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Garmin Connect sending Body Fat % as BMI to Apple Health

There appears to be a bug with Garmin Connect Mobile on iOS since around mid-June this year in regards to sending (at least) Index Smart Scale synced Body Fat % to Apple Health as BMI :o

There's a thread over on the Index Smart Scale forum section, but in reality, this is the fault of Connect Mobile, not the scale.. so I'm starting a thread over here.

To summarise
• Garmin Connect has not been sending Body Fat % to Apple Health for several months.
• When you dig into the "Show All Data" for BMI I see two data points for every day, one that matches the recorded BMI, one that correlates to Body Fat % (rounded to two decimal places)

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0 mpritch599 over 6 years ago

Guess I should have paid more attention to the Amazon reviews...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Index-Smart-Scale-Black/product-reviews/B0177X5ASE/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=1#reviews-filter-bar

0 DamnyBishop over 6 years ago

This morning I went through the same old process... weigh myself 5-6 times before the scale syncs, then open Connect to make sure the info was there, check Apple Health and the BF as BMI is there to taunt me.

But on the train while heading to work I notice Garmin has an update for Connect iOS available...

So before I did the update, I synced again. Problem still there.

I updated and synced... and guess what?! Body Fat is no longer in BMI, but over in Body Fat in Apple Health!

I'm glad this appears to be fixed... but the fact this was solved by Garmin in a Garmin Connect update WHILE THEY'D REPEATEDLY TOLD PEOPLE THIS WAS APPLE'S FAULT is still the height of horrific customer service.