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Why does my Garmin give me credit for walking + running while I’m asleep?

Why does my Garmin give me credit for walking while I’m asleep?

When checking the synced Apple Health app ‘Walking + Running Distance’ feature, I noted that my Garmin logs the same amount of walking + running distance every hour of the night. A few recent examples are 0.27 miles, 0.15 miles, and 0.11 miles). When you add these up over an 8 hour might, I get typically log between 1 and 3 miles walking while asleep.

Meanwhile, I typically wake up with ~20 steps from natural rolling around and adjusting in bed. 

What’s going on here? Why does my Garmin Phoenix think I’m running a 5k while sleeping while simultaneously not taking any steps?

  • Have you logged activities during the night? Use the screen lock to prevent you from accidentally starting activities. 

  • No, no activity started during the night. And it happens every night. Same distance every hour, too - as shown in the screenshot. 

  • What does it look like in Garmin Connect? 

  • I don’t know how to see distance by hour in Garmin Connect, but the total shown in Garmin Connect & Apple Health do not sync up. E.g., yesterday I have 9.7 miles in Garmin Connect (19,260 steps) and 12.8 miles in Apple Health (17,414 steps). The trend is consistent across past days and weeks - more steps in Garmin Connect, more distance in Apple Health. 

  • So in Garmin Connect everything looks ok? No activities or steps logged. 

    The only place you see this is in Apple Health? What does it look like in the log for Apple Health? What is being synced? 

  • Yes, everything seems to look ok in Connect as far as I can tell.  

    Interestingly, there is no distance recorded while I’m sleeping when I look at the full data log in Apple Health — it only shows up in the chart form. The data comes from my iPhone and the Connect app. Nowhere else. 

  • Hi, I’ve been having the exact same thing. Just discovered that if you go into Apple health, to the “walking + distance running” section, scroll down to “show all data”. Click on a day, at the top it has the Connects logo with a distance. That distance, divided by 24, is the distance that’s it’s showing on those repeated overnight parts. Weirdly there are hours during the daytime where there can be less kilometres than this average.

    I still don’t know if garmin is adding fake kilometres to my day or what.

  • Fascinating! Yeah, I’m curious if it’s adding fake distance. It certainly isn’t correct. Very strange… glad to know I’m not the only one. 

  • This is happening to me too. Hopefully there will be a solution