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Distance synced with Apple Health still wrong in 4.62

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over 2 years ago

Plenty of people were struggling with this for a long time. Garmin sends wrong data to Apple Health which results in the distance walked/run to be greatly exaggerated. 

I thought it was supposed to be fixed with the latest update, but I still have weird data written to Health. This is what I see on a day I had a single 5 km run:

The issue is the 10 km written at midnight. Here's the detail:

Seems like some sort of daily summary is dumped to Apple Health. Is there a way to avoid that?

Thanks. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    And this is why I don't plan on spending any more money with Garmin.    This is the fixed version of their HealthKit implementation.  Previously they didn't put a time range on that entry, so it did duplicate.  If you notice they fixed it by putting a range of the entire day.  Based off of your screen shots, I believe you ran 5.1k on that day, but also walked around 4.9k through the rest of the day while wearing your Garmin watch.   The net result in Apple Health (or anything that uses HealthKit) should show the activity as being 5.1k, and the day as being 10km as it includes movement outside the run.   

    BUT, the way they have done this assumes several things they should NOT assume.   Since they decided to do the worst possible fix and record a time ranged full day summary each day, you MUST 1. Wear your Garmin watch all day, and 2. make your Garmin device the primary data source or you won't get anything even close to accurate.   Garmin is assuming you have no other devices you want to use to measure distance walked/run during the day that needs to be combined with their data.  No Apple Watch, no iPhone movement metrics, no whoop band, no nothing.  Just Garmin all day, every day.    If you don't make Garmin primary then whatever is primary will break the distance measurement for your workout if it has any records during that span (and you will absolute lose any distance outside a workout).    

    Technically the fix they just released allows them to making the marketing statements that have been false for years now saying they will send data to AppleHealth.  BUT, the ONLY use case they solved for was "Person who will wear a Garmin watch all day and only cares that the rings fill in Apple Fitness".   They did not solve for people who want USEFUL data in HealthKit.  They did not solve for people who want to use other devices at other times besides something with the Garmin logo on it and be able to combine their data.  So... if you just wanted your rings to work, and to get some REALLY low fidelity summary data into HealthKit, congrats!  you got it!   However, if you wanted to actually have Garmin share YOUR data they you recorded on a Garmin device with HealthKit in a way that was useful, you need to consider picking somebody else to buy hardware from.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to WizardlyHat

    I have only my Garmin device and iPhone, and nothing else (the phone motion and fitness feature is even turned off) and I still can’t get the move ring to fill in properly after the last update. 
    Mira really frustrating