How do I connect Apple Health and what does it sync?

Connecting Apple Health to Focal allows you to automatically sync your daily movement, workouts, and key health metrics. This ensures you get proper credit for your activity without having to manually log every step or exercise session. By linking the two apps, Focal can read your steps, active energy burned, sleep details, and other vital statistics to update your Home Movement card and calculate calorie targets accurately. It also allows Focal to write data back to Apple Health, such as your strength training workouts and body weight check-ins. You remain fully in control of your privacy; you choose exactly which categories to share in your settings. This guide explains how to set up the connection, what specific data is read and written, how your information is used within the app, and how you can earn experience points for keeping your activity synced.

Linking your Focal app to Apple Health is straightforward. You will be prompted to grant permissions during your initial setup, or you can manage this connection later in your settings. Because Apple Health manages all permissions natively, you have complete control over exactly what Focal can access. Completing this connection for the first time awards you a one-off bonus of ten experience points.

• 1. Open the Focal app and navigate to your settings.
• 2. Select the option to connect Apple Health.
• 3. Review the prompt that appears from iOS asking for read and write permissions.
• 4. Toggle the switches for the specific data types you wish to share.
• 5. Tap allow to confirm your choices and save the connection.

When you grant read permissions, Focal pulls information from Apple Health to power various features like your Home Movement card and exercise calorie add-back for nutrition planning. The app will sync data in the background each time you open it.

• Steps and active energy burned.
• Activity summaries and recorded workouts.
• Resting heart rate and heart rate variability.
• Sleep data and daily water intake.

Focal can also act as a source of information for Apple Health. This ensures your overall iOS health ecosystem stays up to date with the progress you make inside the Focal app.

• Completed strength training workouts.
• Body weight updates from your regular check-ins.
• Water intake logged directly within Focal.

Your synced steps and active calories fuel your step goal experience points, Step Battles, and the community leaderboard. Importing a workout from Apple Health also grants you fifteen experience points per session. If you prefer to keep your activity private, you can toggle a specific setting in Focal to hide your movement and steps from your public profile. Focal will only ever access the exact data points you explicitly allow in your Apple Health settings.