# Connecting your watch or running app

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Get your runs into Apple Health, and PaceWise can do the rest (iPhone).

Two PaceWise features read your **running workouts from Apple Health** on iPhone:

- **Import from Health** (in Personal bests) scans your running workouts and offers your fastest 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon as personal bests.
- **Weekly distance** (the Trends tab) adds up the running you’ve logged each week.

Both work best when your runs actually land in Apple Health. If you run with an **Apple Watch**, they already do. Every workout is saved to Health automatically, with nothing to set up. If you run with a Garmin, Coros, Polar or any other brand of watch, or you track your runs in an app like Strava, those runs only reach Apple Health once you switch on that app’s own Health sharing. It’s a one-time toggle inside the company’s app.

PaceWise never asks for your watch account or password and has no servers of its own. It reads from Apple Health, on your phone, when you tap Import or open the Weekly distance screen. The connection below is strictly between that company’s app and Apple Health.

## Pick your service for its official guide

- Apple Watch
   
   Nothing to do. Workouts recorded with the Workout app save straight to Apple Health, ready for PaceWise.
   
   [Get started with the Workout app on Apple Watch](https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/get-started-apd4edc9bc20/watchos)
- Garmin
   
   The one we test with ourselves. In the **Garmin Connect** app on your iPhone:
   
   1. Tap **More** (bottom right), then **Settings**.
   2. Choose **Connected Apps**, then **Apple Health**.
   3. Follow the prompts and allow the data you want to share. Make sure **Workouts** is on (that’s what PaceWise reads).
   
   From then on, runs reach Apple Health shortly after your watch syncs with Garmin Connect.
   
   [Sharing Garmin Connect data with Apple Health](https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=lK5FPB9iPF5PXFkIpFlFPA)
- Strava
   
   In the **Strava** app: Settings → Manage Apps and Devices → Health → Connect, and be sure to allow Workouts. Strava only back-fills about 30 days, so connect it before you import.
   
   [Health App and Strava](https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216917527-Health-App-and-Strava)
- COROS
   
   In the **COROS** app: Profile → Settings → 3rd Party Apps → Apple Health, then choose the data types to share.
   
   [Connecting Apple Health with the COROS app](https://support.coros.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041549551-Connecting-Apple-Health-with-COROS-App)
- Polar
   
   In the **Polar Flow** app, turn on the Apple Health toggle and pick the categories to share. (Polar Beat has its own, similar guide.)
   
   [Connecting Polar Flow with Apple Health](https://support.polar.com/en/support/connecting_polar_flow_with_apple_health)
- ASICS Runkeeper
   
   In the **Runkeeper** app, open Settings and turn on Apple Health, then enable Health Sync so your runs are sent across.
   
   [Apple Health & Runkeeper](https://support.runkeeper.com/hc/en-us/articles/34074322178317-Apple-Health-How-to-connect-and-use-with-Runkeeper)
- Suunto, Nike Run Club, adidas Running, Peloton and most others
   
   Most running apps have a “Save to Apple Health” or “Connect to Apple Health” switch in their own settings. Turn it on, allow Workouts, and your runs reach Apple Health. Check that app’s help centre for the exact menu path.

## Checking it worked

Apple Health itself has the final say on what an app may write: the first time an app connects, iOS asks you to allow each data type. If runs aren’t coming through, open the **Health** app, tap your **profile picture**, then **Apps** (under Privacy) and pick your running app. Make sure **Workouts** is switched on there. If you can see your runs in Apple Health (Health app → Browse → Activity → Workouts), PaceWise can see them too. Lastly, check PaceWise’s own read access: iPhone Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → PaceWise.

## Limits

PaceWise only counts activities saved as **Running** workouts, so an indoor session logged as a plain “workout” or saved only as steps won’t be picked up. The sharing is one-way and read-only: PaceWise reads from Apple Health and never writes back. And **Fitbit** doesn’t offer an official Apple Health connection, so Fitbit runs won’t reach PaceWise without a third-party bridge app.

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