Fix false touches on your Apple Watch to keep tracking your radness

I've been using an Apple Watch to track my bike rides using the Strava app for the last year or so. I had some issues with a Garmin head unit that I had a while back, and once I started tracking with the Apple Watch I realized I liked that a lot more. The data isn't in your face, but you still get to roast your buddies when you PR that segment you've been trying for.

One problem I have had with this setup though, is false touches. The Apple Watch uses some sort of Cupertino magic to tell when your finger is touching the screen, to start and pause rides, change apps.. whatever. But then you start sweating. And maybe you have a jacket on or a long sleeve jersey, and the Watch gets a little confused. Did the jacket just tell your watch to delete the ride you're currently on? Yes. Yes it did. So how do we fix that?

Water Lock mode to the rescue!

To prevent your Apple Watch from reacting to "false touches" by your sweaty jersey, jacket, or the touch of an alien ghost rider:

• Start your ride on Strava (or Slopes, or whatever you use to track your rad activity)
• Swipe up to get access to the Control Center
• Touch the water droplet to enable Water Lock (more info here)
• Do you thing! Get rowdy! Nothing can stop you now. Your app will actually take over the screen again after you enable water lock mode, it may just take a second
• When you want to interact with the Watch screen again, just push the dial in for a second to disable Water Lock

ProTip: Disable auto-pause if you have it on, because all software is terrible but auto-pause is somehow worse. Strava will trim your pauses anyway, so just be free, my friends.