How to sync your Samsung Health data with Google Fit
Samsung Galaxy Watches offer excellent hardware, an intuitive UI, and a customizable design. Plus, they are packed with sensors to monitor your health and physical activity, syncing that data with your phone and Samsung Health. These features make them one of thebest smartwatches for Android. Still, you may have used the Google Fit app to track your health and fitness stats. Thanks to Health Connect, it is possible to get everything connected and synced together. This guide shows you how to sync your Samsung Health data to Google Fit using Health Connect.
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Google plans todeprecate Google Fit APIsby 2026. Once the API is deprecated, it will no longer be possible to sync Google Fit directly with other apps. That’s why we use the Health Connect app/API as the primary intermediary for syncing data across Google Fit and other apps.
What is Health Connect, and what does it do?
Health Connect is a platform containing a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) where multiple apps and services read (or write) your health metrics. It’s useful because fitness apps must manually integrate with other similar services to share data. For example, if you use Stravato track your runs, other apps like Sleep My Cycle can’t see the data. Similarly, if you use Sleep as Androidto monitor your sleep quality, other fitness tracking apps can’t view its data if the app doesn’t add support for them.
Health Connect aims to solve this problem. It’s an app intermediary. Every fitness app can send its collected data to Health Connect, which another app can pull. This way, apps can share data without a privacy risk. Health Connect supports sharing health data, including activity types, body measurements, cycle tracking, and vitals.
Shared data across Google Fit and Health Connect
According to Google, when you connect and grant access to Google Fit, you permit the app to access or edit Health Connect data. Google Fit will still have a copy of this data.
Google Fit also adheres to theHealth Connect policy requirementsand thePermissions and APIs that access sensitive informationpolicy. This includes adhering to theLimited use requirements, which determines how Google Fit can access and use your data through Health Connect.
How to sync Google Fit data to Health Connect
Download and set up Google Fit on your phone and smartwatch before proceeding with the steps below.
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After it’s connected, Google Fit reads data shared with Health Connect over the last 30 days to pull existing data saved by other services. Follow these steps to confirm Google Fit is syncing data with Health Connect:
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How to sync Samsung Health data to Health Connect
Next, you’ll link Samsung Health with Health Connect. Follow the steps below to do so.
Your Samsung Health data might not appear immediately in Google Fit. The syncing process can take a few hours. You can’t fast-forward this process.
View your Samsung Health data in Google Fit
With data syncing between Samsung Health and Google Fit turned on, you can view your tracked health stats in Google Fit. To view a timeline of your daily activities that were tracked or recorded, switch to theJournaltab in Google Fit. It gives a complete picture of your day’s physical activity, including your sleep cycle. Tap an entry for details like your heart rate, distance covered, energy expended, and more.
Samsung Health initially did not support syncing your tracked steps to Google Fit using Health Sync. It removed this limitation alongside theSamsung Galaxy S23series launch.
If you are havingtrouble syncingbetween Google Fit, Health Connect, and Samsung Health, ensure that your device is connected to the internet. We recommend checking for an update (visit the Google Play Store). If you are trying to sync Google Fit data to Health Connect, ensure theSync Fit with Health Connecttoggle is on.
Use Health Sync to sync Samsung Health with Google Fit
If you aren’t a fan of Health Connect or don’t want to use it, use a third-party app calledHealth Syncto achieve the same result. Health Sync provides a one-week trial, after which you’ll buy a license to continue using the app.
One advantage of Health Sync is that it doesn’t require official support from the app to sync data between services. For example, you can sync your Samsung Health data to Google Drive, Strava, MapMyFitness, and other services.
Manage your health data from Google Fit
Health Connectoffers a convenient way to see your Samsung Health activities in Google Fit. The app allows you to access connected apps by bringing your health data from multiple services into one place. You can also use Google Fit as a central hub to access your info from thebest Android fitness apps.
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The connection works and it has been recording everything from the point I started. But my history did not come over. How do I get that to happen?
Didn’t work for me using Galaxy Note 10 Plus and Watch 4. Trying to sync “Samsung Health” and “Google Fit”.
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