals, it can be hard to end the interval quickly."


"the Apple interface being badly interfered with by water/and clothing contact in heavy rain. ... I lost a trail marathon stats and mapping etc mid run. ... It was frankly infuriating"


"I already got sick and tired of touch screens with my Apple Watch ... Dripping sweat, rain and sleeves really screw with touch screens ... where I live we have like 6 months worth of snow so needing to take off my gloves and disable a screen lock before being able to pause my workout is an annoying PITA."

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"I dont get overloaded with notifications like my apple watch"


"the constant ping of notifications were annoying"


"I dont want to have watch that distracts me with telling me that I have another message on whats app, or another email."

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"If you’re healthy and looking to improve your fitness, performance, or recovery, the Apple Watch probably isn’t the best tool. ... limited in terms of true fitness insights."


"the metrics, data, tracking, training plans, insight, is all so much better on the Garmin."


"the workouts are primitive"

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r/divingIs the garmin MK3 good for me
6 months ago

I returned the mk3i 43mm. It’s heavy for daily use and the screen is small for diving. So trying to do everything but it’s not good at anything. I got the descent x50i instead and just use the super light Apple Watch 10 for everything else. The Apple Watch Ultra was also too heavy for me. To me heavy is ok for just a fashion watch. But for a fitness watch I don’t like it.

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r/GarminApple Watch to Garmin Experience
8 months ago

I came from an Apple Watch series 10 a couple months ago and I wish I would’ve switched sooner. If you’re looking for a reliable fitness watch, there’s just no competition. I even wore both for a few days and I noticed that Apple Watch was constantly giving me credit for calories I burned doing absolutely nothing and by the end of the day my calories burned were hundreds higher than the Garmin. I love that the Garmin is a lot more conservative with their calories Not to mention when I did a workout Apple Watch and their metrics seems so basic. It was literally just calories burned and heart rate and how long I worked out where I was Garmin even showed the sweat loss and estimated to how much my water intake should be.

r/GarminThis is why I stick with garmin
5 months ago

Do it man. I switched from a series 10 and the battery life is the strangest thing to get used to. It’s like if you have a car with a standard gas tank you have to fill up every week. Then going to a car you only fill up every 6 months. I fully charged my forerunner 970 last night and it’s a day later. What’s my battery at? 95%

r/GarminGarmin vs Apple
7 months ago

I have the 970. I first switched from an Apple Watch series 10 to a venu 3 before switching again to a 970. I like even the small things like step cadence and estimated sweat loss. If I do a workout it estimates how much sweat I lost and changes my hydration goal

r/GarminWatchesConsidering ditching my Apple Watch
10 months ago

Both me and my wife switched from Apple Watch Series 10 to a venue three and we couldn’t be happier. I thought I would miss my Apple Watch so much more but the more I thought about it the more I realized all I use my Apple Watch for was phone calls, and texting notifications and timers. All stuff that I can do on my Garmin watch but better. And the fitness tracking actually seems way better. The Apple Watch would always have my calories way too high, and I would always question it and not believe it whereas the Garmin is a lot more conservative and I actually believe the numbers

r/GarminWatchesApple Watch Ultra 3 battery (970 comparison)
6 months ago

Yeah, I always had better luck with the sleep tracking on the Garmin after switching from Apple Watch. My Apple Watch sleep tracking was so basic and I felt the duration times were so off. And I’m hearing from the new videos on Apple and their sleep scores say that it factors in less things like it doesn’t counter HRV while you’re asleep it goes off consistency, duration, and that’s it. I set my Garmin to sync to Apple health and I got a sleep score and it was so wildly far off. It was insane lol one day I only got 3 1/2 hours of sleep and I got a 95 sleep score on Apple lol the Garmin was correct in telling me I got shit sleep. Definitely happy with my decision to stick to Garmin.

r/GarminLooking to move to Garmin from Apple Watch, tell me your experience!
6 months ago

