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Exporting or Viewing Apple Watch heart rate info

On the main screen for health data there is an icon in the upper right (mine is a red silhouette of a person). If you press this icon the next screen gives an option to export data. It is easy to ...
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Does using a standing desk "count" when using the Apple Watch to close rings?

The activity rings have evolved with each watchOS release. The key is “stand and move” or “roll”. The accelerometers and pulse measurements in the hardware are extremely precise and I find accurate as ...
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How does HealthKit calculate activeEnergyBurned and other variables?

Apple doesn't disclose the algorithms is uses to calculate these so you're going to need to reverse engineer it or hopefully find someone else who has reverse engineered it. What is publicly known is ...
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How can i get Apple HealthKit data if iphone is crashed or permanently dead?

As with any computer: If you want to be sure your data survives crashes, device losses etc, make a backup (or ideally several).
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How do I view the lifetime total from the Health app?

disclaimer: I recently released a new app that displays your (lifetime) Apple Health and workouts data. The app is called “Health Stats”. Health Stats is a free app (with a one-time premium in-app ...
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How do I get to medications in Health.app?

Access to the feature is more subtle now. Launch Health.app Tap 'Summary' Tap your profile picture Tap 'Medical ID' Tap 'Edit' Source
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How do I get to medications in Health.app?

It would seem that medication tracking was moved into CareKit from HealthKit. "you’ll be able to regularly track your symptoms and medications" CareKit Site at Apple And at the HealthKit Site, the ...
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How can I import external data into HealthKit?

You can also use the built in iOS shortcuts app. Here's a template that allows you to pick a csv file from iCloud. Right now, it's set up to use a CSV where the first column is the Date and then the ...
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How can I import external data into HealthKit?

Lionheart Software actually just released an app called Health CSV Importer that does exactly this. Essentially, it takes pretty much any CSV you could throw at it, and pulls it into Apple Health. ...
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How can I add my vaccination record to Apple Health on iOS?

This is not available to EU users yet, even to manually add the info. According to Macrumors, this feature is currently in the iOS 15.4 beta. When iOS 15.4 is released, users will be able to add a ...
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In which countries are iPhone health records available?

Today, apple lists three countries for health records on iOS. Canada United Kingdom United States https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/
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iOS - How can I get my HealthKit data on two devices?

Yes: Sign in to iCloud on both devices, and enable the Health setting. Health syncing may not occur immediately. Allow both devices to stay plugged in overnight connected to Wi-Fi.
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How do I get HR data on my Watch to my iPhone?

Like backups, Heath data should sync automatically when your watch is paired to your phone and they both can connect to wifi. I would take the watch and phone to a different wifi and possibly reset ...
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How does my brand new iPhone have steps activity recorded on it (in the Health app) from a month ago?

This sound like a case of a product return - a customer who purchased it and returned it. Now, you state that you purchased it as “Brand New” so Apple, of all entities, shouldn’t be repackaging ...
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How do I measure Heart Rate Variability?

Looking at the history of HRV measurements in my Health app, they seem to correspond to times I've used the Breathe app on my phone. It seems that doing a Breathe session will do an on-demand ...
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Apple Watch activity too high

You should be able to delete the data relating to this via the Health app on your iPhone. More specifically: On your iPhone open the Health app Tap on the Sources icon at bottom At the bottom of the ...
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Can new Health-app fields be created by 3rd parties?

Neither you nor third-party developers can add fields to Health. Working with the HealthKit Framework The HealthKit framework is designed to share data between apps in a meaningful way. The framework ...
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Meditation timer that reports mindful minutes to the Health app?

After many months of trying different apps, the one that best addresses what I need is Timeless. Sattva does not log meditation time when you meditate on the watch. Timeless does, though you have to ...
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