Fitness steps differ than health app steps

Is your iPhone also counting steps?

I have mine turned off as I always wear my watch and don't always carry my phone.

iPhone>Settings>Privacy>Motion & Fitness>Fitness Tracking>Toggle off

All steps from the watch go to the health app.

Mine matches daily without a step difference.

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Same problem.

It looks like the health app disregards steps done during walking exercise, or it's doing some weird calculation between the steps registered by the watch and on the phone. The watch is set as prio 1, but then in my world the watch should always have a lower count if the numbers are not equal.

As I write this, I have 4876 steps registered on my watch, 4876 registered in fitness app on phone. The health app however is counting 2885 steps.

You can manually input steps into health app(add data, top right corner when you see the graph. Be sure to add steps on a time where no other steps are recorded, like early morning or late evening) , but I'm unsure if that will make your insurance people happy?

I have exactly the same issue, following recent updates. It used to be fine before. I am also now missing out financially because the step count that my Health insurance company uses to reward me is the one from the Health App.

I, also, have this issue and Apple does not seem to be addressing it. I feel like the only thing I can do is try to reset the phone, and watch, back to factory default and start from scratch. It would be helpful if Apple actually provided an answer for us. I can’t even contact support even though this problem happened as a result of their IOS upgrade. How can the steps in the Health app not match the watch when it is the first option?

I have the same problem, Apple Watch says 8509, Fitness App on iPhone says 8509, Health App says 3952!! In the Health App, under Data Sources and Access -> Apple Watch I have recorded against my watch only 2169 steps, under Data Sources and Access -> iPhone I have recorded 4009 steps. I expect some of these to be duplicate.

This problem would appear to have arrived with the latest update, to Watch or iOS I am not sure.

I can also report that the histogram of stand hours is missing a few bars on the Fitness and Health App. However it has accounted for my stand hours correctly and the ring is closed.

Would appear to be a bug (undocumented feature?), Apple please fix ASAP.

I have the same problem and it all happened after the last update. I tried everything that is suggested in different sections. I don't know how to solve this problem.

Same problem. My steps are way off between the Apple Activity app on my iphone compared to Apple Health. The Activity app on my watch and iphone match just fine.

I am having the same problem. I’ve now unpaired my watch 3 times and lost previous data and still the health app showing far less steps. It’s also not recognising stand hours.