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Guide
Your Apple Health data, out of your iPhone.
The Health app makes one file of everything it holds: export.zip. This is how you make it, what is inside, and what Syncera does with it.
Make the export
Open the Health app and tap your picture or initials at the top right. If you do not see them, tap Summary at the bottom and scroll to the top. Tap Export All Health Data and confirm. After a few years with a watch this takes a while. Then choose where the file goes, for example Files, or AirDrop to your computer.
What is inside
One zip. The heart of it is export.xml: every reading, night and session, as XML. Beside it, if you have them, a folder of routes as GPX files, a folder of ECGs as CSV files, and export_cda.xml, part of the same data in a clinical format. Unpacked, it can run to gigabytes. Nothing in it is encrypted, so keep it as you would a medical file.
Bring it into Syncera
On the web, open Settings, then Integrations, and choose your export.zip at Apple Health. Upload it as it is: big exports are fine, the import reads them in parts. What Syncera already has is not added twice, and the file you uploaded is deleted the moment the import finishes.
With an iPhone, skip the file
An export is a snapshot, and it carries less than Syncera's iPhone app sends: no ECGs, no day totals and no curves inside a session. The iPhone app reads Health with your permission and keeps sending what is new. Use both if you like; what both bring is counted once.
Where Syncera does not help
Syncera reads export.xml and the routes. It does not read the ECG files or export_cda.xml, and the laps a device marks are not read yet. What never reached Health is not in the export either: an app that does not write to Health keeps its data to itself. And Syncera does not turn the export into a spreadsheet; if a CSV file is what you need, look for a tool made for that.