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Title: Peloton Is Dropping Apple Watch GymKit Support Post by: HCK on February 14, 2024, 04:05:17 pm Peloton Is Dropping Apple Watch GymKit Support
Peloton is dropping support for Apple GymKit in favor of Peloton One-Tap tracking, the fitness equipment company revealed to users in an email on Monday. (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2020/09/peloton-bike-plus-treadmill-gymkit.jpg) The change is most likely to irk existing Bike+ owners who originally purchased the $2,495 stationary workout bike based on the premise that GymKit was an exclusive perk (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/08/peloton-announces-bike-gymkit-support/). While GymKit has become less important since Peloton rolled out Apple Watch integration to all its fitness equipment in 2022, GymKit offered additional integration with Apple Health that isn't available with Peloton's solution. Peloton's app does most of the things that GymKit offers, including tracking things like distance, pace, and heart rate metrics, and showing them live on Peloton screens. Only a subset of that data will, however, now sync to Apple Health in the absence of GymKit support. Apple introduced GymKit as part of watchOS 4.1, which was released back in October 2017. Update: As noted (https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/32935433) by forum member Eradik and others on Reddit, (https://www.reddit.com/r/pelotoncycle/comments/1ape43k/apple_gymkit_no_longer_supported_as_of_227/) Peloton's app syncs only basic data to Apple Health. Data like cadence and average speed and power are not synced, meaning that the loss of GymKit support may have a substantial impact for some users.<div class="linkback">Tags: GymKit (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/gymkit/), Peloton (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/peloton/)</div> This article, "Peloton Is Dropping Apple Watch GymKit Support (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/13/peloton-losing-apple-watch-gymkit-support/)" first appeared on MacRumors.com (https://www.macrumors.com) Discuss this article (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/peloton-is-dropping-apple-watch-gymkit-support.2419319/) in our forums Source: Peloton Is Dropping Apple Watch GymKit Support (https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/13/peloton-losing-apple-watch-gymkit-support/) |