Look in Privacy and Security settings.
There is a “Motion and and Fitness” button in this

First the checkbox at the top has to be on or else no apps can track your steps.
I then see that the following apps on my phone have access to motion and 
fitness:
• Health
• Seeing AI
• Sound Scape
• Transit    

> On Aug 12, 2023, at 3:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Interesting. I tried your suggestion, and it still didn’t work. It’s as 
> though I need my watch on for the health app to work on both my watch and my 
> phone.
> Strange. I walked a great deal yesterday, and my phone did not record one 
> step of it. Yet, when I had my watch on, and I looked at the health app via 
> my phone, it recorded the steps I took the day before.
> Go figure.
>  
>  
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
> Richard Turner
> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 7:37 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Tracking distance walked
>  
> Try putting your phone in your front pocket so it moves with each step and 
> see if that works.
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Richard, USA.
> “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.”  
> --  Jane Wagner from The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
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> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Jim 
> Portillo
> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 7:30 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Tracking distance walked
>  
> On a holster on my hip, or sometimes in my pocket.
> I was bummed because there was a weekend where I had gone on vacation 
> somewhere, and my apple watch wasn’t working for some reason, but my phone 
> was. I had walked about a million steps during those couple days, but they 
> never registered.
> 😊
>  
>  
> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of 
> Richard Turner
> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 7:28 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Tracking distance walked
>  
> Where do you carry your phone?
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Richard, USA.
> “Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.”  
> --  Jane Wagner from The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
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> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Jim 
> Portillo
> Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 7:26 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Tracking distance walked
>  
> You know what is interesting. I use the health app, but it only works for me 
> when I’m wearing my watch. If I don’t wear it, my iPhone won’t pick up my 
> steps. I’m not sure why.
> I look at my results on my phone, so I know that the phone is talking to the 
> watch.
> I wonder how I can fix this.
> Jim
>  
>  
> From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Chaltain
> Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 8:40 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Tracking distance walked
>  
> I don’t use it myself, but my wife gets this information out of the Health 
> app on her iPhone. She likes it because it’s always running.
>  
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> From: rhs via VIPhone <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 10:24 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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>  
> Hi,
>  
> I have Blind Square, Good Maps Outdoors, and Apple Maps on my iPhone.  I 
> would like to use one of them to measure the distance I have walked.  Is 
> there a way to do that?
>  
> Thanks.
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