Apple Health and Health Connect

hi.fitness can exchange training data with your phone's health app - Apple Health on iPhone, Health Connect on Android. It works in both directions, and you decide on each one separately.

Open More → Settings → Apple Health (or Health Connect on Android).

Bringing activity in

Switch on Import and hi.fitness reads:

• Workouts you did outside the app - a run, a swim, a bike ride, a session your watch recorded. They appear on the matching day in the Workouts tab. Anything that covers ground - a walk, a run, a ride - gets a card of its own, with six figures and a map. Tap See details on that card and the whole activity opens up: the route on a map, your speed or pace against your heart rate over the whole session, each kilometre compared against the next, a heart-rate section with your average, lowest and highest, the climb, and whatever else your device measured - steps on a walk, cadence and power on a ride. Drag across the chart and a pin walks along the route, so you can see exactly where you sped up or where the hill was.

Details open for every activity that covers ground, not only the ones with GPS. A treadmill run or a pool swim has no map and no per-kilometre breakdown, but the summary and the heart-rate section are still there.

• Body weight - one entry per day, so it feeds your progress charts without you typing it in.
• Steps and calories burned - the whole-day totals, at the top of the Workouts tab, with a chart of how your day went hour by hour from 6:00 onwards. Drag across it to read any single hour, and tap any figure to see where it came from. Your recorded workouts appear on the chart too, as a soft tinted band across the time they ran - drag across one and its name and time range appear right on the chart. Under the chart a small bar splits the day's energy into resting energy and active energy, and below it your everyday movement and each recorded session are listed - together they make up the movement figure. If your phone knows your active energy but not your resting energy - common on Android, where many apps write only the calories you burned moving - the card still shows the active figure and its breakdown; the whole-day total and the resting/active bar are left out, because without the resting half neither would be true.
• Resting heart rate and VO2max - one reading a day, worked out by your watch. Both need a wrist device, and VO2max is only measured on qualifying outdoor walks and runs, so it arrives every few days rather than every day.
• Sleep - how long you actually slept, filed under the morning you woke up on. It answers the Sleep habit for you: reach your goal and the habit ticks itself off. We count time asleep, not time in bed, and a night we have no data for is left for you to mark rather than counted as missed. The night shows as its own card at the top of the Workouts tab, above the day's activity summary - the night's duration, a short quality label, the sleep window and a sleep score out of 100. Tap it and you get the full picture: the span from bedtime to waking up, a timeline of the night showing when each sleep stage occurred, and a short plain-language meaning under each stage. The score compares the night to your sleep goal - 8 hours, unless you set your own on the Sleep habit - and also considers how unbroken and how regular your sleep was; it is worked out on your phone, and wearing a watch to bed gives it the stage readings it needs. A night without stage data shows just the time, with no score.

Before your phone asks for access, hi.fitness shows one short screen explaining what it needs. Read it and tap Continue, then turn on all categories on the phone's own screen - each category has a switch of its own, and a category left off stays empty in the app.

The first time you switch it on we bring in the last 90 days. After that it updates by itself: on iPhone a new workout usually arrives shortly after your watch syncs it, even if the app is closed. On Android it updates when you open hi.fitness or pull down to refresh.

Sending workouts out

Switch on Save workouts and every session you finish in hi.fitness is written to your phone's health app. It counts toward your Apple Watch activity rings and shows up anywhere else that reads your health data.

If you delete a workout in hi.fitness, the copy is removed too.

A walk, a run or a ride at a glance

Open the Workouts tab and pick a day. An activity that covers ground gets a card of its own: the hours it ran, where the data came from, and six figures.

Time, distance and calories on the top row. Underneath, what makes it that activity: average speed - or average pace for a run - average heart rate and ascent.

If your phone or watch did not measure one of them, the card keeps its place and says No data rather than hiding it: the activity happened, so a gap is worth knowing about. A figure the activity cannot have is not listed at all - a pool swim has no ascent, so it shows five rather than six.

A run reads in minutes per kilometre, a walk and a ride in kilometres per hour - whichever way you would say it out loud. Kilometres or miles follows the units in your account settings.

