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Breathwork activities don't sync to Apple Health "Mindful Minutes"?

James2
over 3 years ago

Why don't Breathwork activities sync to Mindfulness / Mindful Minutes in the Apple Health app? This seems like an obvious one to sync.

The lack of proper sync means that other apps that use Apple Health/HealthKit can't detect Breathwork activities.

One example is https://www.humanity.health/ - it has a meditation scorethat pulls from Mindful Minutes in the Health app.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I too was surprised this isn’t an option. Really need this feature. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I can just guess how it works since it is handled on the Apple side and something they need to fix.

    Breathwork is just as any other activity. Garmin got no concept of Mindful minutes. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to e7andy

    I don't think it's on Apple's side.

    Meditation apps like Waking Up sync through to Apple Health just fine.

    I'm certain it's on Garmin's side. is this something you might be able to help with?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to James2
    James2 said:
    I don't think it's on Apple's side.

    It is a matter of definition. Since breathwork is just an activity Apple need to understand that type of activity and convert it to mindful minutes.
    An alternative would be if Garmin implemented some sort of mindful minutes, but that is a whole new concept so it might take a while to implement.

    Smaller apps like Waking Up needs the support of huge platforms like Apple Health and it is a way to market their app. They got an incentive to do what Apple tells them to do.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    It is certainly not Apple. Just look at what Connect exports, and you will see there is no Mindful Minutes. Apple has provided the API, Garmin has not used it.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 9753889

    Well, Garmin doesn't have any notion of mindful minutes so it is hard to send any data with that.

    You will have to send that idea to Garmin: https://www.garmin.com/forms/ideas/

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to e7andy

    Yup, Apple views 'mindfulness minutes' and 'workouts' as different things.  Garmin views breath work as a type of workout.  So, the only way to do this would be to have Garmin write the logic to have Garmin Connect parse out workouts by type and write them to health accordingly.  All Apple is doing here is publishing an API that anybody can write to if the owner of the phone gives them permission.   Properly implementing that API is on Garmin.   Considering that they don't even have a proper implementation of any workout type, I can't imagine that's a priority.