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Apple Health and Health Connect can hold readings from several devices at once: your phone, a watch, a ring, a workout app. MoveTogether counts one of them, your tracker, for your Move, Exercise, and Steps rings. Those are the numbers your competitions, leagues, and challenges use. This works on both iPhone and Android, on every plan.

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Why only one

If you wear two trackers on the same walk, both record it. Adding them together would count that walk twice and reward owning more devices. Counting one tracker keeps every score fair.

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Choose or change your tracker

  1. Open Settings > Data Sources.
  2. Under Your tracker, find the card that says We’re counting your followed by your device.
  3. Tap Change, or Choose your tracker if you haven’t picked one.
  4. Pick the device you actually wear.
If the card says your tracker hasn’t synced recently, open that device’s own app and let it sync. On iPhone you can also tap Get it syncing for help. If your device isn’t in the list, it isn’t sharing into Apple Health or Health Connect yet. Follow the Apple Health guide or the Health Connect guide. On iPhone, your choice is saved to your account, so a new phone or a reinstall picks the same tracker again. On Android, that works for Garmin, Oura, WHOOP, and Polar. If you chose a phone app such as Samsung Health, pick it again on the new phone.

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How it works on each phone

No tracker chosen yet: MoveTogether counts your Apple Watch if you have one. Without a Watch, it counts whichever device recorded the most that day. Choose one yourself to be sure.Move has two exceptions. On days you wear an Apple Watch, Move is your Watch’s Move ring. Without a Watch, Move is the higher of your tracker’s active calories and Apple Health’s own Move total.Before your tracker syncs today, MoveTogether counts another device so your rings don’t sit at zero.A new choice also applies to the last 30 days.

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Workouts, Exercise minutes, and typed-in entries

  • Workouts: workouts from any device still show up and still count toward a Workout Count competition.
  • Exercise minutes: these come only from your tracker. A workout recorded by another device shows up but doesn’t add minutes.
  • Typed-in entries: steps and workouts you type in by hand never count, whichever tracker you pick.

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Your tracker versus the system’s sources

Changing your tracker in MoveTogether doesn’t change which apps may write to Apple Health or Health Connect.
  • iPhone: in the Health app, tap Browse, then a metric, then Data Sources & Access.
  • Android: open Health Connect from your phone’s settings and manage app permissions there.

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Something not right?

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