456 steps per hour in health app

Health app has been recording 456 steps per hour for the last 23 hours even when asleep!


total distance for today is 4.4km - but I went for a run this morning and did 6k so my distance and steps are incorrect.


Anyone seen this before? Anyway of checking what is wrong? it seems to have now started recording more steps so not a big deal - this does feed into my insurance so I like to get my steps right!


iphone x on iOS 12

Posted on Oct 1, 2018 1:48 AM

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Posted on Apr 13, 2019 8:22 PM

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.

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