Google Health Connect Integration

Yes, through Google Health Connect, so there is nothing to install on the watch. A Wear OS watch, such as a Pixel Watch or a Galaxy Watch, saves what it records in its companion app on your phone, such as Fitbit or Samsung Health, and that app can share it with Google Health Connect. FitnessSyncer for Android then reads it from there like any other data in Health Connect.

In Health Connect, check that your watch’s app is allowed to write the kinds of data you want, such as exercise, steps, heart rate and sleep, and that FitnessSyncer is allowed to read them. For a Galaxy Watch, you can also connect Samsung Health to FitnessSyncer directly.

To upgrade your existing Google Fit services to Google Health Connect:

• Ensure that Google Fit is being imported into Google Health Connect; see Google’s documentation for information
• Install FitnessSyncer for Android
• We recommend that you first test Google Health Connect to make sure that it is working for you by adding another source or destination first.
• After testing, delete all Google Health sources and destinations that were used in testing.
• On FitnessSyncer.com, edit your Google Fit sources and destinations and change the source or destination from Google Fit to Google Health Connect.
• In FitnessSyncer, go to the Google Health Connect section by clicking the Google Health Connect icon and accept the permissions that were requested.
• In the app’s settings (the account button at the top right in the newest version, or the Settings tab in earlier ones), select Device Syncs, enable Standard Synchronizations, and select the check mark.

You are now fully set up!

Note that unlike Google Fit support, Google Health Connect only runs on your phone. If there is a delay in processing, ensure your Battery Settings and phone is available for synchronization.

Yes, you may add filters to Google Health Connect sources and destinations, either on FitnessSyncer.com or in the app with Set up the filters when you edit the source or destination.

No, FitnessSyncer is intended to only support one source and one destination for each data type and Google Health Connect account. If you require multiple accounts, please contact us for assistance.

Usually, this is because one or more of the required permissions were not accepted. The dialog that Google Health Connect shows is scrollable and may have more permissions that you must toggle.

You can also check the permissions by:

1. Open your phone’s Settings app
2. Select Security & Privacy
3. Select Privacy Controls
4. Select Health Connect
5. Select FitnessSyncer
6. Enable the required permissions
7. At the bottom of the list, select “Additional Access”
8. Ensure that these two permissions are also enabled.

On some phones or Android versions, this may instead be reached by searching your Settings app for “Health Connect” and selecting Health Connect: Permissions Manager, then FitnessSyncer.

If you are still experiencing issues, please contact us.

Unlike every other Google Health Connect permission, Android does not let apps ask for the Read Route / Map Data permission through the normal permission dialog. A request for it is ignored rather than refused, which is why that switch, alone among them, brings nothing up when you turn it on.

There are two ways to grant it, and FitnessSyncer tells you about both when you enable the switch:

• One activity at a time. While the Google Health Connect section is open, Health Connect shows its own consent dialog as each activity with route data is synced. Approving it shares that activity’s route only, and you will not be asked about that activity again.
• Every route at once, which is granted in Health Connect rather than in FitnessSyncer. The Open Health Connect button on that message takes you to Health Connect; select FitnessSyncer, scroll to the bottom and select Additional access, then select Access exercise routes and choose Always allow. It is not on the permission list with the data types, which is why you may have looked for it there and not found it.

If the per-activity dialog is dismissed or declined, Read Route / Map Data is automatically turned back off and you will see a message explaining why. Simply re-enable the checkbox from the Google Health Connect section to be asked again on your next sync.

Either way, routes are only read while FitnessSyncer is on the screen. Android does not share an activity’s route with an app that is running in the background, even one that has been given Always allow, so routes are skipped by a scheduled or background sync and are picked up the next time you open the Google Health Connect section and sync from there.

Write Route / Map Data is not affected by any of this and is requested through the normal Google Health Connect permission dialog like every other permission.

Health Connect asks twice. After the data types, it shows an Allow additional access screen with two switches: Access past data, and Access data in the background. (Access exercise routes sits on the same screen and is the subject of the previous question.) If Access past data was left off, Health Connect hides everything recorded before that day from FitnessSyncer, and we cannot tell that apart from your simply not having older data, which is why nothing warns you.

To give us the full history:

• Open Health Connect on your phone
• Select App permissions, then FitnessSyncer
• Turn on Access past data, and turn on Access data in the background so that we can sync without the app open

Then edit your Google Health Connect sources, use the Reset button, and sync again. A Reset makes us read the whole history rather than carrying on from the last day we saw, which is what brings the older data in.

You can do a Historic Sync and get all of your data with a Pro Account by editing your Google Health source and selecting from the toolbar.