Maps for runs and walks

When your phone recorded where you went, hi.fitness draws it under the figures, with a marker where you set off and where you finished.

Only outdoor activities have one: a treadmill run, a pool swim and a gym session have nothing to draw, so no map appears.

On Android, routes need their own permission. If your activities show up but the maps do not, open Health Connect → hi.fitness and allow exercise routes - Android asks for that separately from the workouts themselves.

Inside a run

Tap the expand button in the map's bottom-right corner and the activity opens full screen, with everything your phone measured underneath it. The map itself is a picture, so a finger resting on it or a scroll that starts there never takes you anywhere.

• The line is coloured by pace. The strip above the chart tells you which pace each end of the scale stands for.
• Splits - every kilometre (or mile) with its pace, the climb across it and your average heart rate.
• Pace and heart rate over the distance. Drag your finger across the chart and a pin follows along the map, so you can see exactly where you sped up.
• Best efforts - your fastest unbroken 1 km, mile, 5 km and 10 km inside that run, wherever they happened to fall.
• Elevation - the shape of the climb from start to finish.

Standing still does not count against you: a wait at a crossing is left out of your moving time and out of the split it happened in.

Splits and best efforts are for activities on foot - running, walking, hiking. A ride still gets the coloured line and the charts.

Kilometres or miles follows the units in your account settings, and the splits change with it.

Seeing it on the web

Everything is in your web history too, not just on the phone. Open Analysis and imported activity sits in the same list as the sessions you tracked here, newest first, each one labelled with where it came from.

Click a run or a walk and you get exactly what your phone measured - duration, distance, calories, average and maximum heart rate. Those figures are read-only: the device recorded them, so hi.fitness shows them as measured rather than letting them be edited.

If you train with a coach, they see the same list on your profile.

Duplicates are handled for you

If you track a gym session in hi.fitness while wearing a watch, both apps end up with a record of it. hi.fitness recognises that they are the same workout and keeps one entry - the one you tracked - and fills in the calories and heart rate your watch measured. You will not see the same session twice.

Calories: two different numbers

The calories on a workout are what that session burned. The calories on the day row are your whole day - walking, stairs, everything - as measured by your phone or watch. The second number is not the sum of your workouts, and hi.fitness never treats it as one.

When something does not arrive

On iPhone the permission screen lists every category with its own switch, and one switch at the top that turns them all on. Switch a couple on by hand and the rest stay off - which looks like everything is connected, and is not. hi.fitness now checks right after that screen, and again whenever you switch importing on or add the Steps or Sleep habit. If it cannot see your steps, or may not save workouts, it says so: Not everything is switched on, with the way to fix it.

You also meet it where the data is missing: the Steps habit card says Steps are not arriving from Apple Health instead of showing zero, the Activity statistics screen offers Fix, and More → Settings → Apple Health shows the same line with a Fix button - that is the place to come back to at any time.

• iPhone: tap Open Health. An iPhone never shows its permission screen a second time, so this is the only way back. In the Health app, tap your profile picture in the top corner, then under Privacy tap Apps, then hi.fitness, and turn on all categories. When you return to hi.fitness it checks again and imports the last 90 days by itself.
• Android: tap Grant missing permissions. Health Connect asks again for exactly what is missing. If you cancelled its screen twice, Android stops showing it; hi.fitness then opens Health Connect's settings instead, where App permissions → hi.fitness lets you allow everything.

If steps still do not arrive on iPhone, check in the phone's settings that fitness tracking is on - the phone counts steps only with it.

Good to know

• Everything stays between your phone and your hi.fitness account. We never share your health data.
• You can turn either direction off at any time, and nothing already imported is deleted.
• Say no on the permission screen and the Import switch still moves - but nothing arrives, and hi.fitness tells you straight away; the Save workouts switch waits until saving is allowed. Fix takes you to the right place.
• VO2max has a permission of its own, so your phone may ask for it separately - saying no there costs you only that one reading, and everything else keeps syncing.
• Apple Health is only on iPhone; Android uses Health Connect, which may need installing from the Play Store on older phones.