Hello everyone, We are encountering a critical regression introduced in iOS 26.4 that results in permanent workout data loss for users. When invoking HKWorkoutBuilder.finishWorkout(completion:) while the iOS device is locked, the save operation fails completely. However, it fails silently: the completion handler executes but returns both a nil workout and a nil error. Expected Behavior: Before iOS 26.4 finishWorkout resulted in a workout id, and correctly stored the workout data in HealthKit. According to HealthKit data protection documentation, saving data when the device is locked should either succeed (writing to a temporary journal file to be merged upon unlock) or explicitly throw an error such as HKError.Code.errorDatabaseInaccessible. Actual Behavior: Because the framework returns nil for both the object and the error, the application has no way to detect that the save failed. We cannot implement a retry mechanism or queue the save, resulting in silent data loss. Steps to Reproduce: We have built a Minimal Reproducible Example (MRE) that reliably triggers this: Initialize an HKWorkoutBuilder and call beginCollection(withStart:) followed by endCollection(withEnd:). Wrap the finishWorkout call in a short 5-second asynchronous delay, protected by a UIBackgroundTask to prevent app suspension. Lock the physical device during this 5-second window. The finishWorkout completion handler will execute while the device is locked, returning workout == nil and error == nil. Existing Reports: We have filed this via Feedback Assistant (a month ago) and opened a TSI (a week ago), providing the MRE project and a sysdiagnose captured at the time of failure: Feedback ID: FB22396180 TSI Case-ID: 19755043 As we have not yet received a response or a suggested workaround through these official channels, we are reaching out to the community. Has anyone else encountered this silent failure with HKWorkoutBuilder recently? Any insights or escalation help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone, I’d love to see Apple add full Sleep Tracking support for Apple Watches that are set up using Family Setup. Many families use Family Setup for children or older family members who don’t have an iPhone of their own. Sleep is one of the most important health metrics, and it would be incredibly useful if caregivers could view sleep duration and trends just like they can with other health features. This would help parents better understand their child’s sleep habits and would also be valuable for families caring for older adults. Even if detailed health data stayed private, allowing sleep summaries to sync through Family Setup would make the feature much more useful. I hope Apple considers adding this in a future watchOS update. Is this something anyone else would find helpful?

I'm building a tennis App, but I noticed the data update between the phone and watch keeps failing if I placed my camera on the baseline and player is moving around on the court. I'm trying to notify the player when they did something wrong when the camera detected it in realtime. I'm using HKWorkoutSession to keep the watch alive. Any suggestion?

I've built an iOS app according to this WWDC25 video (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/322). I added GPS tracking for workouts. In Xcode, I've enabled Signing & Capabilities > Background Modes: Location Updates. And in my code, I request CLAuthorisationStatus.authorizedAlways. Everything works as expected, but I am unsure if .authorizedWhenInUse will not be sufficient for this kind of app. It seems even to work when I use .authorizedWhenInUse as either the Dynamic Island or the Live Activity is shown when the app is not in the foreground. I need clarification by an expert.

this may be too hard to achieve at the moment. sepsis can develop very quickly News2 is an app available on the store that measures the components of sepsis - pulse rate, blood pressure,respiratory rate, oxygen levels, temperature and conscious level - new confusion, it was developed by the royal college of physicians. some of these things can be measured on an Apple Watch. I am not a doctor, but I wonder if it would be possible to develop something for a watch that would prompt the wearing to think about it or even ask are you ok and manage in a similar way to it looks like you have had a fall. it might mean the wearer adding more information into Apple health, for instance whether they have Copd, use oxygen etc, so the system has a baseline jus a thought, and the rcp would be the best people to contact regarding the efficacy of this, but if it could be added, it has the potential to save lives

Hello everyone, I am not a developer, just someone with some ideas. my first thought is regarding activity rings- stand, move, exercise. In the current heatwave, health advise on how we do these things changes, meaning the way we complete them may be different or we might not be able to complete them at all. This could de motivate people. is there a way to link them to uk weather alerts or outside temperature so that they complete differently in a heat alert? could they link to a drink water alert?

