iPhone 6 with Health App / Cycling tracking broken?

Fixar Frazze wrote:

OK i see now that my reply is missing some essential info. I meant to say: Apple Care says that in order to record cycle data in health kit (automatically) one has to use a third party app.

That should not be the case if you have an iPhone 6 or later.

Well I specifically asked about my iPhone 6s. Do you personally know of anyone that has an iPhone 6 (or later) that is able to recognize when you are biking without third party app?

Fixar Frazze wrote:

Well I specifically asked about my iPhone 6s. Do you personally know of anyone that has an iPhone 6 (or later) that is able to recognize when you are biking without third party app?

No, just going by my understanding of how it's supposed to work. For a variety of other reasons, I use a third party app and I don't bother looking at Health for that. I primarily use Health as a conduit for syncing from on thing to another anyway.

So, I'm using Strava to import data to the health app and it works fine. However, for every 20 miles I ride, I log 5 miles of walking too! This is a real design flaw and the only way I see to prevent this is to turn off waking in the app, take a ride, then turn walking back on. Ridiculous.

II'll try putting the phone in my bike bag & see If I can minimize the erroneous walking data.

ALso, it looks like apps interfaced with Health Kit do not upload data in real time. In Strava, when I save my ride, I see a message indicating the data is being synchronized.

MY 6+ can't tell the difference either

Hey guys, I have a question related to this thread that I could not find an answer to anywhere on the Web. I assume I'm just an idiot for that because it's a really basic thing.

So the iOS Health app doesn't track cycling - ok, I can live with that. But: is there a third-party app to do that that would not require you to press 'start' and whenever you're about to get on the bike and 'stop' when you are done? I tries Cyclometer and Strava but neither seems to be able to track cycling automatically, without you pressing buttons all the time. It kind of kills the whole point to me. I know that Human tries to do that, but it's miserably inaccurate. I do around 10 miles of cycling daily, and I tend to go pretty fast, but it likes to think that I'm walking 90% of that time. I'm not asking for 100% accuracy, just something more solid. I feel like there must be a simple answer to that 🙂 Any help will be appreciated, thanks!

Sorry, you will have to start and stop the apps like Stravia. The good news is Stravia has an auto-pause function that works well. It won't log idle time.

I didn't make it through every single post... so I may have missed this workaround. The health app allows you to delete "steps" entries. So after my ride, I just go delete the steps recorded during my ride time.

The app "Moves" tracks cycling automatically. Two disadvantages: - it does not store the data in HealthKit. This is a bummer for me. - it uses a lot of battery. This makes sense to me because for cycling tracking you probably need a lot of gps data. Does someone know an app like Moves but with HealthKit support?

This is totally annoying from my point of view.

Of course you can use a third party app while cycling, but the real question here is why Apple counts steps while cycling.

It happens both with the iPhone 6s and the Apple Watch. It is something that should not happen.

Check my other post about this issue here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-increasing-step-count-floors-climbed-while- cycling-murillo?trk=pulse_spock-articles

Apple should fix this, they were a company that cared about details.

Same here no cycling recorded at all

🤔 ..if that’s the case then why isn’t the iOS 11 version of the health app recording cycling data but pointing to a 2nd party app to so? 🤔