Health app counting steps.

Thanks. I had checked motion calibration was in but I hadn’t taken the watch out for a walk to help calibrate it yet. Will do that over the next few days and hopefully watch and iPhone steps will start to get a big closer.

Any idea why Health app keeps reverting to watch as priority data source? I keep moving iPhone to top but it doesn’t seem to stay there.

Thanks again. What you say makes sense, although not quite sure why it’s set up like that. iPhone seems just as capable of measuring exercise so can’t see why I couldn’t be given option to decide which source to use

Thanks for continuing to reply in what I’m sure feels like a trivial matter, but I’m just a little frustrated with the fact that the watch and phone measure steps differently.

I can see that the watch is tracking my workouts, but I also use the Health app to track the total number of steps I take each day over a longer period of time and it now seems like I’m going to have to get used to the number being much lower

I’m used to averaging approx 18k steps a day according to the Health app on my phone, but now that I’ve paired my watch, the number is likely to be a lot less - I’m basing this solely on 3 days activity where my phone says I’ve averaged 17k but my watch says 14.5k despite me always having both on me at all times.

Just seems strange that Apple would have different measurements on 2 devices

am sure I will get used to it over time but in the short term it’s disappointing