We're seeing an intermittent issue with HKWorkoutBuilder.finishWorkout() in our production app. Our workflow is: builder.beginCollection(withStart: start) { success, error in guard success else { return } let authorizedSamples = samples.filter { self.healthStore.authorizationStatus(for: $0.quantityType) == .sharingAuthorized } builder.add(authorizedSamples) { success, error in guard success else { return } builder.endCollection(withEnd: end) { success, error in guard success else { return } builder.finishWorkout { workout, error in print("workout = \(String(describing: workout))") print("error = \(String(describing: error))") } } } } The logs from affected users are: workout builder begin: result: true, error: nil authorized samples: - HKQuantityTypeIdentifierActiveEnergyBurned - HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning - HKQuantityTypeIdentifierStepCount workout builder add samples: result: true, error: nil workout builder end: result: true, error: nil workout builder finish: workout: nil, error: nil Result The quantity samples (active energy, distance, step count, etc.) are successfully written to Apple Health. However, no HKWorkout is created. Querying HealthKit immediately afterward also confirms that no HKWorkout exists for the corresponding time range. As a result: The workout does not appear in the Fitness app. It does not contribute to Activity Rings. The quantity samples are visible, but there is no associated workout. Environment We've received reports from multiple users on: iOS 26.4 iOS 26.5 iOS 26.6 iOS 27 beta The issue only affects a small percentage of users. The vast majority complete successfully using exactly the same code path. Things we've verified We've ruled out several common causes: The app is in the foreground (UIApplication.shared.applicationState == .active). The device is unlocked. All HealthKit write permissions have been granted. finishWorkout() is called immediately after endCollection() completes. The quantity samples are successfully saved. Querying HealthKit afterward confirms that the HKWorkout itself was never created. This appears to be different from the documented "device locked" behavior, since the device is unlocked and active when the issue occurs. We also found a related discussion: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/825838 In that thread, the issue seems to be related to a locked device. However, our issue also occurs while the device is unlocked and the app remains active. Has anyone experienced similar behavior? Have you found any workaround? Has Apple provided any update through Feedback Assistant or DTS? Has anyone successfully recovered from this state by retrying finishWorkout() or using another approach? We're happy to provide additional logs or a minimal reproducible example if that would be helpful.

iOS 27 beta 3 broke my Apple health and blood pressure monitor and according to omron app, everything is being sent to Apple health. All permissions given. But blood pressure will not transfer into health.

Hello everyone, I am experiencing a strange issue regarding retrieving a custom tracking identifier (workoutPlan identifier) from a custom exported workout that has been imported via HealthKit. The Issue: First Fresh Install: When the app is installed for the first time and initialized, it fails to load/fetch the workout plan ID from the imported workout. Subsequent Launches / Re-installs: If I close and relaunch the app, the app successfully fetches the workout plan ID from HealthKit with absolutely no problems. Has anyone found a clean way to handle this without forcing a manual user refresh or an awkward delay/retry mechanism on the first launch? Any insight, workarounds, or best practices would be greatly appreciated! Environment: iOS 17+, Swift, HealthKit

Hello everyone, I am experiencing a strange issue regarding retrieving a custom tracking identifier (workoutPlan identifier) from a custom exported workout that has been imported via HealthKit. The Issue: First Fresh Install: When the app is installed for the first time and initialized, it fails to load/fetch the workout plan ID from the imported workout. Subsequent Launches / Re-installs: If I close and relaunch the app, the app successfully fetches the workout plan ID from HealthKit with absolutely no problems. Has anyone found a clean way to handle this without forcing a manual user refresh or an awkward delay/retry mechanism on the first launch? Any insight, workarounds, or best practices would be greatly appreciated! Environment: iOS 17+, Swift, HealthKit

