Health app double counting steps?

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Health app double counting steps?

I have a Withings Pulse activity tracker and it is now synced with my phone and the Withings app to help track my steps throughout the day. I've noticed that the Health app itself tracks my steps in intervals throughout the day and it seems the Withings app only syncs steps at midnight each night. I'm wondering if I'm ultimately getting double-credit for steps every day or if Health somehow is able to cancel out its steps once it sees that steps sync in from another app. I wish there was a way to turn off the internal step counter in iOS8 but I haven't found one yet. Curious if anyone here has been experiencing this with other fitness bands/activity trackers?

David

iPhone 6, iOS 8

Posted on Oct 10, 2014 8:55 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 6, 2014 8:28 AM in response to SoonerDavid

I am having the same issue as well. I don't have any activity tracker but I keep my phone on me at all times and use it as a tracker. It seems that withings app keeps track of the steps and so does the phone on its own.. If you allow withings app to to sync with health app to me it seems health app uses info from whatever iphone tracks than adds data from withings on top of it.. For examples woke up today and after hour or two withings app said I did about 330 steps. Which would make sense. However in the health app it's showing 670..... why allow other apps to use steps feature if you can't disable iPhone steps tracking, since it will only double up steps?. God forbid I give another app access to step counting. It will seem like I ran a marathon yet I nearly got off the sofa.

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Answer 2

Nov 14, 2014 11:57 AM in response to Darko Ibrahimpasic1

Exactly....

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