Connecting Apple Health

Voya can read workouts, steps, active calories, distance, and heart-rate samples directly from Apple Health on your iPhone. Apple Watch users get the most out of this since the watch is where most of the data originates, but iPhone-only users still get accurate step + activity counts from the motion coprocessor.

This integration requires the Voya iOS app. Apple Health doesn't expose data to web browsers, so Safari users can't connect it from the browser.

How to connect

1. Install the Voya iOS app on your iPhone.
2. Open Voya and go to Profile → Integrations.
3. Tap Connect next to Apple Health.
4. iOS will show its Health permission sheet listing each data type. Grant the ones you're comfortable sharing, Voya needs at least Workouts and Active Energy to be useful.
5. Done. Voya pulls the last seven days the first time you connect, and re-syncs at most once every 30 minutes when you reopen the app.

What gets pulled

Each time the Voya app opens (and at most every 30 minutes), it reads:

• Workouts from the last seven days, including heart-rate samples when your watch captured them. Voya computes avg and max HR from the samples server-side.
• Daily aggregates for steps, active calories, and walking/running distance, one row per day.

Sleep, body mass, HRV, and resting heart rate aren't pulled today, the underlying plugin doesn't expose those types. We're evaluating a follow-up.

Asking Voya about your Apple Health data

Once at least one day of data has synced, three tools become available to the coach:

• "How many steps today?" → today's aggregates.
• "How's my activity been this week?" → trends across the last N days, default 7.
• "Any workouts on my watch lately?" → list of HealthKit-sourced workouts with avg/max HR.

What about duplicates with Garmin or Strava?

If you have multiple sources connected, the same workout can land in Voya from each one. Apple Health itself does the same, when you do a run with your Apple Watch, it shows up in Apple Health AND in Strava AND in Garmin Connect if you have all three apps writing back. Voya keeps them all by design rather than guess which one to drop.

You can delete duplicates one at a time from the workout detail page in the app, or ask the coach in chat ("delete the run I have logged twice from today").

Disconnecting

In Profile → Integrations, tap Disconnect on the Apple Health row. Voya stops syncing new data. Workouts and aggregates already imported stay in your account, they're yours.

To fully revoke access at the iOS level (so even reconnecting from Voya can't pull data without a fresh permission grant), go to iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Voya and turn each category off.

Privacy

Apple Health data leaves your iPhone only when you have the toggle on. Voya stores it in our database under your account, encrypted at rest. We never share it with third parties, and we delete it immediately if you delete your account.