Update: October 2016 – Please note that our Apple Health connection is being deprecated due to a lack of developer support for the product. While Apple Health remains in the iOS App, we no longer offer support for it. Apple Health can still be used in an “as is where is” manner. We have since built direct connections with other fitness apps such as Runkeeper, Strava, Fitbit and Under Armour.
Now you can automatically post distances to your mission from a huge range of fitness apps and wearable devices via the Apple Health App on your iPhone (Android version coming really soon!)
Not that you are lazy or anything, but it would be quite nice to not have to remember to do it manually, right?
Please note that this new feature is currently still in beta, meaning it might not work exactly as it should for everyone!
(So please just contact us with any concerns rather than leaving a poor review on the app store – don’t be THAT guy!)
What you’ll need
- An iPhone running iOS 8 (iPhone 4s and up can run iOS 8 easy peasy)
- A fitness app or wearable device that you use to track your exercise sessions that also allows you to send your distances to Apple Health, such as RunKeeper, Strava etc (see list at bottom of post)
- A mission on My Virtual Mission (duh!)
- The latest version of the My Virtual Mission iPhone app (out now)
How to make the connection
- Install the new MVM iPhone app
- Upon launching it, it will ask to enable some Apple Health options. Go ahead an enable them.
- Enable Apple Health in the fitness app or wearable device that you want to send distances to MVM (via health) from. e.g. Runkeeper, Strava etc. Usually this is found in the settings page – it could be called “connections” or “link other services” etc.
Once you have set that up, any distances that you post to Apple Health from your fitness app or wearable will be sent to your active MVM mission.
Important notes:
- Enabling the integration will not import distances prior to enabling the integration, only new ones.
- Some apps delay sending fitness data to Apple Health by up to 24 hours
- Not all apps send distance information. Frustratingly Nike+ doesn’t send distance data, only Nike Fuel – what the heck!
- Fitbit and Apple are not friends right now and are having a schoolyard scrap. Fitbit doesn’t (yet) send distance data to Apple Health, but you could do a work around by sending Fitbit data to say Endomondo, which sends it to Apple Health, which send it to MVM – wow!
- On iPhone 6, Apple Health records all your movements through out the day and stores them as distances, this cannot be disabled. These little movements are not sent to MVM. Only distance entries above 0.5 of a mile or km are posted from Apple Health to MVM
- If you skip the Apple Health set up when first opening that, but then decide you want to enable it, go to the main menu, then settings and then chose integrations.
- To disable Apple Health, go to main menu, settings and then integrations.
Please note that this new feature is currently still in beta, meaning it might not work exactly as it should for everyone!
(So please just contact us with any concerns rather than leaving a poor review on the app store – don’t be THAT guy!)
Exciting! Can’t wait for android options!
Hi Mandi,
The Android version is no live. It is still in Beta though.
See http://blog.myvirtualmission.com/googlefit-integration-with-my-virtual-mission/
I use a garmin for my strava stats, however I also have the iphone app. To get activities into mymission I load up from my garmin to garmin connect, then that loads into strava. Once opened in iphone strava app, they are synced to Iphone health. All is good at this point, then when going into my mission, my latest activity is synced each time I load the iphone strava app. It has now loaded a 48.7 mile ride 7 times, and I am sure each time I go into strava it will keep on doing it. The Apple health app only shows 1 48 mile ride, why is my mission doing this?