Sync your readings with Health Connect

Health Connect is the part of Android where health and fitness apps share data. When sync is on, the readings you record in this app are written to Health Connect, and blood pressure readings that other apps save there, such as the app of a Bluetooth blood pressure monitor, appear in this app. Blood pressure and heart rate are synced. Sync is free. It is not a backup: to keep a copy of your readings, use Google Drive backup.

Health Connect is available in the Google Play version of the app.

Before you start

• On Android 14 and later, Health Connect is part of the phone. On Android 8 to 13, install the Health Connect app from Google Play first.
• Only one profile can sync: normally the first profile created in the app. If several family members use the app, select that profile.

Switch on sync

1. Tap Other, the last icon in the row at the top of the screen.

2. In the section Your Account, tap Sync data with Health Connect.

3. Read the explanation and tap Connect at the bottom.

4. Health Connect opens and asks what the app may use. Allow blood pressure and heart rate, for reading and for writing. If it also asks about access in the background, allow it, so readings from other apps arrive while this app is closed.

5. Back in the app, the screen shows Success and Your data is synced with Health Connect. Next to Blood pressure and Heart rate it shows Granted.

6. Tap the close icon at the top left. In Other, the switch next to Sync data with Health Connect is now on, and the row shows when the last sync happened.

What is synced

• When you switch sync on, the app first copies the blood pressure readings that are already in Health Connect. Heart rate saved at the same moment as one of your readings is added to it as the pulse. Then the app writes your own readings to Health Connect.
• After that, each new reading you save is written to Health Connect a few seconds later.
• Readings that other apps save in Health Connect appear in the app every 15 minutes while the app is open, and about every 6 hours while it is closed.
• A reading that is already in the app is not copied a second time. The app recognises it by its Health Connect record or by the exact same date and time.
• Deleting is not synced. A reading you delete in this app stays in Health Connect, and a reading you delete in Health Connect stays in this app.

Manage or switch off sync

• To see what is stored in Health Connect, tap Sync data with Health Connect, then View records.
• To change what the app may use, tap Sync data with Health Connect, then Change permissions.
• To switch sync off, tap the switch next to Sync data with Health Connect in Other. Readings that were already synced stay in both places.

What to check if it does not work

• The row Sync data with Health Connect is missing. On Android 13 or older, Health Connect is not installed: install it from Google Play and open this app again. The version of the app from Huawei AppGallery has no Health Connect sync.

• The app shows Missing App. Tap OK; Google Play opens on Health Connect. Install it and come back. The app then asks for the permissions.

• The row is grey and says Only the main user can sync with Health Connect. Another profile is selected. Switch to the profile that syncs.

• The row says Missing permission, or sync has switched itself off. Access was withdrawn in Health Connect. Tap Sync data with Health Connect, then Connect, and allow blood pressure again. If no permission window opens, open Health Connect from the phone's settings, find this app under the app permissions and allow blood pressure and heart rate there.

• Readings from your monitor's app do not appear. Check in Health Connect that the monitor's app saves blood pressure there. Open this app; while it is open, it checks for new readings every 15 minutes. If they only arrive when the app is open, allow access in the background with Change permissions.

• A reading appears twice. This happens when you typed a reading in by hand and the monitor's app also saved it, at a slightly different time. Delete the copy you typed in, in History. It also stays in Health Connect; to remove it there, use View records.

• A reading you deleted came back after you switched sync off and on again. When sync is switched on, the app copies everything that is in Health Connect. Delete the reading in Health Connect too, with View records.