For me, my Apple Watch never knew when I woke up or did anything and the timing was always off. Where is my Garmin is dead on with pretty much everything. Idk 🤷‍♂️

r/GarminWatchesGarmin user since 2017, thoughts for the future
5 months ago

🤷‍♂️ came from Apple Watch last spring. It might be cheaper but it doesn’t seem better. Sleep tracking (for me) was far worse on the Apple Watch, fitness tracking is better on garmin, calorie burn, calculating tdee, etc. just everything is better for me. So meh

r/GarminWatchesWhy Do People Choose Garmin Over Apple or Samsung for Fitness?
4 months ago

Personally, i had Apple Watch only since the very beginning. That’s 10 years of being stuck on one platform. Same watch faces. Slow to roll out features. But the biggest for me was: sleep tracking sucked ass on my Apple Watch and the calorie burn was just laughable. The calorie burn on a totally lazy day on my AW put me in the “moderate exercise” category. It was just silly. My wife got a garmin last spring and i got jealous. It had a lot more features that i considered health centric that i liked. The calorie burn made sense. The metrics it gave were just plain cool to look at. It integrated well with the loseit app. The watch face store is just amazing. Makes my garmin feel new all the time. Everything i wanted out of the Apple Watch needed an app and usually a subscription to do. Sleep tracking? Have fun with the pillow app. Subscribe to premium to unlock basic features even the garmin has for free! Calorie tracking beyond some rings? Download bevel. Subscription though! Hydration tracking? Water minder app. Like there’s apps to do stuff, but i just find the functionality on the base garmin experience to be preferable. I just like it. It’s nice.

r/CICOWhat fitness tracker are you using?
3 months ago

I wear both an Apple Watch and a Garmin. But honestly, if I had to choose one, it would just be the Garmin. For health data and hell even just telling time the Garmin is miles ahead of Apple. Great thing about Garmin is that they hit pretty much every price point. You can get one of their fitness bands for as low as $150 or more expensive watches.

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r/apple[Apple] Introducing Apple Watch Ultra 3
6 months ago

Fairly new to Apple Watches. I got the Apple Watch 10 as my first watch only a few months ago. I love it. But wondering if I want the ultra. I use it for running and would love the longer battery life. Any suggestions one why I should or shouldn’t upgrade from the 10? With the new sleep score be available on the 10? And the blood pressure update is only on the new watches correct?

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r/GarminWatchesAW to Garmin - and maybe back?? - be honest
4 months ago

Had AW 6, 7, 10... Had Garmin Fenix 7 somewhere between AW... Now with Garmin instinct 3. ALl has pros and cons. none is perfect. For me it's great to switch from time to time... I would happily do the same between iphone and android, but the cost of switch in terms of software is crazy...

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r/AppleWatchWeekly Buying/trading/selling advice, pre-orders and shipping Megathread
6 months ago

Se 3 or s10 very good watch I have the 10 very good watch if you are not a keen sports fan

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r/StravaWhat device do you use for Strava? Feels like Garmin users are overrepresented in the forum from the discussion over the last day given how some think the sky is falling.
5 months ago

Wahoo Element Bolt for road cycling, Garmin Edge 520 for MTB, Garmin Forerunner 735XT for Triathlon and Apple Watch Series 10 for everything else. Have a hate relationship with my Garmin devices (which is why I got the Bolt when my 520 decided that properly recording altitude data was not in its best interest), but who’s to say that they don’t go after Wahoo next for some idiotic reason?

