Viewing steps in Health app from past days/weeks, etc.

Hello. I also had this question. I searched within the Health App and could not find out how to do this. I searched now, after downloading 9.0, that If I follow these steps I can see historical data.

I hope this helps! 🙂

1.Open Health App

2. Press health Data Tab

3. Fitness

4. Steps

5. Show all Data

Hi David,

I also find the Apple Health app frustrating. I can only see the acurate data for the day. If I go to the Week, Month or Day view I can see the graph representing my previous days, but not the actually data. For example, Aug 21 is shown on my Week view as a datapoint, but I can't get the exact number of steps.

I do have MyFitnessPal, and going into my diary for the day I'm curious about I can see how many steps I took. But as the iPhone (5s) is pushing the steps data to MyFitnessPal (which is often slow to load and a bit cumbersome) is seems bizarre that I can't get the info from the Apple Health app.

I hope Apple changes this in future releases. For now, I need to use a 3rd party app to view the iPhone data in a format that is meaningful to me. Maybe Human will let you see the data in a way that is relevant to you.

Good luck!

I have had the same problem looking at history. I have played around and found by clicking on the steps, then the clock symbol top right you will get history. Slide the graph left and right to view history. I hope this helps you all.

You can find this info in the activity app on the iphone. calories, steps, distance, etc. for previous days.

What is the purpose of the day, week, month... categories if they only record for 1 day?

HHello everybody.

if you want to know yesterday's steps all you need to do is go to settings, date and time, change the date to yesterday, go back to health kit and VOILA !

i actually came to this forum to find a solution myself, and worked it out ahah so hope this helps !!

BYe!

Mine shows the same number of steps for the day, the week, the month and the year, and every day it starts over. Maybe I"m missing something but I would expect it to show total steps for the week, total steps for the month, etc.

Hmm. So I should not believe what I see on my screen.

David Moore3 wrote:

What is the purpose of the day, week, month...

To view stuff over a day, a week, a month...

if they only record for 1 day?

Uh, they don't "only record for a day".

Health data is updated whenever it updates, either by itself or thru an app.

As I previously stated, they don't only record for one day.

The Health app records data all the time. It is not a one time action.

Day Week Month shows what was recorded over the last day/week/month.

If it displays No Data, then you do not use an app that writes data into the Health app.

iPhone 5S and later will record steps so there should be something in there without any other app.

If you use MyFItnessPal or other apps for tracking calorie intake fat, fiber, sodium, carbs, protein, etc will have data to display.

In the Health app, tap Sources at bottom to see which apps you have that can read/write data to the Health app,

Marco Dumenil wrote:

if you want to know yesterday's steps all you need to do is go to settings, date and time, change the date to yesterday, go back to health kit and VOILA !

i actually came to this forum to find a solution myself, and worked it out ahah so hope this helps !!

Or, you could get one of the many, many apps (I like Moves) that displays the data in different ways.

Use an app that displays this info.

Health app is not designed to do what you want. It is basically a repository for other apps to share & exchange data.

MyFitnessPal will do it.

techmom12 wrote:

You can find this info in the activity app on the iphone

Only if you pair an Apple Watch with your iPhone.

David Moore3 wrote:

Hmm. So I should not believe what I see on my screen.

Why wouldn’t you believe what you see on your screen? (whatever that is).

You could post an actual question/statement..

What is the purpose of the day, week, month... categories if they only record for 1 day?