Garmin Connect sync to "Google Fit" and "Samsung Health"

Garmin Connect is a great sports tracking app. But a lot of people also want other features that are more health oriented. And this is where sending data from Garmin Connect to a service like Samsung Health or Google Fit comes in place.

Link to the answer poll (time to complete is around 10 seconds): https://forms.gle/C3Mj5pe4GEM8R6wSA (Google Polls because it gives option to gather answers from multiple sources like Facebook, Twitter,...)
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0 BertoTrail over 3 years ago in reply to 8226058

Yes, but the question is: Why Garmin force us to use an external app, instead of sinc directly with Google Fit?

0 HuseinDSilmiP over 3 years ago in reply to BertoTrail

Probably because Google is afraid how good is Garmin and Garmin is afraid how good Google WILL be if they trust each other. Professional jealousy.

0 VLAD over 3 years ago in reply to K2

No just running data

0 VLAD over 3 years ago in reply to tre4w

0 Jacques over 3 years ago in reply to warriorprincess19

The Health Sync app does unfortunately not sync steps, the main activity that I wished to synchronise with Samsung Health. It otherwise looks like a great app for syncing the rest of the activities and statistics.

0 5515378 over 3 years ago

Hi, is this not fixed yet? Is Garmin paying attention to their users at all? I have multiple GARMIN devices, but if this is not fixed I am going to migrate to other open and respecting the user ecosystem..

0 Jacques over 3 years ago in reply to 5515378

Apparently the Samsung Health app prevents any third party app from importing steps. All other activities should be fine to be imported. So, it seems to be a restriction from Samsung and not from Garmin.

0 VLAD over 3 years ago in reply to Jacques

Exactly. Samsung is doing this on purpose so that people buy their wearables.

Honestly samsung health is no longer interesting. Garmin dashboard is so much better

0 Jacques over 3 years ago in reply to VLAD

Absolutely. I wanted to compete in steps with my non-Garmin friends who has Samsung Health. So now, I have to find another way for our steps to be measured against each other.

0 5515378 over 3 years ago in reply to 5515378

Just to clarify, I am using Iphone, looks like I have solved the issue by allowing the health app to read from strava. Not sure whiy direct connection did not work. So to sync to google fit I think it is going from garmin -> strava -> apple health -> google fit. Not sure why it could not be direct from Garmin connect to Google fit.