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r/bevelhealthMy Fitness Tracking Setup
4 months ago

Hi all! I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while in order to share the way I keep track and analyze my fitness data. The goal is to both share my inputs and hear some feedback to sss what works for others. **Hardware:** **Apple Watch Series 10** I use this for the vast majority of my day as it has all the important sensors and it writes everything in Apple Health of course. In terms of workouts, I use it for the gym, padel and running - workouts I need to be able to check the time, pace and other important metrics at a glance. **Amazfit Helio Strap** It’s been called the Whoop Killer. It’s super lightweight, has no screen just like the Whoop but the main difference is that you only pay the hardware itself (100€) with no yearly fees. It’s been having monthly updates so far and one of the main ones is the ability to write HRV in Apple Health as well. I use it to sleep (much more comfortable than the AW) and for CrossFit (as I don’t want to damage my AW) - all the metrics (REM sleep, time slept, BPMs, SPO2, etc) are transferred via Zepp (the devices’ app) to Apple Health as well. **Software:** **Bevel** The best discovery of 2025 by far. I come from using Athlytic and MyFitnessPal and Bevel just combines all in one in an amazing, elegant and very useful interface. It gives you recovery, sleep and strain levels, the AI chat definitely need some improvements (it’s kind of robotic and repetitive) but it works, and it even gives you a daily score based on the food you eat. I’ve been tracking my macros for years on MyFitnessPal and never thought any other app would even compare to it, but Bevel does. The app’s database is insane, it has AI recognition if you take a picture of your food and it even scans barcodes. I also log my gym workout routines there to see what muscle groups need more work - Bevel also has an exercise library that’s quite complete and it even gives you workout suggestions. It’s my holy grail and of course reads ALL the data (weight, water intake, sleep, daily steps, etc) from Apple Health that is necessary. **Water Tracker** I’ve tested dozens of apps to track my water intake and I kept coming back to this one. The UI is a little too “fun” for my taste as I want things simple but it has some cool widgets, it gives you weekly and monthly averages and has a lot of different kind of beverages you can choose from, which give you different kind of water percentages. Things like coffee, decaf, energy drinks, alcoholic beverages and juices are obviously included. **Apple Health** It’s basically the hub that collects all the data from both wearables and other apps and writes it into other apps that I need to (Bevel). I don’t really open it as much - only when I write manually my weight and waist circumference) **Zepp** Again, I only use this to transfer the data from the Helio Strap to Apple Health. It has some really cool (and Whoop like) features like Biocharge, Exertion and Stress levels, but given I don’t use it 24/7 I don’t really rely on it too for daily analysis. The user interface is super nice tho. **Apple Fitness** It’s super basic, disappointing even. It doesn’t even have a decent way to connect to friends like Whoop does for example. But I take a look at it from time to time to check if I’m closing my rings (which the Helio Strap can contribute to but only while working out, not for the rest the day’s active energy) And that’s it. I’m no Bryan Johnson but I like to keep track of this as much as I can. Let me know if you have any suggestions! **UPDATE:** Since working out with the Helio Strap won't contribute to Apple Fitness Rings and the data Zepp sends to Apple Health is very limited, I added another app for that. It's called HealthFit, it allows the manual workouts import to Apple Health/Fitness, it fills Apple Watch's exercise and active rings (only with workouts) and it provides some cool data and statistics.

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r/AppleWatchWhy are the battery lives so bad?
3 months ago

i used series 10 and the battery can last a day or 1.5 depending. the SE u mentioned could had shorter and lesser battery life too so the comparison might not be accurate.

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r/whoopIs Whoop worth rejoining
5 months ago

Leaving Whoop after 3 years shortly. Going to the Apple Watch. I think the data is ok, but I am more “at a glance” with it now and I don’t see the value in the subscription approach any longer. I have a separate add on for Apple Fitness, so I’m going to take a year off and assess a new approach.

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r/SuuntoWhy not choose Apple Watch?
5 months ago

I had Garmin and Coros, at this moment I am with an Apple Watch series 10, the truth is I can't complain because I had no problem with this watch for what I do (I'm a marathoner). Anyway, I'll exchange it for a Suunto Run, I haven't received it yet. The main points that made me go for the change: - An Amazon offer ($199) - I am very tempted to try Suunto - I couldn't get used to using touch for many things when training. - Although I had no problems with the battery when running a marathon (it consumed 30% in 3 hours and 24 minutes), the fact of charging it every day or hopefully every other day has already made me tired.