Start a swimming workout
- Open the Workout app.
- Scroll to Pool Swim or Open Water Swim. Use Pool Swim for laps in a pool and Open Water Swim for swimming in places like a lake or ocean.
- Tap to start the workout or tap the more button to set a calorie, distance, or time goal.
- For Pool Swim, turn the Digital Crown to set the pool length. This helps your Apple Watch accurately measure your laps and distance. Then tap Start.
- Wait for the three-second countdown. To skip the countdown, tap the screen.
When the workout starts, the screen automatically locks to prevent accidental taps from water droplets.
- To pause your swim, press the Digital Crown and side button at the same time.
- To resume your swim, press the Digital Crown and side button again.
To check your progress, check your watch face. You can choose which metrics you see on the screen.
Here's how to set up a screen lock to protect the info on your Apple Watch. Due to inactivity, your session will end in approximately 2 minutes. Extend your session by clicking OK below. Apple Watch Series 3. Apple Watch - Set Up Screen Lock. Apple Watch - Set Up Screen Lock. Connect with us on Messenger. Apple Watch Series 3 and 4 models all have an option to enable the screen lock feature on the watch itself, without having to use the iPhone: To begin, go to the Apps menu. You can head thereby pressing the Digital Crown, the round red button on the right side of your Apple Watch. Way 3: Lock Your Watch Automatically. You can also lock your watch automatically. This is very easy. This method allows you to lock your watch if you are not wearing it. Here are the steps that need to be followed. Step 1: On your iPhone, open the Apple Watch app an click on General. Step 2: On turn on the feature of Wrist Detection.
Apple Watch Series 1 and Apple Watch (1st generation) aren't suitable for swimming. Learn about the water resistance of your Apple Watch.
Unlock your Apple Watch and clear water from the speakers
When you start a swimming workout, your screen locks to prevent accidental taps. You can see the Lock icon at the top of the screen. To use your watch, you need to unlock the screen.
- To pause your workout, press the Digital Crown and the side button at the same time.
- Dry your screen. If your screen's wet, the water might cause accidental taps.
- Turn the Digital Crown to unlock the screen and clear any water from your Apple Watch. Your watch makes a sound, and you might feel water on your wrist.
To lock your Apple Watch again, swipe right, then tap the Lock button .
End your workout
- To pause your workout, press the Digital Crown and side button.
- Turn the Digital Crown to unlock the screen.
- Swipe right, then tap the End button .
When your workout ends, your Apple Watch shows you a summary of your workout, including the strokes that you swam. To see more, check your workout history in the Activity app on your iPhone.
View splits and sets
- On your iPhone, open the Activity app.
- Tap the Workouts tab.
- Tap the workout that you want to view.
The Pool Swim workout automatically tracks your splits and auto sets, while the Open Water Swim workout tracks splits. Splits are your total workout time divided by distance. Auto sets show your rest and swim time separately.
In earlier versions of watchOS, your rest time was subtracted from your splits. In the latest version of watchOS, your splits include your rest time.
Get better results
Apple Watch Screen Lock
- Your Apple Watch estimates your measurements during workouts based on the information that you entered during setup. Here's how each workout is measured:
- Pool Swim: When you start a workout, be sure to accurately set the pool length to help your Apple Watch measure laps and distance. GPS isn't used during a Pool Swim, and water might prevent a heart-rate measurement, but calories, laps, and distance will still be tracked using the built-in accelerometer.
- Open Water Swim: GPS will only provide distance when you do a freestyle stroke. Water might prevent a heart-rate measurement, but calories will still be tracked using the built-in accelerometer.
- Learn how to update your personal information.
- See your Activity history.
- Learn more about the Workout app.
- Learn about each workout type on your Apple Watch.
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There’s a feature of the Apple Watch Swimming Activity where a countdown appears on screen while a beeping noise appears and suddenly, the watch screen is locked and it’s time to swim! While this provides a nice official start to your workout, the only impact that locking the screen has is to prevent water from interacting with the screen.
Without getting into a long, scientific explanation about touchscreens and pool water, the Apple Watch touch screen is affected by the pool water. The Apple Watches use capacitative touch screens, which are activated by the changes in the electrostatic field across their surfaces caused by your conductive finger. Since pool water contains many dissolved ions, it is similarly conductive and can simulate touch. By locking the screen, Apple is preventing any “accidental touches” that the pool water may create that could disrupt your swim.
The Swim.com app has been designed in a way that touches on the screen only act to scroll between views while you’re swimming. Once you’re done your swim, the Swim.com app uses Force Touch to end the swim, which cannot be activated by the conductivity of the water alone.
But what about that nifty feature Apple demoed where water is ejected from the Apple Watch Series 2 at the end of the swim? That also has no effect on how waterproof your Apple Watch is, but it does clear the water out of the hole for the microphone/speaker so that the sound isn’t distorted. It’s a cool feature to have, but Apple doesn’t have an API present to enact it in our app at this time. You can start and end a Pool Swim from the Activity app to get the same benefit, but in our experience, the water clears out of the speaker/microphone hole pretty quickly anyway.
Lock Apple Watch Face
Short answer: Slicer software for android. No. Picture editing software, free download for mac. Locking the screen has no impact on how waterproof your watch is.
If you’d like to find out more about Apple Watch 2’s water resistance rating and what you can and can’t do with the watch, please visit this article at Apple Support: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205000
How Do You Lock Your Apple Watch
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