Apple Watch didn't record Swim distance or save time

[STL]

Did an indoor pool swim yesterday. Chose the Indoor Swim mode in the Strava app on my Apple Watch and swam ½ a mile. The watch showed the time passing, but never any distance. When the activity was uploaded to Strava, it only uploaded heart rate, no distance, no time. What did I do wrong?

[kavinoven]

I also faced the same issue with my apple watch during swimming. Now got a lot of positive recommendations from your comment section. Thanks for posting, I was struggling a bit due to this issue. 

[Chris1]

my apple watch 8 when i first bought last year tracked open water swim distances and then a few months ago just stopped tracking distance and only time now. Very Very frustrating

[Joshz]

Experienced the same issue today, just wondering if you got a solution?

[Arshak]

The same happened to me on my Apple Watch 8. Started a Swim activity on Strava, during the activity it was tracking the time but not the distance. After the activity got pushed on my feed, I see it shows 0 minutes moving time (while in reality I swam 1h 22m) and no distance. Only the heart rate is correct. 
Looks lame 👎

[Nm54]

Same here. Only time and calories. No heart rate. No distance. What’s up?

[STL]

I submitted a support ticket and the reply was basically “tough luck, Strava doesn’t do this.” The Apple Watch workout app DOES track indoor swims, so you can use that, but the Strava app doesn’t track indoor swims.

[Jane · Accepted solution]

Hi @STL and @danielfc 

Sorry to hear of the issue recording distance.  I'm going to ask both of you to please submit a support ticket and we’ll be happy to investigate further.  Thank you.

[Ebri]

Hello, do I understand it correctly that for apple watch strava is useless when using while swimming?

When do you want to upgrade strava, so it can do the same as already built in app by apple?

[Rcarolin]

Submitting a support ticket does not help in this case, https://support.strava.com/hc/requests/2723606 Hank told me to search forums for a solution and to give feedback about GPS data not being saved when recording a swim with the Strava app on an Apple watch.