Connect your watch or tracker

Any device that syncs to Apple Health works with Step Step

How it works

Step Step doesn't connect to wearables directly, and that's by design. Your iPhone's Apple Health app is the meeting point: every tracker writes its data there, and Step Step reads from there. That keeps your data on your device, needs no extra accounts, and means one setup recipe covers every brand:

Step 1: connect your wearable to Apple Health using its own companion app (see the guides below).
Step 2: make sure Step Step can read from Apple Health. We ask for this when you first open the app; you can check it any time in iPhone Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Step Step.

That's it. Steps, workouts and weight from your device will appear in Step Step just like data recorded on your iPhone.

Seeing different numbers on your watch?

This is the most common question we get, and it's almost never a bug. When more than one source records steps at the same time (say, a Garmin on your wrist and an iPhone in your pocket), Apple Health has to pick one so your steps aren't counted twice. It uses a ranking system: whichever source sits higher in the priority list wins for any overlapping time. Step Step always shows Apple Health's merged total, the same number the Health app itself shows.

If you'd rather your watch's count win, move it to the top of the list:

Open the Health app and go to Browse → Activity → Steps.
Scroll down and tap Data Sources & Access.
Tap Edit, then press and hold the handle beside a source and drag it to the top.

Two more things worth knowing. First, an Apple Watch handles all of this automatically; it sits at the top by default and Health merges Watch and iPhone movement intelligently. Second, even with a perfect priority order, different trackers can legitimately disagree a little: each brand uses its own motion thresholds for what counts as a step.

Guides by wearable

Apple Watch

Nothing to set up. A paired Apple Watch feeds Apple Health automatically, and Health is smart about merging Watch and iPhone movement so nothing is counted twice. By default the Watch also sits at the top of the priority list, which is exactly where you want it.

Garmin

Pair your watch with the Garmin Connect app, then enable Apple Health sharing inside Garmin Connect and grant it permission to write steps. Two quirks worth knowing: Garmin Connect generally needs to be opened for fresh data to push through, and when you first connect it only backfills a couple of weeks of history. Garmin also has a dedicated article about step counts differing between Garmin and Apple Health, which is nearly always the priority order at work.

Official guide: Garmin: sharing Garmin Connect data with Apple Health · Garmin: Apple Health shows a different step count

Oura

Oura counts steps and can write them to Apple Health. In the Oura app, open Settings, choose Data sharing, then Apple Health, and switch the connection on. Oura's own guide also shows how to drag Oura to the top of the Health priority list, or how to stop Oura writing steps entirely if you'd rather your iPhone or another device own that number.

Official guide: Oura: Apple Health integration

WHOOP

WHOOP syncs to Apple Health, including steps on current hardware. Enable the integration from the WHOOP app's settings and grant the Health permissions you want. If WHOOP and your iPhone disagree about a day, that's the priority order deciding which source wins; see the guide above.

Official guide: WHOOP: Apple Health integration

Fitbit

Fitbit's Apple Health support is newer and still uneven across devices. Recent versions of the Fitbit app have added a direct Apple Health option for many trackers (look under App Settings in the Fitbit app). If your device doesn't show it, small bridge apps on the App Store can copy Fitbit data into Apple Health instead. Either way, once steps land in Apple Health, Step Step sees them.

Official guide: Fitbit help centre

Polar

The Polar Flow app can write activity to Apple Health. Turn the Apple Health connection on in Polar Flow's general settings and grant the permissions you want shared.

Official guide: Polar support

Suunto

The Suunto app connects to Apple Health from its profile settings. Once connected, workouts and daily activity flow into Health and show up here automatically.

Official guide: Suunto support

COROS

In the COROS app, open your profile and look for third party app connections; Apple Health is one of them. Grant it write access and your watch data joins the rest of your Health record.

Official guide: COROS support

Withings

Withings watches and scales sync through the Withings app, which has long had solid Apple Health support; enable it from the app's settings under connected health apps. Weight from a Withings scale appears in Step Step's weight tracking the same way steps do.

Official guide: Withings support

Amazfit and Xiaomi

Bands and watches from Amazfit and Xiaomi sync through the Zepp or Mi Fitness apps, both of which offer an Apple Health connection in their settings. Coverage varies a little by model, so if steps don't appear, check exactly which data types the app is allowed to write.

Official guide: Amazfit support

Samsung Galaxy Watch

An honest note: recent Galaxy Watch models (Watch4 and later) no longer pair with iPhones at all, and Samsung Health doesn't talk to Apple Health. If you have an older iPhone-compatible model, a third party bridge app is the only route into Apple Health. For iPhone users we'd gently steer toward any of the wearables above instead.

Still stuck?

Email support@step-step.app and tell us which device you're using; a real human reads every message. If your wearable's brand isn't listed above, the recipe is still the same: find the Apple Health option in its companion app, switch it on, and Step Step will take it from there.