Deleting Some, But Not All Data from Health App

balithai wrote:

Is there a way to do that without having to go into "Show All Data" and delete them day by day? And is there a setting where you can automatically have it delete data after a set time-period (like you can do for deleting emails)?

No and no.

The data takes up very little space so, if that's why you're considering deleting it, it's not worth the effort.

Hey there balithai,

In order to delete specific data instead of all data, use the steps below:

1. "Open the Health app and tap the Browse tab. 
2. Tap a category, like Activity. 
3. Tap a subcategory, like Steps.
4. Tap Show All Data, then tap Edit in the upper-right corner.
5. Tap the Delete button next to the record you want to delete. You can also tap Delete All to delete every record."

For more details and guidance with the Health app and its data, check out this link: Manage Health data on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch

Take care!

I understand.

You should let Apple know what you'd like to see here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Meanwhile, if you export the data to something like Excel or Numbers, you should be able to delete the older data without huge amounts of work.

It's been a really long time since I exported any data. I just tried using QS Access, an app I've had good luck with before. It allows you to select all the Healthkit samples and creates a .csv. I'm not sure why the author of the article you linked to couldn't get all the samples in that app.

It's possible I was misreading my data but it looked pretty comprehensive.

Best of luck.