

Although microphones do not create strong magnetic fields, speakers do create strong fields, and the speakers on an iPad are directly adjacent to the built in microphone.

I also purchased an earbud with a microphone, and am having more success obtaining reasonably accurate results, keeping in mind that this is an inexpensive hobbyists tool rather than a professional tool costing hundreds of dollars.

After purchasing a demagnetizer, my watch now appears to be back to normal. Even worse, when using the built in microphone of my iPad, it magnetized my watch, causing a watch that typically runs at -1.1 sec./day to gain about 40 seconds in a day, and then to run about 5 sec./day slow. Initially, I had far more failures than successes in trying to obtain good data from this app.
