Go around the desert for a week? Ride the Grand Captain of Yosemite? Diving through the great local barrier? Crap. Has anyone found a perfect example of how GPS has improved on the Apple Watch Ultra, and he did it without even leaving his property.
A mile and a bit of a walk, but enclosed in a garden
What you see above is the routine of Reddit user suburbandad1999, who is usually tasked with mowing the lawn with one of those machines that you push as you walk. The garden is relatively small, but since it occupies its entire surface, the user records an outdoor walking workout that counts perfectly as a physical activity session.
Suburbandad1999 used an Apple Watch Series 4 until recently when it was swapped out for an Apple Watch Ultra. The comparison of the GPS recording of the physical activity of mowing the lawn is obvious: while with the GPS of the Series 4 there are errors due to the short distance between the start and the end of the route, that of the precise Apple Watch Ultra shows all the laps it has performed on the garden lawn.
That doesn’t mean the Apple Watch Series 4’s GPS is bad, but its margin of error means that a course as particular as this on such a small surface is not correctly recorded. In fact, if you look at the total distance traveled, there’s over a mile recorded by mistake.
The improved GPS accuracy of the Apple Watch Ultra is thus demonstrated. And without having to make risky routes through the mountains, here the only risk was that the lawnmower would step on our feet because of an oversight.
