Importing workouts from Apple Health

Yes. On iPhone, once you connect Apple Health, Nutrola automatically pulls your recent HealthKit workouts (the last 30 days by default), including Apple Watch and third-party app sessions, into your exercise log. Each activity is mapped to a Nutrola exercise type, zero-calorie samples are skipped, and re-imports are de-duplicated, so the same workout never appears twice.

Will my Apple Watch workouts show up in Nutrola?

If your Apple Watch (or another app) saves a workout to the Apple Health app, Nutrola can read it. Nutrola imports workout sessions from Apple Health, so anything that lands there, an Apple Watch run, a ride, a yoga class, or a session from a third-party fitness app, can be brought into your Nutrola exercise log.

This works on iOS only. Apple Health is an iPhone feature, so there is no Apple Health import on Android. If you use Android, see Health sync on Android (Google Health Connect).

How to turn it on

You first need to connect Apple Health:

1. Open Profile/Settings.
2. Go to the Health & Devices section.
3. Tap Apple Health and follow Connect to Apple Health.
4. When iOS asks, allow the Health permissions Nutrola requests.

Once Health is connected, the workout import runs on its own. There is nothing else to tap. For the full list of what Nutrola reads and writes, see Exactly what data Nutrola reads from and writes to Apple Health.

When does the import happen?

The import runs automatically when you open Nutrola while signed in and Apple Health is connected. By default it looks back over the last 30 days of workouts and adds any it hasn't already imported. If Apple Health isn't connected, the import simply does nothing. For more on sync timing, see When Apple Health sync happens (and why nothing imports during onboarding) and Sync with Apple Health (iOS).

What gets imported, and what is skipped

• Each workout is mapped to a Nutrola exercise type based on its Apple Health activity. Activities Nutrola doesn't have a specific match for are filed under a general sports type.
• Zero-calorie workouts are skipped. Apple Health sometimes stores empty or phantom sessions (for example, from background motion detection) with no calories. Nutrola leaves these out so they don't clutter your log.
• Re-imports are de-duplicated. Nutrola uses a stable key tied to each Apple Health workout, so running the import again never creates a duplicate of a workout you already have.
• Workouts you logged in Nutrola are not re-imported. When you log an exercise in Nutrola and it gets mirrored out to Apple Health, the import recognizes it and won't pull it back in as a duplicate.

A note on the calorie numbers

The calories shown on an imported workout come from Apple Health, and exercise calories in general are estimates. Treat them as a guide rather than an exact figure. You can still log workouts directly in Nutrola too, see Logging exercise and calories burned and Does logging a workout increase my calorie budget?.

Removing an imported workout

If you delete an imported workout inside Nutrola, that does not delete the original sample from the Apple Health app. Nutrola does not write deletions back to Apple Health, so the workout will still exist in Health. This is the same behavior described for meals in Deleting a meal in the app does not remove it from Apple Health.

Still need help? In the app, open Profile/Settings → Support & Legal → Contact us to chat with our support assistant, or email us at support@nutrola.app.