Why the hell is the Apple Watch stand ring so difficult to close?

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It's really annoying me now.
Any advice?
TIA

It’s not 🤷🏼‍♀️

I don’t find it is... every hour I’ve not stood up, it gives me a warning at ten to the hour so unless I’m on a video call I make time to stand up and stretch which usually counts for that hour. Even when I miss an hour because I’m on a call you need 12 over the day (unless you’ve changed your settings) so I get mine in easily - getting up at 6 and going to bed at 10.

Are you standing up enough?

I stand up. I move around a little as it says, but clearly it's too little or too much.
I even sets timers.
It's so frustrating!

I hate this bastard ring.

Buzzing me when I'm laid in bed at 2pm stuffing my face with crisps. If I wanna stay on my arse for 3 hours I bloody well will you patronising little bastard.

My stand one is fine - the difficulty I have is with my exercise one

'Just a short 15 minute walk would close your ring'

Oh do fuck off Apple! It's 8.30pm and I'm busy eating crisps on the sofa watching Netflix!

You have to move for a minute. If I've been up and down but it hasn't registered it, I just wave my hand about when I get the reminder. That sorts it

@Impatientwino exactly😆😆Buuut I've discovered if I click 'strength workout' it adds on time (lifting a wine glass is strength training right?) 😜

I find the stand ring the easiest, i've done 12/10 hours today..

You can lower the hours if you're finding it difficult, I usually find getting up, going to get a glass of water (keeps you hydrated) and going back to sit down usually does it (On days where i'm not working cause then i'm just running around for 9 hours)

You do know you can edit a stand hour or two back in if you think it’s ignoring you.

www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/c1h7yp/guide_how_to_manually_add_stand_hours_to_activity/

Though I think it depends which watch and which updates you are running.

It’s not! You only have to stand for a minute every hour. It’s the only one I’m guaranteed to close every day (as I have non sleeping kids plus an overactive bladder at night I usually get 16 hours 😭).

@TheatricalGiraffe

I find the stand ring the easiest, i've done 12/10 hours today..

You can lower the hours if you're finding it difficult, I usually find getting up, going to get a glass of water (keeps you hydrated) and going back to sit down usually does it (On days where i'm not working cause then i'm just running around for 9 hours)

This is what I do while I’m wfh. If I haven’t moved for an hour and it buzzes at me I get up, walk downstairs, top up my water bottle and walk back upstairs.

I don't have an Apple Watch and have never heard of stand ring before but this...

Oh do fuck off Apple! It's 8.30pm and I'm busy eating crisps on the sofa watching Netflix!

And

You have to move for a minute. If I've been up and down but it hasn't registered it, I just wave my hand about when I get the reminder. That sorts it

Made me laugh

@Onynx - thanks for the tip will try that! I have done plenty of strength training this weekend

Thank you, @BillMasheen. I've now closed my stand ring, which I know I've definitely done, but now apparently I've done 80 minutes exercise, so I clearly did it wrong! 🤣
I don't feel too badly about it as I did do 31 mins today anyway.

@Impatientwino, I have been known to mutter 'check your own ring' when I get a helpful message...

It's the exercise ring I have trouble with. Even if I walk for an hour, if I don't walk quickly enough it doesn't register it as an hours exercise. Really annoying as I have a dog who likes to poop/wee/sniff and I walk fast otherwise. Even walking for 2 hours can only just close that ring sometimes.

It has to be aerobic exercise so heart rate has to be elevated to count. Not sure what the threshold is.

I think the heartrate threshold is personalised based on the measurements it takes of your resting heartrate. It has to be 30 mins above a certain percentage of your resting rate. (130%?)