Fourteeners Journal + Apple Health

Fourteeners Journal can attach compatible hike and workout information from Apple Health to a Journal entry.

The basic path is:

Recording app → Apple Health → Fourteeners Journal

Fourteeners Journal does not connect directly to Strava or AllTrails.

What Fourteeners Journal can read

When available through Apple Health, Fourteeners Journal may display information such as:

  • workout date and time
  • duration
  • distance
  • active energy
  • heart rate
  • effort information
  • workout route data

The exact information available depends on what the recording app writes into Apple Health and what permissions you have granted.

Health access is read-only

Fourteeners Journal requests read access only to the Health information it needs.

It does not create or modify workouts in Apple Health.

It does not write route data, heart-rate data, distance, or energy information back to Health.

If Health access is unavailable or later revoked, your Journal entry, notes, dates, and photographs remain unaffected.

Route maps and workout metrics are separate

A workout can exist in Apple Health without an associated GPS route.

That means you may see:

metrics + map
or
metrics only
in Fourteeners Journal.

If the source app provides the workout but does not provide an accessible HealthKit route, FJ cannot reconstruct the missing GPS track from distance or other workout metrics alone.

Strava

In controlled testing, Strava workouts recorded using both Apple Watch and iPhone provided:

  • workout metrics
  • an accessible HealthKit workout route
  • route coordinates that Fourteeners Journal could draw on a map

As a result, those test workouts displayed metrics + map in FJ.

Availability can still vary depending on how the original activity was recorded and what Strava sends to Apple Health.

For example, an activity originally recorded by another device or service and later imported into Strava may not expose the same HealthKit data as an activity recorded directly by Strava.

AllTrails

In controlled testing, AllTrails workouts recorded from both Apple Watch and iPhone provided workout records and metrics to Apple Health, but did not expose associated HealthKit workout-route objects to Fourteeners Journal.

As a result, those workouts displayed:

metrics only

FJ was not rejecting bad AllTrails route data; there was simply no HealthKit route object available for FJ to query.

A note about Apple Fitness maps

The presence or absence of a map in the Apple Fitness app is not a reliable indicator of whether Fourteeners Journal can read a third-party route from HealthKit.

In our controlled testing:

  • Strava workouts showed no map in Apple Fitness
  • the same Strava workouts did expose valid HealthKit route coordinates to Fourteeners Journal
  • FJ displayed those routes successfully

So:

No map in Apple Fitness does not necessarily mean no route is available to FJ.

Why does one workout have a map and another not?

The most common reasons are:

  • the source app wrote a workout but not a route
  • the route was not made available through HealthKit
  • the activity was imported into the source app from another service
  • Health permissions differ between apps or devices
  • the workout exists, but one or more metric types are unavailable

FJ displays what Apple Health makes available. It does not infer or manufacture missing workout data.

Apple Watch vs iPhone

The device listed as the HealthKit writing source does not always identify the device that actually recorded the workout.

In testing, a Strava workout recorded on Apple Watch could still appear in HealthKit as written by the iPhone-side Strava app.

So source-device metadata should not be treated as a definitive indicator of recording origin.

That is normal enough that we would not expose it prominently in the app UI.

Troubleshooting: I see metrics but no map

If an attached workout shows distance, duration, or other metrics but no route map:

  1. Confirm that the workout appears in Apple Health.
  2. Confirm Fourteeners Journal still has permission to read workout and route data.
  3. Check whether the recording app normally writes routes to HealthKit.
  4. If the workout came from AllTrails, note that our current testing found metrics but no accessible HealthKit routes.
  5. If the workout came from Strava, the route may be available even if Apple Fitness does not display it.

If the source app did not provide an accessible route to HealthKit, Fourteeners Journal cannot create one after the fact.

Troubleshooting: I cannot find the workout at all

Check:

  • Apple Health permissions for Fourteeners Journal
  • whether the recording app is configured to write workouts to Apple Health
  • whether the workout has finished syncing
  • whether the workout type and date match what you are looking for

Health permissions can be changed through Apple’s Health settings.

Moving to a new iPhone

Your FJ backup preserves the reference linking a Journal entry to its associated workout.

It does not contain the underlying Apple Health workout, route, heart-rate samples, or other Health data.

After moving to another device, the corresponding workout must also exist in Apple Health on that device for its Health information to remain available in FJ.

Your Journal text, dates, outcomes, and photographs remain available even if the Health workout does not.

Privacy

Fourteeners Journal does not transmit your Apple Health workout or route data to Oberon Works.

Health information is read on-device for use inside the app and in user-initiated sharing where applicable.

For more information:

Read the Fourteeners Journal Privacy Policy

Need help?

If a particular workout behaves unexpectedly, contact:

Oberon Works
support@oberonworks.studio

It can be helpful to include:

  • recording app
  • whether you recorded on Apple Watch or iPhone
  • approximate workout date/time
  • whether FJ shows metrics, a map, both, or neither

Avoid sending sensitive Health details unless they are necessary to troubleshoot the issue.