iPhone Health App Activity refresh is delayed

I have the same problem. Apple Health APP does not update Steps and Miles real time anymore.

I met "The Genius" at apple store and I was told Apple had stopped this feature of real time updates.

This App is very important to me and I really wish apple did not stop this feature.

I have talked to all my colleagues at work and they all feel the same way ??

I asked " The Genius " as to why this change was initiated ..............there was Radio silence!

I guess it may be a means to promote the Watch sales!!

Either way ... This is Not Fair that they took away this feature.

I believe I’ve worked out a clunky way of getting more up to date step counts:

1. Use the app just on the step section.
2. Double press the home button
3. Swipe up to close,
4. When you reopen the app go back to the step section it will give you an updated step count.

Not ideal but better than waiting 10 minutes for an update. Works for me, hopefully will work for you.

Hi schakro,

We understand you're experiencing issues being able to get updates about your workouts in real time. First, we'd recommend completing some basic troubleshooting first below:

Update your Apple Watch

Restart your iPhone

How to restart your Apple Watch

Let us know if this helps improves your issue. Cheers.

Thanks scharko for filing an enhancement. I did the same enhancement request.

I found a very ugly work-around:

In health app, click on the person icon in upper right

Select Devices

Select your device

Select Walking and running (you'll see a bunch of data points)

Go back

Select Walking and running again (you should see new data point(s))

Go back

Repeat for Steps, Flights Climbed, etc.

I found this procedure forces a refresh

Interesting that they have gone backward in functionality?!? I liked my iOS14.08 just fine, which did do very close to real time step counts.

Hi schakro,

Thanks for the additional information. If you haven't already, we'd also recommend quitting the Health app and reopening it to see if there's still a delay.

For reference: Quit and reopen an app on iPhone

If the issue persists, we'd recommend reaching out to Apple Support next. You may reach them directly from Get Support.

Take care.

Right 15.1 I updated to 15.1 2 days ago. Data refresh is still a bit slow, but similar to pre-iOS 15. If I work with another app (like check mail), it seems to force a refresh. Just weird that we know the data is there, but the app refresh is so slow, inconsistent. I’m sure Apple has a reason (like you indicated in an earlier post), but it doesn’t make sense to me.

I started having the same problem after updating to iOS 15.3. talked to Apple Support. They gave the same party line how it’s not supposed to update on real-time. Of course the tech ignored my comments that it was updating much more rapidly previously. He gave the same suggestion- get a wearable or a device made for tracking steps, etc in real time.

I agree that this is most likely a marketing ploy to increase iwatch sales.

It’s really unfortunate apple and these technology companies do this. Instead of focusing on making everything a complete upgrade and focus to improve the consumer experience ABOVE ALL ELSE, they want to upgraded just enough to increase phone sales and other products. But they would increase their phone sales with those laggards (like myself) who are skeptical and hesitant to upgrade for reasons like this. I take the “if ain’t broken don’t fix it” approach to buying a new phone because of crap they pull like this.

APPLE, Just focus on improving consumer experience 💯‼️

The problem has started after updating to latest ios version. As seen from the discussions it has been deliberately done to promote Apple Watch sales. It is unethical. I have been using Apple products for quite some time. Now I feel like stop using Apple products.