Apple Health is the widest connection Beacon has. Most of what the coach knows about your body arrives through it — including data your Oura ring or Whoop strap wrote to Health first.
What Beacon reads
With your permission, Beacon reads:
- Workouts — type, duration, heart-rate samples, route and the device that recorded them.
- Sleep — stages as your watch or ring recorded them.
- Heart — heart rate, resting heart rate, heart-rate variability, heart-rate recovery, VO₂ max.
- Body — weight, lean body mass, body-fat percentage, height.
- Daily activity — steps, distance, flights climbed, active energy.
- Other vitals — blood oxygen, respiratory rate, body temperature, blood pressure.
- Nutrition — energy, protein, carbohydrate and fat from whatever app you log in.
What Beacon writes back
Two things, and only two:
- Workouts you record in Beacon, written as you finish the session, with their active energy.
- Cycle logs and symptoms you enter in Beacon.
Nothing else is written. If you log a weigh-in or a glass of water in Beacon, it stays in Beacon.
Your whole history, not a window
Most connections import 90 days. Apple Health is the exception: Beacon pages back through your entire history, oldest data included, and reconciles the last week regularly to catch anything that arrived late. The import pauses while you're in a live session so it never competes with the workout you're doing.
Connecting
There's nothing to sign in to. Beacon asks for Health permissions in the app, and iOS shows you the list. Every category is optional — decline any of them and the rest still work, with less for the coach to reason about.
To change or revoke access later, use the Health app: Health → Sharing → Apps → Beacon. iOS owns that switch, so it isn't something Beacon can turn off from inside the app.
Good to know
- HRV here is SDNN, the measure Apple records. Whoop and Oura report RMSSD. Both are heart-rate variability; they are different numbers and Beacon keeps them apart rather than averaging them into a single line.
- Data written by other apps is credited to them. If your Oura ring wrote last night's sleep into Health, Beacon attributes it to Oura, not to Apple Health — so connecting Oura directly doesn't create a duplicate.
- The connected badge means the permission prompt was answered, not that you granted anything. If you tapped "Don't Allow", Beacon still shows Apple Health as connected and simply receives nothing. If the coach seems blind to your data, check the Health app first.