Ask About Your Sleep, Steps, and Workouts Through Health Connect
If you use an Android phone, your muse can read health records that sync from it through Health Connect, so you can ask about sleep, activity, and workouts in plain words.
What it does
Health Connect gathers records from your Android phone, apps, and wearables that share with it. Your muse reads what synced in three groups: daily metrics, returned as rollups by hour, day, or week; sleep sessions, one per night; and workout sessions, one per workout. Ask for a trend and it works from the rollups for the dates you name. Ask about one night or workout and it returns that session, with local start and end times. It can also read raw samples, such as heart rate points or a sleep stage timeline. Before answering, it checks which categories have synced and over what date range. If coverage is incomplete, it says results are partial and can sync the missing range before you read a gap as a quiet day. Reads run without asking. Deleting synced records asks for fresh approval every time.
How to use it
- Check your phone is online. New data cannot sync from an offline phone.
- If permission is missing, approve the Health Connect prompt on your phone. The first sync covers the last seven days.
- Ask what has synced first: which categories are present and what dates they cover.
- Start with a trend you can check: "Show my daily steps for last week," and compare it with the app.
- For sleep, include the evening before the night you mean, because a night starts then: "How did I sleep last night?"
What you need
- A muse account
- An Android phone with Health Connect, with syncing allowed for Muse
- Records in Health Connect to read
What to watch for
- This connection serves Android phones only. An iPhone uses Apple Health instead, and the daily metric names differ between the two.
- A partial sync looks like missing activity. If coverage is incomplete, sync the range and ask again before reading a gap as a rest day.
- Records from more than one device are never added together. The muse keeps them separate, and so should you.
- Deleting synced records cannot be undone and removes every record kind in the range at once. Records still in Health Connect can return with a later sync. Disconnecting does not delete records already synced.
- Health answers describe records, they do not diagnose. Take a worrying pattern to a clinician. The muse prepares, you decide.