Fitness Connected organizes these metrics when supported data is available through Apple Health or Health Connect.
Not every metric is a competition. Fitness Connected can put health and activity data in context with other people and groups, but the goal is not to turn every number into a leaderboard. Metrics like resting heart rate, HRV, and sleep are especially personal, and are often more useful for understanding your own patterns over time.
How Fitness Connected presents supported health and activity data. This is not medical advice.
A daily count of steps recorded through your health platform. Steps are a familiar activity signal, useful for noticing your own movement over time.
Fitness Connected uses steps across daily views, longer-term trends, and shared experiences when visibility allows. Standings and Compare can add social context without requiring every day to be a contest.
Totals can differ between apps depending on which device or source the health platform prioritizes.
Distance associated with your activity for the day, based on what your health platform reports.
Distance appears in your daily views and trends, and can show up in shared standings and Compare when permitted. It is another way to see movement alongside steps and other activity metrics.
Availability depends on what your sources write into the health platform and how that platform aggregates it.
Time associated with activity for the day, as available from supported sources.
Active Minutes appear in your own views and in shared places such as standings and Compare when data and visibility allow. They help describe how much of your day included activity, not whether that day was a success.
Definitions of active time can vary by device, workout logging, and platform rules.
Energy associated with activity above resting baseline for the day, as available from supported sources.
Active Calories appear in your own views and in shared standings or Compare when available and allowed. Different devices estimate this differently, so your own trend often matters more than matching someone else exactly.
Estimates differ widely across devices and apps. Fitness Connected reflects supported platform data rather than inventing a separate clinical calculation.
Resting heart rate reflects heart rate while you are at rest, when your sources provide it. Your own pattern over time can be useful context, and resting heart rate can vary with fitness, stress, sleep, medication, and other personal factors.
Resting HR can appear in your trends and in Compare when present. Group leaderboards do not rank Resting HR. Fitness Connected does not prescribe an ideal number.
Not every wearable writes resting heart rate into Apple Health or Health Connect in a way Fitness Connected can use.
Heart-rate variability (HRV) describes small differences in timing between heartbeats, when supported readings are available. HRV differs substantially between individuals, so your own baseline and longer-term pattern are generally more useful in Fitness Connected than comparing raw values between people.
HRV can appear in your trends and in Compare when present. Like Resting HR, group leaderboards do not rank HRV. Fitness Connected does not prescribe an ideal HRV value.
Methods and availability vary by platform and source. Missing HRV is common and does not mean a zero reading.
Shows the amount of sleep reported through your health platform and attributed to the day you wake up. Fitness Connected does compare sleep in shared views, but those comparisons are meant to add context, not suggest that another person's sleep total is a target you need to beat.
Sleep can appear in your trends and in shared views when available. Averages focus on nights where sleep data is present rather than treating missing nights as zero.
Tracking depends heavily on the source app or wearable and what it writes into the health platform.
A count of workout or exercise sessions for the day, based on sessions written into your health platform.
Activities help show training or movement sessions alongside other daily metrics in your own views and shared places when visibility allows. Session counts describe logged activity, not a score of overall health.
Only sessions written into Apple Health or Health Connect can appear. Unlogged workouts will not show up.
Different apps may read different sources, apply different aggregation rules, or follow different device and platform behavior. Daily summaries in Fitness Connected may not match another app exactly, even when both are looking at related health data.
Fitness Connected presents supported metrics at a day level and in longer-term trend views. Daily Snapshot helps you see what is available for today. The You section includes longer-term trends so patterns over a selected period are easier to notice.
No reading is not necessarily zero. A blank or unavailable metric usually means the source did not provide usable data for that day, a permission is missing, or the platform has not made that signal available yet.
