Q: Health app not retaining Add Steps data
I'm looking forward to using the Apple Watch to track my activity when I get it. In the meantime, I've been manually entering my step activity in the Health app manually. Unfortunately, more often than not, even if it seems to initially accept the Add Data entry, after a few hours it usually stops including the manual entry in the total displayed for the day, even though pouring back through the data shows the manual entry is still there.
I've tried deleting the manual entry and re-entering it with a different time to see if that matters, but it generally doesn't help. It's unreliable enough for me to forego manually adding data entries for my elliptical step data, for now. Unless someone can explain/sleuth out the logic necessary for the data to be accepted as legitimate and incorporated into the daily step total.
Any ideas?
iPhone 6, iOS 8.1.1
Posted on Nov 28, 2014 4:22 PM
I updated to iOS 8.2 today in preparation for the Watch release, and it included an update to the Health app which appears to have solved this "manual data entry not rolling into graphical display" issue. I'm going to consider this issue resolved, unless it pops up again.
Posted on Mar 9, 2015 8:11 PM