Nike Running with Heart Rate and GPS

Hi

The Nike+ Running app does not presently offer support for accessing the heart rate sensor on Apple Watch. To monitor heart rate via that app, you can instead link any Bluetooth 4.0 Smart heart rate transmitter to the app.

More information and instructions: https://support-en-us.nikeplus.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/55252

Apple Watch does not have a built-in GPS feature. Your route can instead be recorded using the built-in GPS / Location Services feature on your iPhone.

More information: http://support-en-us.nikeplus.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/47050/

Nike+ Running on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nike+-running/id387771637?mt=8

Pottsy66, THANK YOU!!! I have been scouring the internet looking for information on this. The first time I used Nike+ with my apple watch I noticed the same thing, HR data were included with my running. I was thrilled! But for the last two months I've been trying to recapture the exact steps that lead to that, and I've failed. I too reasoned that you have to get Apple Watch taking moment to moment HR by launching a run on Activity app, and then launch Nike+, but this has not worked for me. Do you launch Nike+ using your Apple Watch or iPhone? I think I'll try this today -- I'll launch run on Activity, then Nike+ on my phone (I usually launch on my watch) and I'll see how it goes. I'll report back. I assumed that the Nike+ update killed this functionality, but hopefully I'm wrong. I don't know why they wound't be shouting about this feature from the rooftops!

Success! 🙂😁 I used this order of operations:

1) start activity on Apple Watch (outdoor run, but I don't think that matters)

2) start Nike+ ON MY PHONE

3) end run on Nike+

4) end Apple Watch Activity run

Nike+ stats now include GPS and heart rate. This is super helpful for me, because I run in a very hilly area and I can clearly see my HR shoots up when I'm on hills... helps me moderate my run a bit -- I tend not to give myself enough slack on hills and it really kills the joy.

Also, this spurred my memory of how I accidentally happened upon this functionality in the first place. I was attempting to calibrate my shiny new Apple Watch so I could run without my phone, so I started and Activity run on my watch. But, I wanted to continue collecting data the old way for comparison, so I started Nike+ on my phone, not my watch.

Thanks. I was pretty turned off when I learned that the HR was only good for the apple fitness app, and that it only reports an average.

I did peek into the data points for HR on the health app, and saw that during workouts, HR is measured every 5 seconds (12 measurements/min) so I knew there was a lot of data being wasted.

Have you tried running nike+ and fitness on the watch? I know there won't be GPS without the phone.

this worked twice. Now won't. Any tips. All settings are set on watch and phone.

I have no idea why my Nike + Heartrate works sometimes and doesn't others. I have used about every app available for the watch and Nike + seems to work the best. Run keeper watch app heart rate monitor on watch works great but doesn't really integrate back into the iPhone very well. Not sure why but am going to research. The Runkeeper watch app is the fastest watch app. Anyway! In regards to Nike +, it seems to be grabbing the heart rate from another source that is accessing the apple health heart rate function. I got a heart rate from the Nike + app while run keeper was working in the background. Also got a heart rate with ismooth run working in the background. I'm thinking they both activate the apple fitness app that records heart rate. Anyway, going to use the steps you posted above from now on! Thanks for posting them...

Hi!

I had almost the same issue. GPS was never a issue for me but the heart-rate didn't show on my running data.

A friend of mine was using the exact same constellation I did and he never had an issue - heart-rate was always there.

So I started to check all the settings and found that they have been exactly like it was as my friend had set it up - so my conclusion was that there's something else in the background which is blocking the synchronization of the data.

So my simple approach was to remove the Nike+ app from my iPhone. On this process I was asked if I also want to delete the Health-Data which I denied.

After the app was deleted I simply re-installed it from the AppStore and started it. After the login to Nike+ within the app I was asked to give the app several permissions (e.g. access to Music, permission to send notification) - and after that I was asked if I want to catch heart rates :-)

Guess what - the app worked afterwards like a charm and all the date including my heart-rates where showing up in the activities details after my first run since re-installation :-)

Maybe the issue is that there should be an Apple Watch already be connected to the phone when you install the Nike+ App so that the app knows about this connection...

Hope this info helps...

Toni

Has anyone had luck figuring out how to get it to work so you can leave your phone behind with BT 4.0 HRM to watch and data visible in Nike+ RC (or any other apple watch series 2 app). I still cant get it working to send HR data from phone to watch, but ultimately i dont want to run with my phone. Thats the whole reason i bought series 2. Its been nothing but frustrating so far.

I have the same issue. I have all the sharing setup on both an iPhone 7 and an apple watch 2 - I cannot get the app or the phone to record heart rate.

I have the latest versions of everything. Argh - is there a block on using NRC on a non Nike branded watch.