Peloton has updated their integrations with Apple Health & Apple Fitness, and now exports additional workout metrics & information to Apple.

This includes cycling cadence, cycling power, cycling speed, running power, running speed, and walking speed.

Peloton has promoted this update through a in-app push notification, with the headline of “Share more metrics with Apple Health and Fitness”. It goes on to say that:

“Got a Peloton Bike or Tread? Now you can share cadence, power, and speed with Apple Health and Fitness. Turn on these metrics under Allow “Peloton” to Write in your device’s settings.”

As the message hints, you can enable these additional metrics via the settings. On your phone, you can find it by going to the main Settings App -> Privacy & Security -> Health -> Peloton. There, you should see every setting available – and the new ones will be set to Off by default, and you can toggle them on.

Alternatively, in the Peloton app, you can click your Profile image on the bottom right, then use the hamburger menu in the top right. In the “More” Menu that appears, there should be an option under “Add-Ons” for “Health App”. Clicking that will present a popup about the Apple Health App, with a button for “Connect to Health App”. If you click that – it should then pop up a screen showing only the new metrics, where you can easily toggle them on.

This integration with Apple Health & Fitness is made possible through the Peloton app. The Peloton app first added Apple Health integration back in 2019. It allowed for the export of basic information – workouts, heart rate, activate energy, and distance. That integration has remained basically unchanged until now.

This week, Peloton updated their app to export even more detailed information about a workout. Before, when doing a cycling or running workout, the only detailed data you could see about your workout was your heart rate.

Now, you can see your cadence, power, and speed for cycling workouts. You can also see your power & speed for running workouts (or speed for walking).

This brings the data set provided by the Peloton app to match more closely the data provided with the Peloton Bike+ / GymKit integration.

Around this time last year, Peloton tried removing GymKit support only to reverse the decision a few days later based on backlash from the Peloton community. For those unfamiliar – Apple GymKit is a feature only available on the Peloton Bike+. With that feature, you physically tap an Apple Watch to the top of your Bike+ screen before starting a workout, and a different communication protocol is used for your heart rate & recording metrics to the Apple Health & Fitness apps. When the Peloton Bike+ first launched, this was the main way to use an Apple Watch as a heart rate monitor on the Bike+ – although Peloton enabled using Apple Watch as a heart rate monitor for all devices & class types in 2022 through the App.

Peloton had tried to present removing Apple GymKit support as a positive for the community – while GymKit is only available on Peloton Bike+, the Peloton App integration works across all hardware types. However, the Peloton community pointed out that, back then, workouts done using GymKit provided much more data than the basic information the Peloton App exported.

Now that Peloton appears to have overcome that difference between the two integrations – is it possible Peloton tries to remove GymKit again? Presumably, Apple GymKit integrations requires a licensing fee – and Peloton’s renewal could be up, given this update comes almost exactly one year from when they tried to remove the feature for the first time. There are still other differences – with a GymKit workout recording both active & total calories, as well as showing more data in the overview screen of the completed workout (but the detailed graphs on both versions are now the same).

Most of Peloton’s messaging around this new update did not mention GymKit either way. However, the support page talking about the new integration does specifically mention how these updates bring the feature set closer to GymKit, saying: “Additionally, Peloton has added more workout details to the Apple® Health App to provide fitness metrics similar to GymKit-enabled workouts.”

We will keep a close eye on this and share updates should anything change related to Peloton’s GymKit support. It would not be the first time Peloton has removed a feature if they were to do so, as Peloton used to have a video chat feature you could use in classes, which they removed in 2022.

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