Connected health

1. What it is and what it brings

Your phone has a central place where health apps and watches store their data: Health Connect on Android and Apple Health on iPhone. VitaLinks connects to that place, so it works with any watch or app that writes there.

With your permission, VitaLinks reads:

• Steps
• Heart rate and oxygen saturation
• Blood pressure
• Workouts
• Weight and sleep

Read only. VitaLinks reads this data and never writes to Health Connect or Apple Health. This feature is in the mobile app; it isn’t available in the browser.

2. Connect it

1. In the mobile app, open Settings.
2. Scroll down to Health Connect (on iPhone it’s called Apple Health).
3. Tap Connect Health Connect or Connect Apple Health.
4. The system will show you the list of data. Turn on what you want to share and confirm.

The first time, VitaLinks brings in the last 30 days, so your charts don’t start empty.

On Android: if you see Install Health Connect, your phone doesn’t have that Google app yet. Tap it, install it from Google Play and come back to Settings.

3. Where the data shows up

• Steps: at the top of the Exercise tab, and in a chart in Progress.
• Workouts: in the day’s list in Exercise, with a label showing where they came from.
• Heart rate and oxygen saturation: in charts in Progress.
• Blood pressure, weight and sleep: in Progress, next to what you log yourself, marked as synced.

Your entries are never overwritten. Imported data is stored separately. If you log a weight or a blood pressure reading by hand, VitaLinks never replaces it with the imported one.

4. Keep it up to date

VitaLinks imports new data every time you open the app. There’s nothing you need to do.

• To force it: in Settings, tap Import now. You’ll see the time of the last import right there.
• To review what you share: tap View granted permissions.
• If you see Grant additional access: there’s some data VitaLinks can read that you haven’t allowed yet. Tap it if you want to add it.

5. Change or remove permissions

Permissions are managed from the system, not from VitaLinks, and you can remove them whenever you like.

• On Android: open the Health Connect app, find VitaLinks among the apps with access and change what you want.
• On iPhone: open Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → VitaLinks.

If you remove a permission, VitaLinks stops importing that data. What was already imported stays in your history.