I'm a user in mainland China. I use the built-in Workout app on my Apple Watch Series 11 (watchOS 27 beta 3) to record outdoor and indoor workouts, and then view the workout data in the built-in Fitness app on my iPhone Air (iOS 27 beta 3). I've noticed that the marker points on the route map are offset — they deviate from the actual location by several hundred meters, ending up in the middle of a river. Note: This looks like a GCJ-02 coordinate conversion issue. In mainland China, map providers are required to use the GCJ-02 datum, and GPS (WGS-84) coordinates must be converted before being displayed on the map. The offset pattern (several hundred meters) is consistent with WGS-84 coordinates being rendered on a GCJ-02 map without conversion, or a double conversion. I've filed this via Feedback Assistant: FB23716158. Happy to provide a sysdiagnose or sample workout data if needed

Hello, How can I read the dive count and total underwater time for a Dive workout from Apple Health? Is this information available through HealthKit, and if so, which APIs or workout metadata keys should I use? Thanks! Stéphane

Hello forum-community I hope you're all doing well. My Iphone recently went to apple in order to fix an issue with my camera. After I received it back, I loaded a Backup from ICloud I made before the Iphone went to Apple. So far so good. The Back Up took very long to load onto the device. Especially the apps downloading took almost four hours but I was also fine with that. When the BackUp was finished I had some bugs in some apps like yazio. Some scaling issue led to the app zooming in and out every time I tried to open Yazio. Not really a big deal but it somehow it annoyed me, so I upgraded the Ios from stable 26.5.1 to public beta 26.6 . Enough context. Now my problem: There must have went something wrong while loading the backup. All my workouts from 2023-today, all monthly medals, all other fitness data can be seen in the app. Most medals in the category „workouts“ somehow did NOT sync properly so it looks like I never completed a workout at all. What I've tried so far: Restored both my iPhone and Apple Watch from backups. Verified that all workout history is present (workouts since 2023 are intact). Verified that monthly challenges are still present. Verified that Health data appears complete and correct. Verified that activity data (Move, Exercise, Stand) is present. Confirmed that workout records are correctly stored in the Fitness and Health apps. Updated the iPhone to the latest iOS beta version. Unpaired and re-paired the Apple Watch. Restored the Apple Watch from an older backup. Allowed several days (approximately 5+ days) for Fitness and Health data to resynchronize. Kept both devices connected to Wi-Fi and charging for extended periods. Confirmed that some achievements (e.g. Longest Move Streak) are displayed correctly. Confirmed that many Workout Awards are missing or shown as not earned. Confirmed that some “Close Your Rings” awards are incorrect or missing. Confirmed that awards for workouts already completed after the restore (e.g. Walking Workout, Running Workout) remain greyed out. Confirmed that newly completed qualifying workouts are recorded correctly but do not trigger the corresponding awards. Verified that the issue persists after restoring the Apple Watch from a different backup. Contacted Apple Support. Apple Support declined further troubleshooting because the iPhone is running a beta version of iOS and recommended restoring to a non-beta version (already did that - result: no fitness data at all) Any more suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks everybody!

Hi everyone, After watching WWDC26 and going for a run today, I came up with an idea that I believe could be a natural extension of Apple Intelligence and Apple Watch. This proposal is not intended to replace Custom Workouts. Instead, it focuses on removing the manual setup required to create them by allowing Apple Intelligence to understand workout plans written in natural language. Today, Apple Watch already supports Custom Workouts, but users still have to manually recreate interval workouts. For example: • Walk 5 minutes • Run 1 minute • Walk 1 minute 30 seconds • Repeat 6 times Instead, Apple Intelligence could understand workouts written in natural language and automatically generate a structured Apple Watch workout. This could work from multiple sources: Notes Messages Mail PDFs Screenshots Photos of printed training plans Websites The generated workout could then be reviewed by the user before being saved and synchronized to Apple Watch. Intelligent Haptics I also imagined an optional feature called Intelligent Haptics. Instead of using a single vibration for interval transitions, the watch could communicate through different haptic patterns: Progressive vibration before a running interval starts. Decreasing vibration when an interval ends. Rhythmic vibrations during recovery to help regulate breathing. The goal isn't simply to notify the user—it is to reduce the need to constantly look at the display and allow them to stay focused on the workout. Since Apple Intelligence is becoming a system-wide capability, I think workouts could be understood just like calendar events, reminders or emails. I have already submitted this proposal through Feedback Assistant, but I would love to hear what other developers think. Would this be a feature you would like to see in watchOS? I'm curious to hear how other developers would improve this concept.

