Guide
Home Assistant’s own app can now share some Apple Health data, but it can’t send it reliably and regularly. Here are the main ways to get your data in, who each one suits, and how to set up the most complete option.
The short answer
Apple Health data lives only on your iPhone and Apple Watch, so an iPhone app has to send it to Home Assistant. Which app is best depends on how much you need:
With the subscription, Health Assistant Link keeps Home Assistant up to date automatically, about every 30 minutes, day and night. If a sync is missed, short gaps fill themselves in on the next one, so your history stays complete, and you can backfill up to 14 days any time. Add the Apple Watch app and its complication to your watch face to keep heart rate and sleep flowing overnight while your iPhone is locked.
Your options
Turn on Apple Health sensors in the Home Assistant app’s sensor settings. You get about 30 everyday metrics, such as heart rate, weight and last night’s sleep, each showing its latest value. It’s free and needs nothing extra installed.
An iPhone and Apple Watch app with the Health Bridge integration, built only for Home Assistant. It sends 90+ metrics with their original times, backfills history, and adds a sleep stage timeline, workouts, medications, dashboard cards and two-way sync.
A general export app for cloud drives, REST APIs, MQTT, email and Home Assistant. Its Home Assistant export sends health metrics as sensor states. It suits people sending data to several places.
Setup
Add Health Bridge from HACS, the Home Assistant Community Store, then restart Home Assistant.
Download Health Assistant Link from the App Store and allow access to the Apple Health data you want to share.
Add the Health Bridge integration in Home Assistant, choose a secret token, and enter your Home Assistant URL and the same token in the app. The full setup guide walks through each screen.
Pick the metrics to sync. They appear as entities such as sensor.steps_yourname, ready for dashboards and automations. Add the built-in Health Bridge cards or copy a dashboard tile for a quick start.
Reliable syncing
iOS limits what any app can read while your iPhone is locked, and how often it can run in the background. A few settings make a big difference:
FAQ
Partly. The official Home Assistant app can now share about 30 everyday Apple Health metrics as sensors, each showing its latest value, but it can’t send them reliably and regularly. For every reading with its original time, history backfill, workouts, medications and two-way sync, use a dedicated app such as Health Assistant Link.
Yes. The official Home Assistant app's Apple Health sensors are free. Health Assistant Link is also free to download and sync manually; automatic background syncing is an optional subscription.
Not with Health Assistant Link. Data travels directly from your iPhone to your own Home Assistant, with no account, third-party server or cloud storage.
Yes. Home Assistant records each value it receives. Health Assistant Link sends readings with their original Apple Health time, at up to 30-second detail for the last two hours, and can backfill up to 14 days of missing history, so graphs follow what actually happened.
With the Health Assistant Link subscription, yes. Syncing runs automatically in the background, day and night, and the Apple Watch app, Home Screen widgets and iOS Shortcuts add more ways to keep data flowing, including while your iPhone is locked when the Apple Watch app is paired.
Yes, with Health Assistant Link. You can pair a numeric Home Assistant entity, such as a smart scale's weight, with a writable Apple Health metric.
