Apple Watch steps issue

[Mattjamesruns]

I have tried to look and see if this has been asked before but I don’t see anything so here it is


I recently purchased the Apple Watch 3 which I love, my issue is that the Watch itself counts my steps great and updates the activity app with my steps just fine.


however if I open the Apple health app and look at my steps on there it is higher, it seems to be adding my Watch steps but also it looks like steps it’s tracker from my phone. Is there any way to stop it doing this as I was hoping to use the health app to track also but it is inaccurate

 

[Shirasaki]

You can go to Health app, go to “steps”, find “data source and access” (should be at the Bottom of the page), tap it, and find the Apple Watch you are using. You can easily identify it by checking the data record date. Then, remember the Apple Watch you are using, back to Data source list, tap “edit”, and slide the Apple Watch you are using to the top of the entire list. That will be the device Health app takes the data from.