Environment: iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 26.5. Affects a single user out of many; cannot reproduce on any of our test devices. We use HKStatisticsCollectionQuery to read step counts for a statistics screen. For one specific user, the query's initialResultsHandler appears to deliver results == nil (the success branch never runs), so our completion is never called and the screen shows an infinite spinner. private let store = HKHealthStore() func fetchHourlyStepCounts(for day: Date, completion: @escaping ([Int]) -> Void) { guard let stepType = HKQuantityType.quantityType(forIdentifier: .stepCount) else { return } let calendar = Calendar.current let startOfDay = calendar.startOfDay(for: day) var hourly = DateComponents() hourly.hour = 1 let query = HKStatisticsCollectionQuery( quantityType: stepType, quantitySamplePredicate: nil, options: .cumulativeSum, anchorDate: startOfDay, intervalComponents: hourly ) query.initialResultsHandler = { _, collection, error in guard let collection else { // For the affected user, execution seems to reach here (collection == nil). // Adding logging of the HKError + authorization status for the next occurrence. return } var counts: [Int] = [] let end = calendar.date(byAdding: .day, value: 1, to: startOfDay)! collection.enumerateStatistics(from: startOfDay, to: end) { stats, _ in let steps = stats.sumQuantity()?.doubleValue(for: .count()) ?? 0 counts.append(Int(steps)) } DispatchQueue.main.async { completion(counts) } } store.execute(query) } What we've confirmed / ruled out: Read authorization for stepCount is granted (the user toggled it ON in the HealthKit sheet on video). The Apple Health app shows step data for this user (so data exists). A coarser query (2-year interval) for the same user succeeds, while the hourly query appears to fail — same type / predicate / options / auth. Symptom persists across app reinstall and device reboot, and re-granting Health permission. Permission denial returns empty results (per Apple docs), not an error — so this isn't simple denial. Not errorDatabaseInaccessible as far as we can tell (foreground, device unlocked). Questions: What can cause HKStatisticsCollectionQuery.initialResultsHandler to return results == nil (with an error) persistently for one device/account, when read auth is granted and data exists? Can errorHealthDataRestricted occur without an MDM/supervised profile (i.e., on a normal consumer device)? What device/account states actually trigger it? Is it expected that a coarse-interval query succeeds while an hourly-interval query on the same type fails for the same user? We're adding logging of the actual HKError code + authorizationStatus for the next occurrence, but would appreciate any insight on what conditions produce this.

