I use my Mac much more than my iPhone and am constantly looking at the Calendar app. It is still very disappointing to me that my various Apple Watches have never seemed to know that my Mac exists. Is there some way to get fitness tracking data to show up in macOS Calendar? Something as simple as being able to look at my month view and see how many weeks have 3+ (all-day) workout events, and which type (walking, biking, weights, etc.) they are, would be good enough. Thanks
I would love this too. I know of no way to do this. Perhaps someone has written a shortcut to extract the data, but of course that wouldn’t be automatic.
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Personally, I’d really hate having my macOS/iOS calendar cluttered up with my activities.
There are many calendars of this type in apps/web sites, like Strava, Garmin Connect, intervals.icu and others. It’s possible to use Strava with an Apple Watch if you use the watch Strava app to record activities, but otherwise it’s very difficult to get data out of the Apple ecosystem to other places. So what you want is certainly possible, but not to my knowledge in the Apple ecosystem. There should really be a better calendar view in Health, but there isn’t. (It’s sort of there in the Workouts panel, but it isn’t very usable.)
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I have several calendars, color-coded, so a simple indication of whether I worked out that day or not, and what I did, wouldn’t be clutter for me personally. I just don’t know why Apple refuses to let Macs know that Watches exist. I just don’t think Jobs would have let this fly. A proper ecosystem acknowledges all parts, in ways that make sense.
I’ll expore further and report back.
I have my own way of importing my training schedule (which I do each 5 weeks or so) to the calendar app, so of course that shows up everywhere. And honestly I’m fine with using the phone to see my workout history - plus I keep my own spreadsheet of my training activity that does everything I need. But, sure, the ability to have a calendar that one can subscribe to, like the birthdays calendar - that would be nice.
Yes, it would be nice to have the Mac added as a Health app provider, and even iCloud.com for people that want to see it on a browser. They did add iPadOS in 2023, so maybe Apple will get there.
Mark Gurman’s latest rumor report suggested that Apple is looking to completely revamp Health, including adding machine learning to evaluate data and make suggestions, so perhaps that’s put any version of the Health app for MacOS on hold. It also may be that Apple is being super-careful for privacy reasons - MacOS is obviously way less locked-down than their mobile OSes. But that’s just me making a guess.
Oh, no, Apple too? Strava has had AI for a few months, and Garmin just launched Connect+ with AI. Both are pretty useless. Connect+ after my morning ride on Zwift (running on my MacBook Air) told me something to the effect “You did a virtual ride of x miles in y minutes”. Yes, I know that, I just did it. Strava’s is similarly lame. I doubt Apple’s will be any better. At least it’ll have access to all of my data, since I wear my Ultra most of the time and it has access to data from Garmin Connect and Strava. So it’ll know what I did, so maybe that’ll help, or maybe it’ll just make different inane comments.
You can use your Watch to unlock your Mac, so the Watch is not completely unacknowledged by the latter.
Personally I’d have some serious privacy concerns if the Health app started writing to my calendar.
There is an “export all Health data” option, if you’re feeling adventurous in rolling your own solution.
Gurman reports it is scheduled to be a part of iOS 19.4 about a year from now (and we all know how that worked out for Siri) and will potentially be called Health+, so I’m guessing (if he is right) that it will be optional and perhaps part of Fitness+ or some other subscription. So, likely not mandatory.