Nope, I don’t have one. /r/Garmin would be a good resource. They get into discussions about chest straps.

Chest strap is always recommended if you want high accuracy.

Tap it and see what happens?

I would suggest a Garmin Vivosmart band for him, or a life alert system. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/782585

You are not going to get blood pressure from a watch, but you can buy him a blood pressure cuff that reports to you.

What is it you need most? Would a daily phone call be the better option? I know a few people who call their parent every day to check in.

Maybe that sentence needs a comma. “addresses issue, making the battery drain faster for some users”…

You can check for the battery bug. Just-me-for-now posted:

On your iPhone, open Watch app. Click on General and scroll down to bottom to diagnostic logs. Click. If there are problems with your watch, this is where the information is written that developers want to access. This comes from years of being a tech analyst. lol. Open one. You can see at the top of the log that it is on 10.1 and the build should be (21S67). At the end of the first bracket of information you will see bug_type and 298. This seems to be the same bug that was in 10.1 beta two that was patched in 10.1 beta three.

It’s part of the whole 10.1 problem. I would just wait to update after apple fixes it.

The main battery issue thread https://old.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/17guccg/101_massive_battery_drain_bug/ and the apple support forums https://discussions.apple.com/community/watch

Did they ask you to go into the diagnostic logs from the phone and look for 10.1 build 21s67 bug_type 298?

According to another poster, Apple sent out a memo around 1:30 pm Eastern today about the issue, they are working on a patch, no ETA. (Seems some people were fed the beta instead of the correct update. This is the same battery bug the beta testers discovered in 10.1 beta two.)

It’s a known issue. Unfortunately some people got the 10.1 beta instead of the corrected update. Apple sent out a memo today, and apple support doesn’t know when the fix will be available.

I imagine it will be soon. Fixing this is pretty important.

Just-me-for-now posted instructions for how to find out if you are one of the unlucky people who were fed the beta instead of the correct update:

On your iPhone, open Watch app. Click on General and scroll down to bottom to diagnostic logs. Click. If there are problems with your watch, this is where the information is written that developers want to access. This comes from years of being a tech analyst. lol. Open one. You can see at the top of the log that it is on 10.1 and the build should be (21S67). At the end of the first bracket of information you will see bug_type and 298. This seems to be the same bug that was in 10.1 beta two that was patched in 10.1 beta three.

Another person posted that apple is working on it and sent a memo to the apple suppirt folks today, no ETA on the fix yet.

Check to see if you are one of the unlucky people who were fed the beta instead of the correct update.

On your iPhone, open Watch app. Click on General and scroll down to bottom to diagnostic logs. Click. If there are problems with your watch, this is where the information is written that developers want to access. This comes from years of being a tech analyst. lol. Open one. You can see at the top of the log that it is on 10.1 and the build should be (21S67). At the end of the first bracket of information you will see bug_type and 298. This seems to be the same bug that was in 10.1 beta two that was patched in 10.1 beta three.

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That I don’t know. I’ve been checking out the inexpensive Instinct, which does not. There are many, many other Garmin watches. I recommend asking about options on /r/Garmin People on that sub are generous with their knowledge. I’ve gotten a kick out of lurking there for the last few months.

I’ve started looking into all the details relatively recently, so I might be wrong - it seems like you can import the Garmin data, but that the Garmin health app is so much better organized and more comprehensive most people using iPhones simply don’t bother.

Depending on what you planned to use the Ultra for, you might want to consider a less power hungry watch? My elderly AW is still on 9.whatever and I’m hesitant to update the os. I had been thinking about getting a newer AW soon, but now I’m looking at Garmin options instead.

There was someone on /r/Garmin today complaining about how their watch battery was only lasting 8 days before it needed recharging and something must be wrong! I laughed, somewhat bitterly…