Strava overruling Apple Watch data

Over the past weeks, I've been using various third-party apps to track activitity via my Apple Watch and noticed various bugs, most notably with Strava.

It seems that once I finish a workout on the Strava-app on the Apple Watch, this Strava workout data overrules Apple Watch's own data tracking during that period.

To give an example: I will bike to work and at the end of my bike ride (before I finish my Strava-session), Apple Watch will show the Move-ring up to 900 calories. When I then finish the Strava-workout, all of a sudden the ring gets decreased to around 600 calories, which is what the Strava-workout indicates as calories burned for the bike ride.


I know in Apple Health you can order the data sources - so now in Apple Health I have Apple Watch data for Active Energy which shows a higher amount than the Move-ring is showing.


I've noticed something similar with exercise time, where the Watch will track exercise minutes (according to the definition "a brisk walk or more intense") during the Strava-session, but once the Strava-session is saved, it takes the start-end time (incl. moments you've paused that session) of the session as total exercise time. I had this for example during a day of skiing, where obviously there are moments you are having lunch or on a ski lift, so definitely not exercising, but once I stop the Strava-session at the end of the day, I have 6h of exercise minutes.


Does anyone else experience this problem? Is there any way to rank data sources on the Apple Watch itself?

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Posted on Feb 21, 2019 6:15 AM

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Feb 21, 2019 7:32 AM in response to seanfromllanelli

Hi, thanks for that, however, I have the opposite problem: if I look in Apple Health, my "Active Energy" is higher than my Move-ring. The "Active Energy" takes the data from the Apple Watch-sensors, while Activity takes the data from Strava. For me, I would think that Apple Watch-sensors are more accurate than the calculations of Strava. So what I want to see on Activity (& Move-ring) is also what the Watch measures and not what Strava calculates...

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