MyFitnessPal not syncing with Apple Health app

Hey guess what my boyfriend figured it out!!! Go to the newsfeed option at the bottom and swipe down to refresh it and the next time you do a work out it should reappear!!! It worked for me ! Hope it works for you!!

Hey, the exact same thing happened to me. Nothing has transferred over to MyFitness PAL since the new update! I have an 11iphone with the lastest IOS but it isn't working ... SUPER frusterating .. hopefully they can help us come up with a solution. It isn't Apply, I believe .. it is coming from the new version of the My Fitness PAL. It will not sync to the "Health" app as the workouts are logging on the "Health" app as I can see them in settings from the app.

Hello jwesleyt,

It looks like you have already taken some great troubleshooting steps.

We would suggest that you work through each step outlined here: Manage Health data on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch - Apple Support

Pay particular attention to the steps under, "Add information from other apps".

If you continue to have an issue, after confirming everything from that article, we would suggest reaching out to the app developer for assistance. Here might be a good place to start: MyFitnessPal Help

Have a good day.

Yaaaay!! Love that! I will for sure. When I think about the older version of the app we always used to update the calories under the “newsfeed” anyways.. so I think that was the confusion with the update! Glad we could help! 🥳

I believe like the other issue of voice feedback not working unless you do everything from your watch (start workout from watch, listen to music that is ON your watch), this issue will be ignored by Apple as they will claim it's nothing but user error. I am sadly in the same boat as yourself where MyFitnessPal will only see the steps I take measured by my phone, but will not recognize any workouts. I've uninstalled, re-installed, unlinked, re-linked my accounts, removed permissions and re-added them and nothing.

I have a question about this. I didn’t refresh my MFP newsfeed on the day I performed the exercise. Yesterday I swam and didn’t refresh though I did use the MFP app. Today I looked for yesterdays swim and it is not there. Does that mean past workouts will not show up unless you refresh on the day of the workout? I tried refreshing today and the swim is not there. Why does this have to be so complicated?

You are correct! It has to be refreshed on the day of! I have tried what you did and it didn’t work. Even if you “refresh” on the feed and it doesn’t show on the feed go to “diary” and it will show there.

I’m not sure why the developers didn’t test this when they added the new option of “diary” but .. anywhoooo. Sorry your workout if lost! It’s super frustrating!

Wish I would’ve found this feed earlier… Before deleting, reinstalling My Fitness Pal, unpairing my watch, looking up how to get My Fitness Pal yo read my watch and most irritating and frustrating of all- managing to delete over a years worth of info on the Activity app!! 😡Can’t wait to try it next time I workout.

Whilst all of the reply’s are helpful, at best the refreshing of the newsfeed is a workaround and not a fix. I sometimes find even by refreshing MFP on the day that it doesn’t pull data across from Apple Health. This needs a proper fix and I expect the fundamentals of this to be data automatically flows from Apple Health to MFP.

100% def needs a proper fix however none of us ( I believe) work for MFP or Apple so we can’t properly fix the issue. I’m hopefully if enough of us complain to MFP then it will be properly changed! :)

The past few days have been terrible for MFP, workouts only appear "sometimes" and the Apple Watch adjustment calories seem to be incorrect now as well. Not sure what they've done recently but it's got even worse, the newsfeed trick doesn't work the same as it used to - you can refresh the newsfeed and still nothing appears even after trying it countless times.

This is disgraceful from MFP, do they not have a UX team?! They should be embarrassed for releasing a version of an app that doesn't even seem like it is in the beta stages...

Same thing happened to me. I have confirmed all my settings are correct. I did find My Fitness Pal will update if I leave app open then open the Apple Health app after. Only works in this order. Will only update once so then you have to close both apps then open again in the order above. Not optimal but until My Fitness Pal or Apple Health fix the issue we seem to be stuck with it. If anyone has a fix since this was posted please let me know.

thanks

Good morning, I did a MFP update last night and my data pulled through this morning for the first time in months without any manual intervention. I really hope this means the long standing issue is resolved!!

I've asked the same question in the MFP Community pages and haven't had a reply yet.

I'm having the same problem with my new apple watch SE just purchased last week and iPhone 8 running IOS 16.

Syncing workouts works fine. Syncing steps doesn't work. I can see the steps in my Activity App on the phone and watch, and in the Health app on my phone (I don't see a Health app on the watch).

MFP keeps asking me to "connect to track steps." But it shows me exercise calories and time based on Apple Health App Workouts. I don't know why the exercise functionality doesn't ask for a "conection."

Any suggestions in this forum? (the Newsfeed/swipe down action in MFP discussed above doesn't do anything for me)