Landmark reads Apple Health and nothing else. There is no Apple Watch app to pair and no account to link: whatever your watch records in Health, Landmark can read, once you allow it.
What Apple Watch records in Apple Health
From Apple's own support pages, read October 10, 2026:
- Activity: exercise minutes "and other activity metrics" (Track daily activity with Apple Watch). Your iPhone counts steps, distance and flights on its own too (Intro to Health data on iPhone).
- Heart rate: Apple says periodic heart rate measurements "are automatically sent from Apple Watch to Health" (Manage Health data).
- Cardio fitness, Apple's name for VO₂ max, from outdoor walks, runs and hikes on Series 3 or later (Track your cardio fitness levels).
- Sleep: time asleep and time in each stage (Track your overnight and daytime vitals).
- Time in daylight, on Apple Watch SE (2nd generation), Series 6 or later, and any Ultra (See time spent in daylight).
- Mindfulness: Apple says the watch tracks "Mindfulness data" into Health (Manage Health data).
The habits it fills in Landmark
| Landmark habit | From |
|---|---|
| Steps, Walking + running distance, Flights climbed | Activity, from the watch or the iPhone |
| Exercise minutes | The watch's exercise minutes |
| Stand hours, Stand minutes | The watch's stand data |
| Active energy, Total energy | Active energy, plus resting energy for the total |
| Workouts, Strength, Running distance | Workouts you record on the watch |
| MET minutes | The intensity the watch records on a workout |
| Zone 1 to Zone 5 | Heart rate, with your date of birth in Health |
| Asleep by | Sleep |
| Time in daylight | Time in daylight |
| Mindful minutes | Mindfulness sessions |
As goals you watch rather than tasks you do, Landmark can follow your VO₂ max and Time asleep from the watch's readings.
Set it up
- On your iPhone, open Health, tap your picture, then Devices, pick your Apple Watch and check Privacy Settings: Fitness Tracking, and Heart Rate and Time in Daylight on the watch, should be on.
- Open Landmark and allow it to read the categories you want tracked. You can change that later in Health, under Sharing, then Apps.
Worth knowing
- Time in daylight, exercise minutes and stand data come only from Apple Watch. An iPhone on its own fills Steps and the distance habits.
- Zone minutes need your date of birth in Health. Without it, the zone habits say so and read nothing.
- Landmark only reads. It never writes anything back to Health.
