iOS app: Apple Health and the Recovery cards
Connecting Apple Health is optional. It powers the Recovery section on Home.
Connecting
- You are offered the connection during setup: tap Connect Apple Health, then choose what to share in Apple’s own sheet.
- If you skipped it, tap Connect Health on one of the Recovery cards on Home.
Sharing your health data also requires the “Health and body data” consent in Profile > Privacy and data.
What Straton reads
| Data | Used for |
|---|---|
| Sleep | Sleep card and recovery score |
| Resting heart rate and heart rate variability | Heart Rate card and recovery score. Needs an Apple Watch or similar |
| Steps and active energy | Steps card and strain |
| Workouts recorded by other apps | Strain |
Straton reads the last 14 days and refreshes at most once an hour, when you open the app.
Things to know:
- Weight, height and body fat in Apple Health are not used. Your weight in Straton comes from your check-ins.
- Workouts you finish in Straton are not currently written to Apple Health, and they do not close your Activity rings.
- For coach clients, your coach can see the health summaries you share (sleep, heart rate, steps, energy and outside workouts) if their plan includes advanced analytics.
The Recovery cards
| Card | Shows | Labels |
|---|---|---|
| Recovery | A score out of 100 | Recovered (67 and above), Moderate (34 to 66), Take it easier (below 34) |
| Sleep | Last night’s sleep. “In Bed” if only time in bed is known | Shorter than usual, About usual, Longer than usual |
| Heart Rate | Resting heart rate. Shows Steps instead if there is no heart data | Above your usual, Resting as usual, Below your usual |
| Strain | Training load for the week | Rest day, Lighter week, Usual week, Building fast |
How to read them:
- Everything is compared with your own previous 28 days, not with other people.
- Nothing is judged until there are at least 7 days of data. Until then the Recovery card shows “Learning you” with a count.
- Without a watch, recovery is based on sleep and strain. With heart data it is more precise.
- The cards are information only. They are not medical advice.
For individuals, sleep from Apple Health is one small input into the weekly review. It never changes a plan on its own.
Troubleshooting
| What you see | What to do |
|---|---|
| A dash on the cards | Nothing has loaded yet. Pull down on Home to refresh |
| Connect Health | No permission, or no data yet. Tap it to connect |
| Nothing yet today | There is no data for today yet. Sleep usually appears after you wake and your watch or phone syncs |
| Add heart data | Sleep or steps exist but there is no heart data. Resting heart rate needs a watch |
| Open Health | Access was refused earlier. Turn it back on in the Health app |
| Learning you | Fewer than 7 days of data. Keep wearing your device |
Turning access back on
Health permissions are managed in the Health app, not in iPhone Settings:
- Open the Health app.
- Go to Sharing, then Apps.
- Tap Straton.
- Turn on the categories you want to share.
iOS never tells an app whether you refused read access, so a refusal looks the same as “no data”. If the cards stay empty, check these switches first.
Disconnecting
Turn off all categories for Straton in the Health app using the steps above. To stop Straton processing health and body data entirely, withdraw the consent in Profile > Privacy and data.
Common questions
My Straton workouts don’t appear in Apple Health or my rings. Straton does not write workouts to Apple Health at the moment.
My sleep is wrong. Straton shows what Apple Health has. Check the Sleep data in the Health app and the device that records it.
Do I need an Apple Watch? No. Sleep from your iPhone and steps work without one. Heart rate and heart rate variability need a watch or a compatible device.
Does Straton use my Apple Health weight to adjust my calories? No. It uses the weight from your check-ins.