How to set up Health Connect for fitness apps

What Health Connect is

Before Health Connect, every fitness app kept its own copy of your steps and weight. Health Connect is a single place on your phone where apps share that data, only with your permission and only the types you allow. It lives on the device.

Get Health Connect

• Android 14 and later: Health Connect is built in. Find it in Settings, under Security and privacy, Privacy, Health Connect (the path varies slightly by brand).
• Android 9 to 13: install Health Connect from the Google Play Store.

Connect your data sources

Open the app that counts your steps or reads your watch (for example Google Fit, Samsung Health or your watch's app) and turn on syncing to Health Connect in its settings. Weight from a smart scale app works the same way.

Give Kynetix read access

• In Kynetix, go to Profile and connect Health Connect.
• Android shows a permission screen. Pick the types you want to share: steps, weight, sleep and heart rate variability.
• That's it. Kynetix reads them; it never writes to Health Connect.

Kynetix uses steps to size your calorie target (each step above 7,000 a day adds a little), weight for your trend, and sleep and HRV for Kyno's recovery read.

Turn it off

Open Health Connect, choose App permissions, pick Kynetix and switch off any type, or remove access entirely. Kynetix keeps working without it; your targets just won't adjust for steps.

Which apps can share with it

Most major fitness and health apps on Android can read from or write to Health Connect, including step counters, smartwatch companion apps, smart scale apps and workout trackers. Check each app's settings for a Health Connect option.

If your steps don't show up

• Open the app that counts your steps and make sure syncing to Health Connect is turned on.
• In Health Connect, check that the step app has permission to write steps.
• Check that Kynetix has permission to read steps.
• Give it a few minutes; some apps sync in the background on a schedule.
• If you have two apps writing steps, set a priority in Health Connect so they aren't double counted.

What Kynetix does with each type

• Steps: a 14 to 30 day average adjusts your daily calorie target up or down, by up to 400 kcal.
• Weight: your trend line and targets follow your real weight.
• Sleep and HRV: Kyno uses them for a recovery read, for example suggesting an easier session after a few short nights.

Data stays on your terms

Health Connect keeps the data on your device, and each app sees only what you allow. You can review exactly which app read what from Health Connect's own screens, and delete data there too.

Key takeaways

• Health Connect is Android's on-device hub for health data, built into Android 14 and later.
• Turn on syncing in the app that counts your steps or reads your watch.
• Give Kynetix read access to steps, weight, sleep and HRV, only the ones you want.
• Revoke access any time from Health Connect's app permissions.

Do you need a smartwatch?

No. Your phone counts steps on its own through a step app, and you can log weight by hand in Kynetix. A watch or a smart scale just adds data automatically, and sleep and HRV usually need a wearable.

Privacy

Kynetix only reads what you allow and doesn't sell or share it for ads. See the <a href="/Kynetix/privacy/">privacy policy</a> for exactly what is stored.

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