Health - how to see previous days' walking running distance?

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Level 2

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Health - how to see previous days' walking running distance?

In the Health app, I can see the "Walking + Running Distance" for the day, week, month, or year. If I go to the week, month, or year views, it shows a graph. If I go to the day view, it shows how many miles you've walked/run that day. For example, "6.2 mi - Today". How do I see that number for the previous day(s)? With the graphs in the week, month, or year views, I have to guesstimate. And as far as I can tell, this is no option in any of the views to look at previous time periods.

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8

Posted on Oct 1, 2014 1:36 AM

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Answer 1

maria41

Level 1

8 points

Apr 29, 2015 6:27 PM in response to 34x

I understand mrbofus' point. What we are trying to figure out is not the number of steps at any given moment but if the app can give us the walking + running distance as a total for the previous days. I want to be able to look on the week and pick a day of the week and for the phone to tell me how many steps I walked/ran that day. Can we get an update for that, please and thank you.

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braden85

Community Specialist

Oct 3, 2014 1:10 PM in response to mrbofus

Hi mrbofus,

I have an article for you that seems to describe your issue and can help you troubleshoot:

If your Health data doesn't update

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6446?

Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!

Regards,

Braden

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34x

Level 1

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Oct 4, 2014 1:13 AM in response to mrbofus

You can see the previous day data if you tap (in step dashboard) on week tab, but no values only top points by days and after tapping on graph you can see all logged data but unfortunately without the day summary. I hope Apple will add something like swipe on dashboard for changing time intervals in the nearest future.

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mrbofus Author

Level 2

257 points

Oct 3, 2014 11:16 PM in response to braden85

@braden85, thank you for the suggestion, but that's not the problem I'm having. Health is tracking all the steps.

The problem I'm having is that the graph only shows the the exact total for the current day, but not for the previous days.

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mrbofus Author

Level 2

257 points

Apr 29, 2015 8:19 PM in response to maria41

maria41 wrote:

I understand mrbofus' point. What we are trying to figure out is not the number of steps at any given moment but if the app can give us the walking + running distance as a total for the previous days. I want to be able to look on the week and pick a day of the week and for the phone to tell me how many steps I walked/ran that day. Can we get an update for that, please and thank you.

Yeah, it seems weird that it will show you the total steps for the current day but not the previous days. Not sure if they expect you to add up hundreds of data points or if they just didn't think people would want to know. Although neither of those really make sense either; the first is obvious, and for the second, if people want to know for the current day, why wouldn't they want to know for any previous days?

Hopefully Apple will fix this soon. The app obviously has all the data, it just needs to show us the total.

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Answer 6

Jul 18, 2015 7:14 AM in response to mrbofus

The most annoying part was finding this post and realizing there is no solution and that browsing historical data (in summary form) does not exist in the health app. Thankfully Ive been running other fitness related apps and could access this basic feature through them.

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Answer 7

Aug 19, 2015 2:26 PM in response to mrbofus

I had this same issue as I needed to know steps taken on previous days to log them for a thing I have to do for my health insurance through work. I have the Pacer app installed, and that app allows it. Just turn the phone sideways, and drag your finger to the day on the graph.

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