I’m developing a watchOS app that records outdoor soccer workouts using HealthKit. My app starts a workout session with: HKWorkoutConfiguration.activityType = .soccer HKWorkoutConfiguration.locationType = .outdoor HKWorkoutSession HKLiveWorkoutBuilder HKLiveWorkoutDataSource During the workout, I display distance from the live builder statistics: HKQuantityType.quantityType(forIdentifier: .distanceWalkingRunning) After the workout ends, I save the workout using finishWorkout(), and later read the saved distance from: HKWorkout.totalDistance?.doubleValue(for: .meter()) So the total distance shown in my app is not calculated manually from GPS route points. It comes from HealthKit’s workout distance. I noticed a difference between soccer workouts recorded by Apple’s built-in Workout app and soccer workouts recorded by my third-party watchOS app. Example comparison: Apple Workout app soccer: Active duration: about 88 min Steps: about 8,832 Distance: about 6.7 km No visible route/location data in Fitness My watchOS app soccer: Active duration: about 87 min Steps: about 8,998 Distance: about 5.6 km Includes route/location data Workout recorded through HKWorkoutSession + HKLiveWorkoutBuilder Distance read from HKWorkout.totalDistance The step counts and active durations are very close, but the distance differs by about 1.1 km. One important detail is that the Apple Workout app soccer workout does not appear to include visible route/location data in Fitness, while my third-party workout does include route/location data. Despite that, the Apple Workout app reports a longer distance. So the comparison is not simply “GPS route distance vs GPS route distance”. It looks like the built-in Workout app may be estimating soccer distance without exposing route data, while HKLiveWorkoutBuilder for a third-party .soccer workout may be producing a different totalDistance estimate. My questions are: When the built-in Apple Workout app records an outdoor soccer workout without exposing route data, how is totalDistance estimated? Is that distance estimation behavior available to third-party watchOS apps using HKWorkoutSession + HKLiveWorkoutBuilder with .soccer? If a third-party app records route data for the same soccer activity, can that change how HealthKit calculates totalDistance compared with a no-route built-in Workout app recording? For third-party soccer workouts, should developers expect HKWorkout.totalDistance to match the built-in Workout app, or is a difference expected? Is there any additional configuration, entitlement, data type, or best practice required to get more accurate distance estimates for soccer workouts? Any clarification on the expected behavior would be very helpful. Thanks!

Today, IntervalBlock only supports a fixed iteration count: IntervalBlock(steps: [IntervalStep], iterations: Int) This works well when the athlete knows exactly how many rounds they want to perform, but a lot of structured running and cycling workouts terminate a repeating block based on cumulative distance or cumulative elapsed time instead. These constructs are first-class on Garmin Connect, TrainingPeaks, FinalSurge, and similar platforms, but there's no way to express them in WorkoutKit's CustomWorkout. We've had to either fall back to a fixed iteration count (which forces us to guess the user's pace) or skip Apple Workout scheduling for these workouts entirely, which is a poor experience for athletes on watchOS. Proposal: // Today (still supported) IntervalBlock(steps: steps, iterations: 5) // Proposed IntervalBlock(steps: steps, until: .distance(5, .kilometers)) IntervalBlock(steps: steps, until: .time(30, .minutes)) IntervalBlock(steps: steps, iterations: 8) // unchanged Example Workouts with proposed features: "Run/walk until 5 km" Run for a minute, then walk for 30 seconds until completing a 5K. "30-minute fartlek" Repeat a hard/easy pair until cumulative time hits 30 min "10 km tempo with surges" Surge/recover until total distance hits 10 km. FB: FB23359408

Hello forum-community I hope you're all doing well. My Iphone recently went to apple in order to fix an issue with my camera. After I received it back, I loaded a Backup from ICloud I made before the Iphone went to Apple. So far so good. The Back Up took very long to load onto the device. Especially the apps downloading took almost four hours but I was also fine with that. When the BackUp was finished I had some bugs in some apps like yazio. Some scaling issue led to the app zooming in and out every time I tried to open Yazio. Not really a big deal but it somehow it annoyed me, so I upgraded the Ios from stable 26.5.1 to public beta 26.6 . Enough context. Now my problem: There must have went something wrong while loading the backup. All my workouts from 2023-today, all monthly medals, all other fitness data can be seen in the app. Most medals in the category „workouts“ somehow did NOT sync properly so it looks like I never completed a workout at all. What I've tried so far: Restored both my iPhone and Apple Watch from backups. Verified that all workout history is present (workouts since 2023 are intact). Verified that monthly challenges are still present. Verified that Health data appears complete and correct. Verified that activity data (Move, Exercise, Stand) is present. Confirmed that workout records are correctly stored in the Fitness and Health apps. Updated the iPhone to the latest iOS beta version. Unpaired and re-paired the Apple Watch. Restored the Apple Watch from an older backup. Allowed several days (approximately 5+ days) for Fitness and Health data to resynchronize. Kept both devices connected to Wi-Fi and charging for extended periods. Confirmed that some achievements (e.g. Longest Move Streak) are displayed correctly. Confirmed that many Workout Awards are missing or shown as not earned. Confirmed that some “Close Your Rings” awards are incorrect or missing. Confirmed that awards for workouts already completed after the restore (e.g. Walking Workout, Running Workout) remain greyed out. Confirmed that newly completed qualifying workouts are recorded correctly but do not trigger the corresponding awards. Verified that the issue persists after restoring the Apple Watch from a different backup. Contacted Apple Support. Apple Support declined further troubleshooting because the iPhone is running a beta version of iOS and recommended restoring to a non-beta version (already did that - result: no fitness data at all) (Device iPhone 17 Pro Max - Apple Watch Series 9) Any more suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks everybody!

