Automating your tracking is one of the most powerful ways to stay consistent. By connecting Habitify to Apple Health, you can let your iPhone and Apple Watch do the logging for you, ensuring your progress is always accurate and effortless.
This guide will walk you through all the specific data categories and types that Habitify can read from Apple Health to automatically complete your habits.
How to Create a Health-Synced Habit
From the main Journal screen, tap the '+' icon to add a new habit.
At the top of the creation screen, tap the "Apple Health" tab.
You will see a list of all available data types. Simply tap the one you want to track (e.g., "Steps").
Set your goal (e.g., 10,000 steps) and save the habit.
If this is your first time, your iPhone will ask you to grant Habitify permission to read this data. Please make sure to "Turn On All" or enable the specific categories you want to sync.
See the details here: Integrate Habitify Habit with Apple Health.
Supported Apple Health Data Categories
Here are the categories of data you can sync to your habits:
1. Daily Activities
These habits are perfect for tracking your general daily movement and are the core of the Apple Watch Activity Rings.
The supported activities includes: Sleep, Water Intake, Hand Washing, Stand Hours, Step Count, Mindfulness, Move Time, Stand Minutes, Exercise Time, Tooth Brushing, Sexual Activity.
The supported units for each activity are the same with the unit used to track the activity in Apple Health. For examples:
Sleep tracked in hours or minutes
Water Intake tracked in liters or mL
Step Count tracked in steps.
2. Exercise and Fitness
This category focuses on your dedicated workouts and active periods.
Unit: Duration unit (minutes, hours), and Energy unit (kcal)
Activity: You can track the duration and the energy burnt of all types of workouts, such as Running, Walking, Cycling, Swimming, Strength Training, and more.
Note: To track the workout time on all activities at once, please use "Exercise Time" in the category "Daily Activities".
3. Mindfulness & Wellness
This category is ideal for tracking your mental health and rest.
Unit: Minutes as default unit, and other duration units.
Activity: Time in Daylight, UV Exposure
Note: For Mindful Minutes to track the Meditation habit, please find it in the category "Daily Activity".
4. Nutrition & Diet
Automate your dietary goals by syncing data logged in other nutrition apps (like MyFitnessPal) via Apple Health, including:
Fiber Intake, Protein Intake, Carbonhydrates, Monounsaturated Fat, Total Fat, Saturated Fat, Sugar Intake, Fat Intake ( supported track in "gram" as default unit and other mass units)
Calories Consumed (supported track in "kcal" as default unit and other energy units)
Cholesterol, Sodium Intake, Caffeine Intake, Blood Alcohol Content (supported track in "miligram" as default unit and other mass units)
Alcoholic Beverages ( supported track in "rep" default unit)
5. Vitamins & Minerals
Track your intake of specific micronutrients that you log in Apple Health.
Unit: Micrograms (default) & other mass unit
Supported Vitamin & Minerals: Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Calcium, Iron, Folate, Magnesium, Zinc, Niacin, Thiamin, Ribòlavin, Biotin, Pantothenic Acid, Magnesium, Manganese, Cooper, Selenium, Iodine, Phosphorus, Chloride, Molybdenum.
6. Performance Metrics
For users who are focused on improving their fitness performance, you can track:
Active Calories: track all the calories burnt in your daily activites and workouts, using unit kcal.
Flights Climbed: track the number of floors you climbed to using stairs, using unit "times". 1 floor = 1 time.
Swimming Strokes: track the number of strokes you have completed, using unit "times". 1 strokes = 1 time.
Cycling Power: track the actual, real-time energy output you are generating with your legs while cycling, using unit "Joules", and other Energy unit.
Rowing Distance: track the total distance you rowed, as estimated by your watch or measured precisely by a connected rowing machine, using Distance unit such as km, feet, yards, miles.
Estimated Workout Effort: track your personal, subjective rating of how difficult a workout felt to you. It's a way to track your perceived exertion, not your body's actual measured output, using unit "times". 1 score = 1 time.
Workout Effort Score: track an objective, calculated score that quantifies the total strain or "load" of your workout on your body, using unit "times". 1 score = 1 time.
7. Health Monitoring
This category is for tracking key body-wide health indicators.
Weight: (Tracking the Action): This habit does not track your actual weight value (e.g., kg or lbs). Instead, it tracks whether you recorded your weight in Apple Health for the day. Once you save your weight, the habit will be marked done.
Medication Intake: If your iPhone is on iOS 26 or later, you can now use Habitify to sync your "Medication" adherence directly from the Apple Health app, making it easier than ever to track that you've taken your medications, vitamins, and supplements. Read how to add your medication first here.
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