Apple Health is where your iPhone keeps the whole picture of you — steps, sleep, workouts, and yes, water. When Quenched is connected to it, hydration stops being an island: every drink you log shows up in Health next to everything else, and water you log anywhere else flows back into Quenched. One habit, one source of truth.
Setup takes about thirty seconds. Here's the full walkthrough, plus what two-way sync actually does and how to pause or disconnect it later.
Why bother syncing?
- One complete record. Your water sits alongside your activity and sleep in Health, where trends across your whole routine become visible.
- Every app stays in agreement. Log a bottle in a nutrition app, a smart-bottle app, or Siri — Quenched imports it, so your pool rises no matter where the water came from.
- Your history comes with you. If you tracked water in another app before switching to Quenched, connecting Health imports that existing water data — your averages and trends don't start from zero.
- It's free. Health sync is part of Quenched's free tier, not a paid upgrade.
Connect Apple Health in Quenched
If you connected Health during onboarding, you're already done — skip to the next section. Otherwise:
- Open Quenched and go to Settings.
- Scroll to the Apple Health section and tap Connect Apple Health.
- iOS shows the Health permission sheet. Turn on both read and write access for water, then tap Allow.
That's it. The section now shows a Sync with Apple Health toggle, switched on, and Quenched begins importing any water already in Health.
Tip: grant both directions. Read-only means Quenched can see other apps' water but your logs never reach Health; write-only means the opposite. Two-way is where the magic is.
What two-way sync does
From the moment you connect:
- Everything you log in Quenched is saved to Health — from your iPhone or your Apple Watch, whether it came from a quick-add button, the custom dial, or a widget.
- Edits and deletions follow along. Fix a mistaken entry in Quenched and Health is updated to match — no orphaned duplicates left behind.
- Water from other apps is imported and counts toward your daily goal, usually within moments of appearing in Health.
All of this happens on your device. Health data is read and written locally by the app — it never touches our servers, because there aren't any to touch. No account, no cloud middleman.
Pausing sync without disconnecting
Want a break — say, while testing another tracker — without redoing permissions? Flip Sync with Apple Health off in Quenched's Settings. While it's paused, drinks are not saved to Apple Health and water from other apps is not imported, on both iPhone and Apple Watch. Everything already in Health stays exactly as it is, Quenched keeps your full history, and you can turn syncing back on anytime.
Revoking access entirely
Health permissions belong to iOS, not to Quenched, so revoking them happens in Apple's settings: open the Health app → your profile picture → Apps → Quenched, or go to iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Quenched. Turn off whichever direction you like. If you later change your mind, Quenched's Settings will show a Health Access Is Off row that points you back to the right place.
Troubleshooting
- Drinks aren't appearing in Health? Check that write access is still granted (Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Quenched) and that the sync toggle in Quenched is on.
- Other apps' water isn't showing in Quenched? Same check, but for read access — and confirm the other app is actually writing to Health.
- On Android? Quenched does the same dance with Health Connect — here's the Android guide.