We're building two apps that rely almost exclusively on HealthKit, so we run a high volume of queries against a single shared HKHealthStore — mostly HKSampleQuery, plus HKStatisticsQuery and HKQuantitySeriesSampleQuery where needed. We also use HKObserverQuery for background processing and widget updates. The data is sleep, body metrics, and workouts. As our feature set grew, so did data-loading time, to the point of being a noticeable annoyance for users. To speed things up we moved from serial to concurrent queries. Mechanism: we issue the batch via a ThrowingTaskGroup — each child task calls execute() and awaits the completion handler through a continuation — with up to ~30 queries in flight concurrently against the one shared store. Symptom: The app doesn't freeze and the queries start fine, but their results sometimes take 30s+ to come back. Most of the times the same data fetch takes only a couple of seconds. There's no clear pattern except that it happens far more often on foregrounding. Environment: Devices we use for testing are iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 15 pro both running iOS 26.5. Since the symptoms are hard to catch we're using text file logging to time the data layer responses. We're considering bounding concurrency to a small N via a capped task group, or reverting to serial — but both feel like either a regression or added complexity we can't justify without understanding the real cause. Questions: When we start ~30 queries at once against a single HKHealthStore, does HealthKit actually run them in parallel, or do they get handled one-at-a-time (or rate-limited) behind the scenes? Is there a sensible upper limit on how many queries we should run at once? Should we cap it to a small number, or does that not help because the system serializes them anyway? (Also: is sharing one HKHealthStore across the app the right approach?) Why would this happen mainly when the app comes to the foreground? A few possibilities we'd like confirmed or ruled out: the device hasn't been unlocked yet so health data isn't available, the connection to the HealthKit service is being re-established after backgrounding, general contention, or our background HKObserverQuery work blocking the foreground queries. Can HKObserverQuery background work get in the way of foreground queries? If so, is there a recommended way to pause or coordinate it when the app becomes active? Thank you

Hello, I'm experiencing a bug on iOS 26.5 RC1/RC2 where the Blood Pressure option is silently excluded from the HealthKit permission dialog (when requesting HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBloodPressureSystolic and HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBloodPressureDiastolic). This does not reproduce on iOS 26.4.2 or earlier. What happens: When BP types are requested alone, a blank white modal slides up and immediately dismisses — no permission UI is shown. When BP is requested alongside other types, a normal dialog appears for those other types, but Blood Pressure is simply absent from the list. The completion handler returns success = YES, error = nil in both cases, but BP permission is never granted. The result: Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → [app] shows Blood Pressure as requested but not granted getRequestStatusForAuthorizationToShareTypes for the BP types keeps returning ShouldRequest indefinitely HealthKit queries for BP samples return no data Workaround: Manually toggling Blood Pressure to ON in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → [app name] fixes everything - queries work, notifications fire, and getRequestStatusForAuthorizationToShareTypes correctly returns HKAuthorizationRequestStatusUnnecessary. Environment: Confirmed broken: iOS 26.5 RC1 (23F75) and RC2 (23F77), iPhone 11; iOS 26.5 RC1 (23F73), simulator Confirmed working: iOS 26.4.2 (device), iOS 26.4.1 (simulator) Feedback filed as FB22735935.