You may not have known it, but your Apple Watch calculate the number of calories burned. You can also set daily calorie goals. Indeed, your Apple Watch is based on your personal information such as your weight, your age Or your sexe for example to calculate several factors, such as the number of calories burned. This feature can be very useful, especially when looking to lose weight or engage in regular physical activity. Know that your Apple Watch is also able to calculate the number of steps taken. Please note, for these functions to be as reliable as possible, you must always take care to keep personal information up to date, and to understand any significant change (sudden weight loss or gain, for example). Thus, you will find in this article the different steps to follow in order to understand how your Apple Watch calculates the number of calories burned as well as the steps to follow to view this data on your Apple connected watch. Good reading!
What technology does Apple use to calculate the number of calories burned with theApple Watch?
Your connected watch Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), will calculate the number of calories burned depending of informations that you entered and movements you are doing. Those are the computer components of your Apple Watch as well as computer processing algorithms that contains the latter which will help establish the calculation of the number of calories burned, throughout your day.
Be careful, however, not to rely 100% on your connected watch: the calculations are not always exact and certain parameters may not be taken into account by your connected watch. Apple Watch. The data you read should be interpreted as a general idea of the number of calories burned, not as an exact science.
How to display the number of calories actively burned on your Apple Watch?
Your Apple Watch will display the number of calories that you burned active, that is, by doing a physical activity. In terms of calories burned passively (the calories that we normally burn per day, by breathing, by circulating the blood ...), you can only consult them on your iPhone. As said before, first make sure you have entered your ipersonal information. To do this, follow the steps below:
- On your iPhone, open the app Apple Watch
- Press My watch
- Press Health
- Press Health Profile
- Press Edit in order to enter the new data
Here are the steps to follow in order to display the number of calories actively burned on your Apple Watch:
- Press the button on the digital crown in order to display the apps on your Apple Watch
- Find the app Activity whose icon is represented by three circles of different colors
- When you see the activity rings on the face of your watch, turn the digital crown until you access information on the calories burned when you have exercised
How to display the number of calories burned on his iPhone?
It is also possible to display the number of calories burned on your iPhone. Indeed, the information contained on your iPhone will be much more detailed. Here are the steps to follow:
- Go to the app Activity from your iPhone
- Swipe down on your iPhone screen until you find the number of calories burned during different activities, represented by a graph
- Below the burnt calories graph you will find a tab Total: the latter will add up the calories burned in a passive (naturally) and calories burned so active.
You can also access theactivity history different months by tapping on the top left corner of your iPhone screen.
