If you use a Galaxy Watch and noticed that your workouts stopped showing up in other apps, without changing any settings, the problem probably isn't your watch or the app that stopped receiving them. It's Samsung Health.
What happened
Health Connect is the hub on Android where health apps share data with each other. Samsung Health writes to it, and other apps read from it. Starting with a July 2026 update - reported by users on version 7.00.0.107 - Samsung Health kept writing some types of data and stopped writing others.
- Still coming through: steps, heart rate, sleep, weight.
- No longer coming through: exercise sessions and workouts - running, strength training, swimming, cycling.
The detail that sends most people looking in the wrong place is exactly this: because steps keep syncing, the connection seems to be working. The other app shows activity, it shows heart rate, and only the workout is missing. It feels like the problem is with that one workout, or with that one app.
It isn't. The same report shows up across many different apps that rely on Health Connect, and on Samsung's own forums, in both the US and the European communities, since July.
How to confirm this is what's happening
- 1Open the Health Connect app on your phone (on recent phones it's in Settings, under Security and privacy, then Health Connect).
- 2Go to Data and access, then Activity, then Exercise.
- 3Tap See all entries.
- 4Check the date of the most recent entry that came from Samsung Health.
If the last exercise entry is from July, or if the list is empty while the steps list is full and up to date, it's the problem described here. No permission change will fix it, because permissions aren't what's blocking it - the data simply isn't being written.
What you can do
The fix is in Samsung's hands, and it has already reached some users: reports indicate that version 7.00.5.009 of Samsung Health started writing workouts again. It's worth checking whether yours is up to date.
- 1Open the Play Store and search for Samsung Health.
- 2If you see an Update button, update it.
- 3Open Samsung Health once and let it sync with your watch.
- 4Record a short workout and check whether it shows up in Health Connect.
If updating doesn't fix it, disconnecting and reconnecting Samsung Health in Health Connect often forces it to write again. Just keep in mind that this doesn't recover what was missed: the period when Samsung Health wasn't writing stays empty, because that data never made it to the other side.
And in Biomapa
Biomapa reads Health Connect, so it's affected like any other app - if Samsung Health doesn't write, there's nothing to read. That's why the app has a second path for Galaxy users: a direct connection to Samsung Health, without going through Health Connect, that brings in workouts, VO2 max and calories burned. It works even when the Health Connect bridge is broken, and you turn it on in the Connections panel.
To be upfront: this direct connection depends on Samsung approving each app, which is why not every app on the market has it. If you use another app that only reads Health Connect, there's nothing it can do until Samsung fixes the problem.