How to sync apple watch with strava

Are you using Strava for your workouts or running? Strava work with your iPhone and Apple Watch. The app will sync with the iPhone health app and display the data. When I switch Strava from iPhone to Apple Watch, I see the syncing issue between Apple Watch Fitness App and Strava.

Check the steps to solve the syncing issue between Strava and iPhone Health or Fitness app for Apple Watch.

Enable Strava Send to Health

If you already have Strava, make sure it is reporting your activity on the Strava app. If yes, you have to enable “Send to Health” to sync with Apple Health App.

1. Open Strava App Profile.
2. Tap on Settings on the top.
3. Select Applications, Services, and Devices.
4. Tap on Health under Services.
5. Toggle On “Send to Health.”

Within a few seconds, Strava will sync with your Fitness app. The fitness app will show all activity synced from Strava. If everything is working well as expected, you can see the list of Strava activities when you open your Fitness app on iPhone.

However, the story may not be the same as always. You may see issues for syncing the data from Strava. You will see all activities on the Strava app but may not sync with the iPhone health app and Fitness app.

Related: 10 Best Workout & Fitness Apps for Apple Watch

Update Health Access for Strava App

This is the final step to solve the Strava sync issue. Before we go further, make sure you have installed the Strava app on your Apple Watch if you are using the Apple Watch for your workout.

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The next step to make sure that you have provided the access to Apple Health. We deleted the Strava app from iPhone and re-installed again. Once you log in with your Strava credentials, you have to go through the checklist again.

1. Go through the Strava Setup Checklist.
2. Turn on Motion & Fitness.
3. Tap on Sync With Health.
4. Turn All Catagories On or Select the Access for Data Types.
5. Tap on Allow.
6. Tap on Continue and follow the Steps.
7. Install and Setup Strava on Apple Watch (if you are using).

Finally, you have to make sure that you give access to health data by following the first part of this article. You will be good at this point and the Strava will start to sync with the Fitness app.

Related: How to Sync Amazfit Bip and Bip S with Strava

Similar to Apple Watch, you can sync your workout and fitness data with Strava using other devices as well. If you are looking for a cheaper alternative, Amazfit Bip supports Strava workout data sync, just like Apple Watch.

Hope this helps to sync the Strava app with your Apple Health and Fitness app. We see that the permission to the health app is not completing when an exiting user trying to give access. In that case, the best solution will be to reinstall the Strava app and give permission again to Apple Health.

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How do I sync a run to strava- with the actual route details of the run

I’ve been using strava for years and assumed my new Apple Watch would sync easily to strava. I did a run, using the Apple workout app and added Apple health to strava but all that syncs is a high level description, date, time and distance. How do I get the route data across?

Posted on Sep 2, 2020 10:13 AM

I found the answer... its actually an Apple Health setting.

If I go into workouts within health and scroll to the bottom of the list there's an option "Workout Route Data Sources & Access". Within there is an option to enable different apps.... including strava. It was toggled off, I've enabled it and then gone back to strava where I've now been able to import the data successfully and can see the route.

Its a somewhat well buried option.

Posted on Sep 3, 2020 2:47 PM