Deleting a meal in the app does not remove it from Apple Health

Nutrola's connection to Apple Health is add-only. When you log a meal, water, or a workout, Nutrola writes it to Apple Health, but it cannot later remove what it wrote. So when you delete that entry inside Nutrola, the matching entry stays in Apple Health. To clear it, delete it manually in Apple's Health app on your iPhone.

Why does the entry stay in Apple Health?

When Nutrola saves a food or water entry to Apple Health, the system does not hand back an identifier that Nutrola could use to find and delete that exact entry afterward. Because Nutrola has no way to point back to the entry it created, deleting the meal or water log inside Nutrola only removes it from Nutrola. The copy that already lives in Apple Health is left untouched. This is a known limitation of how the Apple Health write-back works, not a sync error on your phone.

Workouts are stored with an identifier (Nutrola uses it so an imported workout is not counted twice), but in-app deletion still does not remove the workout from Apple Health. The manual cleanup below applies to meals, water, and workouts alike.

How to remove the entry from Apple Health (iOS)

You delete these entries directly in Apple's Health app:

1. Open the Health app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Browse, then open the relevant category (for example Nutrition for food and water, or Activity for a workout).
3. Open the specific data type (such as Dietary Energy or Water), then tap Show All Data.
4. Find the entry, swipe left on it, and tap Delete. To remove several at once, tap Edit in the top corner.

These exact menu names can vary slightly depending on your iOS version, but the path lives inside the Health app under Browse.

If you want to stop new entries from being added going forward, you can turn off Nutrola's write access in your iPhone's Settings under Health data access (the wording and location of that screen vary by iOS version). Turning access off does not delete entries Nutrola already wrote, so you would still clear those manually using the steps above.

Does this affect water and workouts too?

Yes. On iOS, Nutrola writes meals, water, and workouts to Apple Health, and none of them are removed when you delete the log inside Nutrola. Handle each the same way, by deleting it in the Apple Health app.

Note that water syncs to Apple Health on iOS only. On Android, water does not write to Google Health Connect, so there is nothing to clean up there for water Health sync on Android (Google Health Connect).

Will deleting it in Apple Health affect my Nutrola log?

No. Apple Health and your Nutrola diary are separate. Deleting an entry in the Apple Health app does not change what you have logged in Nutrola, and removing a log in Nutrola does not remove it from Apple Health. To fix your Nutrola diary itself, edit or delete the entry in the app Edit or delete a logged meal.

For more on what Nutrola shares with Apple Health and when it runs, see Exactly what data Nutrola reads from and writes to Apple Health, When Apple Health sync happens (and why nothing imports during onboarding), and Sync with Apple Health (iOS).

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.