Apple Health Activity / Google Fit and Steps: What does it mean?

iPhone

The phone measures your activity during the day automatically. Activity is the amount of steps since your last sleep session. 

To be able to connect Sleep Cycle with Apple Health, within your iOS device go to: 

Settings > Health > Source > Sleep Cycle > Allow Sleep Cycle to read data > Allow Steps

Also, go to Sleep Cycle > Profile tab > Settings >... More  > Personal > Apple Health > Make sure it says "Connected"

If you do not want your phone to measure this, then please go to:

iOS Settings> Privacy > Motion Activity

 

We collect the step data from Apple Health and can't add it manually after the session is closed. So if we have not received the data correctly from Apple Health during the night it won't be added to the journal. To check this go to Apple health > steps > show all data > Select a specific day > and make sure the time stamps are downloaded before your session ended that same day.

 

Android

We now support Google Fit integration for Activity data. To be able to connect Sleep Cycle with Google Fit, follow the steps below: 

Go to Profile >  More > Google Fit and enable this.

In the Google Fit app, you can make sure this is enabled by going to the app > Profile > Settings > Manage connected apps 

 

Why does Sleep Cycle care about your daily steps? In this article, you can learn more about how exercise can affect your sleep.

 

 

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