how to download fitness data from iphone?
Is there anyway to download fitness data from the iphone Activity app? I would like to get collect my run data from my iPhone. I have been using an Apple Watch on all my runs.
iPhone 8 Plus
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Hi PsyDye,
The 2nd link helped and got me 50% of the way there, but there's still a problem. I just want a simple miles per run along with the date and time.
Instead, I was only able to get a file called HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning.csv but it records the distance every second. So to find out how far I ran, I would have to add up all the distances for all the seconds during the run. It's surprising that apple doesn't make run data more easily available to users.
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For anyone interested, here is what I went through to get to the health files!
I exported health data from the iphone Health app using these steps
- In the Health app on the iphone, I tapped my profile picture at the top right.
- Tap Export all health data
- it took my iphone 5 minutes to bring up an export dialog box
- This created an 68MB export.zip file which I airdropped to my mac.
- Unzipping the export file created an apple_health_export folder
- The export.xml file was 904 MB
- it could not be opened by excel, word, or xcode
- Eric Wolter's webpage took about 5 mins to convert the export.xml file to a myriad of csv files including
- HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning.csv
- which I can't use as is 😢😢
