HR tracking on the AirPods Pro 3 does not seem to work synchronously with the Apple Watch

The HR tracking on the APP3 does not seem to work synchronously with the Apple Watch as it is intended.

I’ve been using the APP3 for a few weeks now along with my Apple Watch during workouts. I have 15 workouts worth of data in my health app, along with random testing, that led me to this discussion post.

In the health app you are able to see how your HR is being tracked by the minute (health app -> search -> Heart -> heart rate -> scroll down to “show all data” -> click on any of the items to view a certain date)

In this area, you will see an Apple Watch symbol displayed when the HR is being read via the Apple Watch and a Bluetooth symbol when it is using your APP3. In all of my testing there is not a single instance in which the HR is being pulled from the APP3 unless you are only wearing the APP3 without the watch, or if you are actively viewing your HR in the health app. Those are the only 2 scenarios in which I will see the HR data pull from the APP3.

I brought this up with an Apple Store rep and they confirmed that both the watch and AirPods should be working together to give the most accurate HR reading but that isn’t the case.

One of the reasons I bought the APP3 was so it could provide a HR reading when my Watch was failing to do so. My Watch will often not pick up my HR during certain workouts and this can depend on a number of factors like arm movement, sweat, positioning of the watch, etc… so ideally the APP3 would take over when the watch fails but this does not happen.

Whenever the watch fails to read my HR, it will not fall back to the APP3 and the HR will continue to circle until the Watch picks it up again.

Can anyone else confirm in their health data if this is the case? I am led to believe that the two do not work together for HR at all and only work independently depending on which device you have on. And if you have both on, it only considers the Apple Watch (unless you’re viewing HR in the health app for some reason)

Tl;dr: check your HR data. I do not think the APP3 and Apple Watch work together to read HR.

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