Why can't Garmin Connect read from Apple Health - calories consumed and weight?

Every health app is moving in the direction of using Apple Health as a means to sync between multiple apps instead of syncing directly. Why can I not do this with Garmin Connect? It's so disappointing that I can't track my calories using MacroFactor and then have that sync to Garmin. Likewise with the smart scale I already have.

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1062417 1 month ago +1

Totall agree! @Garmin: I do not want to buy your *** smart scale. I have an excellent smart scale for body weight and fat that writes to Apple Health. Please assign on of your programmers to spend the…
trux 1 month ago in reply to 1062417 +1

Garmin's partner MyFitnessPal is there for this purpose, and it works both on iOS as well as on Android.

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0 1062417 1 month ago

Totall agree! @Garmin: I do not want to buy your *** smart scale. I have an excellent smart scale for body weight and fat that writes to Apple Health. Please assign on of your programmers to spend the 30 minutes it takes to enable Connect to read body weight, fat and blood pressure from Health Kit.

0 Adam-1972 1 month ago in reply to 1062417

Maybe you will ask manufacturer of your smart scale to add option to synchronize with Garmin?
Many others could do this, why they don't?

0 1062417 1 month ago in reply to Adam-1972

No. Apple Health Kit and Android Health Kit exist for this very reason.

0 trux 1 month ago in reply to 1062417

Garmin's partner MyFitnessPal is there for this purpose, and it works both on iOS as well as on Android.

0 1062417 1 month ago in reply to trux

MyFitnessPal does not sync weight, body fat or blood pressure. Only calories, which I am not interested in.

0 trux 1 month ago in reply to 1062417

1062417 said:
MyFitnessPal does not sync weight, body fat or blood pressure.

It does

0 1062417 1 month ago in reply to trux

Ok. Weight does get moved from Withings to MyFitnessPal and from there to Garmin. Body fat and blood pressure do not. The process required first connecting Withings to MyFitnessPal (which I first had to download and setup, too), and then connecting MyFitnessPal to Garmin. All in all a royal pain. Again, Garmin Connect should just read this kind of data directly from Android/Apple Health, because every Apple/Android user has this already setup by default.