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How To Disable Apple Watch Heart Rate Tracking

Some Apple Watch users are really not that interested in the wearable’s capabilities of measuring and recording their pulse readings. It’s true that this feature is one of the important battery drainers of the wrist gadget. However, with the release of Watch OS 1.0.1, heart rate measurements have considerably dropped in frequency, because of the…




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Apple Watch Sporadic Heart Rate Measurement A Feature Not A Bug

After updating to Watch OS 1.0.1 numerous Apple Watch owners, including myself, have noticed that the wearable doesn’t automatically measure the heart rate every 10 minutes, as it usually did, while running the inaugural operating system version. Most of us considered that this might be a bug that creped in this new version, or a…




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Disable Fitness Tracking To Save iPhone Battery

Starting with the release of iPhone 5S, Apple’s smartphones have been equipped with motion coprocessors, which have the role to measure and store data tracked by iPhone’s various sensors. The M’s gather information from the accelerometer, gyroscope, compass and the newly available barometer detector. The M8 (iPhone 6 and 6 Plus) or M7 (iPhone 5S)…