Syncing Fitness Tracker with AARP Now to earn Rewards points
I see that you can sync your fitness tracker to the AARP Now app and earn Rewards points for hitting fitness milestones. However when you drill down to the instructions it says you need v3.20 of the AARP Now app to sync the fitness tracker, yet my Apple App Store only has v3.19. I have AARP support looking into this but wondering if anyone else has been able to find v3.20 and/or sync their fitness tracker (specifically Apple Health on the iPhone).
First time I knew the iphone was tracking my steps since I first bought it a few years ago! Only problem is, the health app has a few hundred entries for each day. I have no idea why it breaks it up that way.
I did find a free app that will let you export the data to the numbers app or Excel. It is called QS Access. Only problem is it will export the whole table of data in your health app, but you can limit it to steps. Use Air Drop to move it to a MacbBook for easier manipulation, so you can copy the current day, previous day or whatever to its own spreadsheet and add a sum formula to see what your total number of steps are for the day.
First time I knew the iphone was tracking my steps since I first bought it a few years ago! Only problem is, the health app has a few hundred entries for each day. I have no idea why it breaks it up that way.
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Russell, at the bottom of the health app screen, you should see 4 options ... Health Data, Today, Sources, and Medical Data. Click on Today. This should take you to a screen that shows a consolidated total of all steps for the day. If you then click on steps, there is the option for "show all data" which is the screen you are seeing with the hundreds of entries for the day. Click the "back" button in upper left to go back to the consolidated totals screen.
First time I knew the iphone was tracking my steps since I first bought it a few years ago! Only problem is, the health app has a few hundred entries for each day. I have no idea why it breaks it up that way.
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Russell, at the bottom of the health app screen, you should see 4 options ... Health Data, Today, Sources, and Medical Data. Click on Today. This should take you to a screen that shows a consolidated total of all steps for the day. If you then click on steps, there is the option for "show all data" which is the screen you are seeing with the hundreds of entries for the day. Click the "back" button in upper left to go back to the consolidated totals screen.
Thanks. I looked for the app but i couldn't find it. I was accessing the data through the settings screen. Found the app tucked away in a group called entertainment! That's much easier. Now I need to get back outside. I am about 600 steps short!
3.20 is available in the app store for as of this morning. I have upgraded the app, but I still do not see where to sync my apple watch on AARP NOW. can anyone help?
Open the app, then click on the AARP tab on the bottom right. That page should have your point total, click on that and it takes you to the page that allows you to sync your fitness.
So, I downloaded the new App, relogged in and selected the AARP card on the bottom right corner. This time AARP rewards was listed right in the middle of the screen. .... and I clicked on it and from there it allowed me to choose my tracker (apple health) and it synched up nearly immedately.
I completed over 10,000 steps yesterday and linked my fitbit to AARP on the same day. It shows I have a liked device after clicking on "manage your fitbit >" found on the earn page. I hope to try to get 10,000 steps again today, but, I can't be sure that I will be able to test it.
@andrewtoo Yes we are seeing users earning the ftitness bonus from Fitbit. Hopefully, you will see them tomorrow if not let me know so we can help sort it out for you.
I updated the AARP Now app on my iPhone as the 3.2 version was now available and needed updating. Still no sync up. After reading over this topic, I finally deleted my newly updated app and reinstalled it, requiring a log in with password. That seemed to do the trick for me and I received bonus points for downloading the app! Now to see if I earn any points for my steps, but that requires taking a few more than I did yesterday. Does anyone know if other activies are combined or do you have to meet a specific number of steps or specific number of cycling miles to gain reward points???
Oops, I should add that I was using the iPhone "Health" app to record my activity. Wasn't much yesterday as I went to see the Downton Abbey movie, LOL!
I don't know if this topic is only about apple product syncing, but, I didn't see anything about syncing a fitbit. It seemed to sync, but, I had already met the 10,000 bonus level and I haven't seen any points for it in my transaction history yet. I'll try to be patient, though, it is the first day.
Will tracker points be exempt from the daily point limit, as it was in rewards for good?
Apparently we have to wait until AARP Now v3.20 is available. Then you can sync your Apple Health app with the AARP Now app. The Apple Health app pulls from your Apple Watch.
@p439300g Have you gone to the Earn page, hit the “Add a fitness tracker” link and select a fitness tracker from the pop-up menu. Then, you’ll need to separately go into its app and give it permission to share data with AARP Rewards.
@JonathanM243209 Make sure your fitness tracker is still connected -- head to the Earn page (http://www.aarp.org/rewards/earn), hit the “Add a fitness tracker” link and select a fitness tracker from the pop-up menu. Then, you’ll need to separately go into its app and give it permission to share data with AARP Rewards. If it's already properly connected, let me know how many days you are missing points for, and I can make that adjustment.
