How to connect Nike Run Club to Apple Fitness
Nike Run Club has no Apple Fitness setting. Turn on Apple Health in NRC and your runs show up in Fitness and Health. The exact steps and what syncs.
Nike Run Club is a lovely place to start running and a poor place to look back at a year. The fix is to let it write every run to Apple Health, where the Fitness app and any stats app can read it.
Apple Fitness or Apple Health?
You won't find an Apple Fitness option in Nike Run Club, and you don't need one. The Fitness app on your iPhone shows the workouts saved in Apple Health, so once Nike Run Club writes to Health, your runs appear in Fitness as well.
Turn on Health in Nike Run Club
- Open Nike Run Club.
- Tap your profile, then Settings.
- Tap Partners, then Apple Health.
- Turn on Save workouts to Health (the wording varies slightly by version) and tap Allow on the Apple Health sheet.
Runs you record from now on appear in Health as Running workouts with distance, duration and heart rate if you used a sensor or an Apple Watch.
Apple Watch
If you run with the Nike Run Club watch app, the same setting applies. The watch app hands the run to the phone app, which writes it to Health.
What to do with the runs
Health now has your runs but still shows one Walking + Running distance. To see a running only total, a heatmap of the year, and your shoe mileage, open Runtile. It reads the Nike Run Club workouts from Health and does the rest.
Questions
Is there a separate Apple Fitness setting in Nike Run Club?
No. The Fitness app lists the workouts saved in Apple Health, so turning on Apple Health in Nike Run Club is the only setting you need.
Do guided runs sync too?
Yes. Every run recorded by the app, guided or not, is written to Health as a Running workout.
Does Nike Run Club sync my shoe choice to Health?
No. Health has no concept of gear. Runtile assigns shoes on its own from the dates you started running in each pair.
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