Apple Health Data Size

[henry72]

I have always wondered why my iCloud Health data is over 1GB. Recently I have discovered a way in iOS 16 to see the breakdown by going to Settings, iPhone Storage, Health.

Mine is 1.88GB!! Is this reasonable? I got my first Apple Watch in 2015. Is this my punishment for closing my rings daily 🤣

How big is yours?

 

[nicho]

I have always wondered why my iCloud Health data is over 1GB. Recently I have discovered a way in iOS 16 to see the breakdown by going to Settings, iPhone Storage, Health.

Mine is 1.88GB!! Is this reasonable? I got my first Apple Watch in 2015. Is this my punishment for closing my rings daily 🤣

How big is yours?

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90% of that data is probably from the first 12 months. Early watchOS and the iOS at the time wasted a lot of space (it was bad... like logging every step and 0.01m individually instead of combining them to log 500 steps)

 

[Haga]

Apple Watch user since May 2016.

 

[bricktop_at]

Mine is about 1,5GB since 2019

 

[NoBoMac]

Don't forget: that data is not just Watches, it's also all the data gleamed from the iPhones that one has had over the years. So, in the case of steps, "double" the data as phone and Watch recording same steps at same time. So that means also includes data captured by iPhone before one purchased a Watch.

Throw in possibly medical records (when turned on), any apps you might have had in the past that wrote Health data... does add up.

(BTW: 1.2GB, Watch acquired Sep 2019, and seeing 39.3MB of data from my iPhone 6 which I got rid of in 2017, seeing data starting Sep 2014 [aka the iPhone 6])

EDIT: if you look at the raw data for a category, will see a lot of extra information as well. For the steps example, timestamps for start/end times, when saved to Health, device name/make/model that recorded it, hardware version, software version. And of course, the step count. Heart Rate includes "state" (sedentary, background, workout, etc).

 

[jz0309]

2.4GB and I had AW since late 2015. All the time stamps in there add up… that is on iPhone.
My iCloud health data is 440MB… not sure what is not stored in iCloud…

 

[BigMcGuire]

iCloud Storage - Health is 224.9MB. I've had an Apple Watch since AW 3.

On iPhone it is:

 

[akash.nu]

Mine is 1.05GB