How to Change Lap Length on the Nike GPS Watch

The Nike GPS Watch has a setting that causes it to beep every time you complete a lap.

But the definition of a lap is different in many situations, so it may be beeping at intervals that aren’t helpful for you.

Our tutorial below will show you how to change lap length on the Nike GPS Watch so that you can use this feature instead of ignoring it.

How to Increase or Decrease the Nike Watch Lap Length

  1. Connect the watch to your computer.
  2. Open Nike Connect.
  3. Choose Settings.
  4. Click Laps & Intervals.
  5. Select Auto Laps.
  6. Specify the lap length or duration.
  7. Click Close and disconnect the watch.

Our guide continues below with additional information on how to change the lap length on the Nike GPS Watch.

Your Nike GPS watch is pretty customizable, despite the lack of control that you have directly from the watch.

This is because most of the settings for the Nike watch can only be performed while the watch is connected to your computer via the included USB cable.

Then, when the computer recognizes the device, you can use the Nike Connect software to make changes to the settings.

You can make a number of changes, such as changing the time on the watch or changing the lap length on the Nike GPS watch.

This might seem a little inconvenient, but since you will need to connect the watch to the computer in order to upload your run information to the Nike + website anyway, it is something that you should be familiar with.

Related: Our Apple Watch water drop icon guide can answer questions that you might have about the water lock mode on the device.

How to Adjust Nike Watch Lap Length (Guide with Pictures)

One of the most useful things about the Nike GPS watch is the audible beeps that it produces when you complete a lap.

This provides a good method for knowing roughly how far you are running without actually having to look at your watch.

You can learn how to change the lap length on the Nike GPS watch to modify the intervals at which these beeps occur.

Step 1: Launch the Nike Connect software on your computer.

If you are prompted to update the software, you should perform the update before proceeding. Additionally, if you have not uploaded all of the run data from your watch, then this upload will also need to occur before you can access the Nike watch Settings menu.

Step 2: Click the Settings drop-down menu at the bottom of the window.

nike connect settings menu

Step 3: Click Laps & Intervals at the bottom of the column on the left side of the window.

open nike connect laps and intervals menu

Step 4: Check the Auto Laps option at the center of the window.

Step 5: Type the number of miles, kilometers, meters, or minutes at which you want the intervals to occur, then click the drop-down menu to the right of that number and choose the unit of measure that you want to use.

how to change lap length on the nike gps watch

Step 6: Click Close at the bottom of the window, then disconnect the watch from your computer.

Now that you know how to change the lap length on the Nike GPS Watch, you will be able to use this setting to help you as you run instead of ignoring it because the previous lap length was set at an interval that wasn’t helpful to you.

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