456 steps per hour in health app

I had a similar problem then I realised the culprit was other third party health apps. Some of them may estimate your daily steps by formula instead of actual measurement. Thus an average step per hour is then written to HealthKit if they are granted the right.

I suggest checking the source of those errors in iOS’ health app and find out. You may disable those app’s writing right if this is the case. You can also delete those related data to clean up your records.

Hope this helps.

Calibrating your Apple Watch for improved Workout and Activity accuracy

Same here on iPhone XS, my phone stay on a table and is not moving at all but I manage too get a fixe number of steps while I am a sleep or even while I am at the office and my phone is on myself desk.

For example in Monday I go 242 step evry hours from midnight to 7pm and the same number of steps during hours my phone is on my desk a the office.

Does Apple aknowledge the bug at least??

I have the same issue, and no Apple Watch. For the last four days it's been recording 352 steps every single hour, completely ignoring my commute to work (I walk). It's working today, but I want to rectify the data for the previous days.

How?

I have this issue too. iPhone SE. Only noticed today.

Happened after update to ios12 , never happened before. No Apple Watch

Displays exactly same step count every hour over a period of consecutive hours. Looks like its just repeatedly saving same value, rather than returning to zero for periods of inactivity - did it once for period of 6 days at end of September (repeatedly saved 220 steps per hour for 6 days (not the only occurrence happened repeatedly over last month)).

Could be that periods of significant activity somehow resets it (having said this took a long walk over weekend recorded first hour, then stuck on same value over entire period of walk)

I’m having the same issue. Looking back, the first time it happened was September 19-25, where it recorded 77 steps per hour for every hour of the day and night during that period. And the same thing from September 26th to October 6th, except 165 steps per hour during that time.

I’m having the same problem. From Nov 16 to 23 mine has recorded 125 per hour, though I KNOW some days were more and many of those days (Thanksgiving break) were much less. The app’s useless if I can’t actually track my real steps.

Iphone SE. Also just started to occur after updating to iOS12, along with a delay in step updating when it does work. I have to open the app (“no steps”), close it to force refresh, and open it again to see the steps.

Perhaps it saves a step count if you don’t open it to check now?

Has this been looked at? January 13th was walking 387 steps every hour from midnight until I woke up. Last night I am now walking 876 every hour past midnight...

No I am not wearing my watch nor do i have the phone near me

brutal.

Has this been fixed yet??? Doesn't happen every night but does many night. Phantom steps and distance of varying amounts. When I look at 'all data' it's not in there, so there is no way of manually deleting it. Super annoying!

Same issue. Steps from my iPhone XS with iOS 20.0.1

Sometimes as little as 42 steps per hour, up to 432 steps an hour.

Annoying.

Have same issue now with iPhone 6 and iOS 12 installed. Very disappointing.

iPhone SE Health app counting steps while sleeping....

Thank you that solved it for me. Apple support could have suggested that, I did not know that an app I was using was writing and reading step data at the same time.

It helped a lot !

glad that it works for you too! Cheers.