How to delete Apple Health app or its data?

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tfeledy Author

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How to delete Apple Health app or its data?

I have 1.5 Gb of data in my Health app. How do I delete the data or the app?

iPhone 5s, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Sep 5, 2018 10:21 AM

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tfeledy Author

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Sep 7, 2018 5:36 PM in response to tfeledy

For the benefit of others who might look for this info in this forum, with the same (zero) results I obtained, here is the way to delete Health app data from iMore.com:

How to delete data from the Health app

Launch the Health app from your Home screen.
Choose a category.
Select the subject, such as Active Energy or Sleep Analysis, from which you wish to remove data.
Tap Show All Data.
Find the data that you want to remove and tap Edit.
Find the data that you want to remove and tap Edit.
When deleting select pieces of data, tap the subtraction symbol in the red circle next to the data point or points you wish to remove.
Tap Delete.
If you wish to remove all of a subject's data, tap Delete All.

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tfeledy Author

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Sep 12, 2018 10:27 PM in response to tfeledy

Another way:

In the Health App, pick a category (i.e. - "Activity," "Mindfulness," "Nutrition," or "Sleep")

Pick a sub-category, e.g. - In "Activity Category," pick "Active Energy"

Scroll down and select "Show All Data"

Scroll down and select "Delete All Data"

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bziman

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Oct 28, 2018 1:39 PM in response to manoon_khwan

I’m having the same problem. I delete all the data but it just comes back. Even if I manually backup after I remove the data. is there a solution? This data is a real memory hog.

Thanks to anyone who can help!

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-thanh

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Dec 27, 2018 11:59 AM in response to ivanowski

My health app data shows almost 6GB. I tried the recommended ways to delete all data of all types of activities. But, the data still takes the same storage space. I've tried many times. Some times I saw the amount of storage space being removed from health but added to System. Then, when I enabled health app, it took back the same storage space. This seems like a defect that needs to be resolved. It is bad to think that you need to buy more storage because of this problem.

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-thanh

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Dec 28, 2018 11:27 AM in response to -thanh

My guess is that the "deleted" data was kept in the System temporary storage space like a trash bin (that's part of the System). And, it was unable to release it. An answer or other recommendation is needed from Apple Support or System Developers. How to get the System to clean up this trashed data?

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Oct 13, 2018 1:42 AM in response to tfeledy

I do delete every category ,every source but nothing happen, memory consume the same,why ???

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Answer 7

Dec 9, 2018 7:45 AM in response to bziman

I have the same issue. I want to delete totally the HEALTH app - it is not useful at all.

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