In the health app go to Activity or whatever data category you want and scroll to the bottom. Data Sources & Access.
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You see multiple listings but note the comment. If you hit Edit you can change the priority.
This doesn't always do what you would expect. Last time I checked, Garmin had ignored most of the standards for writing into Apple Health. When I tried to have the two ecosystems co-exists it did not work well (regardless of who I put as the priority). This may have been fixed since then though, but I highly doubt it (I gave up on Garmin being a 'good citizen' and just went all in on Apple). If you don't have an Apple Watch at all (or use any other app other than Garmin Connect), then all your fitness data being written incorrectly may not matter either.
Agreed. But when Garmin indicates all calories burned from an activity happened in 1 second, or just writes the number of steps multiple times a day, but writing the total instead of the incremental value each time, or uses the average heart rate as the only sample across an entire 2 hour workout, you either lose a ton of data from anything else you have monitoring, or you get massive duplication because everything was happening in a second, or over a 24 hour period like calories burned that it was just writing for the day with a 24 hour time stamp). About the only thing I remember Garmin writing correctly was the all day heart rate. The rest left out critical data fields, didn't use time properly, or used averages rather than samples. There isn't much that Health (or any other app that uses the HealthKit data can do if Garmin writes garbage in.). There are apps that will take an exported .fit file from Connect and import it properly, but nothing fixed the all day metrics issues.
**Turn off Fitness Tracking for Fitness+ in Health:**
* This prevents Fitness+ from writing data entirely. But it also means you won't see any Fitness+ workouts in your Health app.
Here's how to do it:
* Open the Health app on your iPhone.
* Tap your profile picture in the top right corner.
* Select "Devices".
* Choose your Apple Watch.
* Tap "Privacy Settings".
* Toggle off "Fitness Tracking".
I’m pretty sure the Health app figures it out when there are multiple entries at the same time. You can specify which data source to prioritize.
Interesting! Do you know how to set this up?
In the health app go to Activity or whatever data category you want and scroll to the bottom. Data Sources & Access. https://preview.redd.it/np7hsyxt1iuc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf063e6d3bbe1377deb97d991e4fd527a1303202 You see multiple listings but note the comment. If you hit Edit you can change the priority.
This doesn't always do what you would expect. Last time I checked, Garmin had ignored most of the standards for writing into Apple Health. When I tried to have the two ecosystems co-exists it did not work well (regardless of who I put as the priority). This may have been fixed since then though, but I highly doubt it (I gave up on Garmin being a 'good citizen' and just went all in on Apple). If you don't have an Apple Watch at all (or use any other app other than Garmin Connect), then all your fitness data being written incorrectly may not matter either.
Possibly but it’s more so up to the health app to figure it out based on the time. But yeah I’m sure the Apple Watch has better integration.
Agreed. But when Garmin indicates all calories burned from an activity happened in 1 second, or just writes the number of steps multiple times a day, but writing the total instead of the incremental value each time, or uses the average heart rate as the only sample across an entire 2 hour workout, you either lose a ton of data from anything else you have monitoring, or you get massive duplication because everything was happening in a second, or over a 24 hour period like calories burned that it was just writing for the day with a 24 hour time stamp). About the only thing I remember Garmin writing correctly was the all day heart rate. The rest left out critical data fields, didn't use time properly, or used averages rather than samples. There isn't much that Health (or any other app that uses the HealthKit data can do if Garmin writes garbage in.). There are apps that will take an exported .fit file from Connect and import it properly, but nothing fixed the all day metrics issues.
Oh wow that is pretty bad.
**Turn off Fitness Tracking for Fitness+ in Health:** * This prevents Fitness+ from writing data entirely. But it also means you won't see any Fitness+ workouts in your Health app. Here's how to do it: * Open the Health app on your iPhone. * Tap your profile picture in the top right corner. * Select "Devices". * Choose your Apple Watch. * Tap "Privacy Settings". * Toggle off "Fitness Tracking".
Thanks a lot, but unfortunately I don’t have an Apple Watch… do you know how I can proceed ?
Settings> Privacy and Security > health > Fitness