Syncing the Iphone health app with MFP

rcrough
rcrough Posts: 23 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I've tried to sync the Health app on my Iphone to MFP. It seems to counts my steps but doesn't really adjust the calorie goal correctly. Does anyone use this?

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  • GrumpyHeadmistress
    GrumpyHeadmistress Posts: 666 Member
    I use my Apple Watch as a HRM which feeds into Apple health kit. I think there's a problem with the steps tracker at the moment as mine records the steps but doesn't allocate me any calories.
  • occamsrazorben
    occamsrazorben Posts: 2 Member
    I have similar issue. Sorry I can't help but will be interested to learn.
  • Ladiebug710
    Ladiebug710 Posts: 133 Member
    No help to offer but I'm very frustrated too. For example, today I worked out and logged with Strava (which is the only way I can get my Peloton rides into apple HealthKit, so my peloton said 840 calories, Strava said 540something and loaded that to apple. But my active calories for the day say 333! It's like apple ignores the calories all together.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    If you also log a workout, the step count allowance goes away I have noticed. Also when the Apple app posts to my MFP wall it doubles everything, even though the cals added to my diary are correct. People are all "wow nice job"and I'm like yeah no I didn't do that. It seems to be quite buggy.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    Ladiebug710 wrote: »
    No help to offer but I'm very frustrated too. For example, today I worked out and logged with Strava (which is the only way I can get my Peloton rides into apple HealthKit, so my peloton said 840 calories, Strava said 540something and loaded that to apple. But my active calories for the day say 333! It's like apple ignores the calories all together.

    Does Strava actually put a workout into the Activity app? I know there are some apps that can only interact with the Health app and not Activity. I'm quite tech savvy but getting the Health/Activity apps to work with other things is mind bending sometimes.
  • Beardo1020
    Beardo1020 Posts: 1 Member
    Does MyFitnessPal have any kind of support? I've seen no responses from Support to this issue. My MFP was just updated and now I've LOST the steps connection, even though I've allowed access between my iPhone Health App and MFP in both directions.
  • AidanPedreschi
    AidanPedreschi Posts: 1 Member
    Same here. I've haven't had exercise calories adjusted for the last week or so.
  • age_is_just_a_number
    age_is_just_a_number Posts: 631 Member
    I’m assuming you’ve already ensured that you’ve allowed access in you apple health app to allow MFP to read data from it.
    If I add exercise manually to apple health it shows up as exercise in MFP.

    I’ve tried to use apple health as a sort of hub to have other apps sr d data to it and then health feeds mfp. The biggest challenge I have is that many of the other apps don’t send the data to apple health.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    i log my exercise on my watch. it imports that, or the calories, into mfp.

    really, thats all that matters.

    i can look at my watch or the app to see step count. if its above your estimated activity level it will still adjust calories, even without saying ' walked 80 kajillion steps'

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