Troubleshooting Activity Ring Credit

There are two steps to Slopes giving you ring credit. Slopes adding the information to Apple Health, and then the Fitness app using that data for your rings. 

If you're not seeing ring credit, or if the numbers aren't lining up, here's how to troubleshoot those two steps:

Slopes Saving to Apple Health

Verify that Slopes was able to save data into Apple Health to begin with. This should happen automatically when you end your day.

• Launch the Health app on your iPhone
• Tap Show All Health Data
• You should see a Workout with a Slopes icon for the day in question, tap on that.
• Scrolling down, verify the following:
  • Under Workout Samples you see Active Calories
  • Under Workout Events you see segments for each run you took

If you don't see all the data, odds are Slopes did not have permission to save Workout data to Apple Health while recording. Here's how to give Slopes the necessary permissions:

• Open the Health app
• Tap on your profile in the top right hand corner
• Tap on Apps
• Tap on Slopes and turn on the required permissions

If you see the data, but the calorie credits are 0, then your Apple Watch was unable to give Slopes calorie estimates.

This is usually due to the Watch not being able to get accurate heart rate readings. Check out Calories Seem Inaccurate (Apple Watch) for troubleshooting tips.

Count Slopes for Ring Credit

There are a ton of apps that can count toward ring credit on your phone (even the raw data from your iPhone and Apple Watch themselves), and Apple does a lot of work to make sure that if multiple things are running at the same time that they even things out instead of giving you double credit.

When they do this, they do it in order of priority, which you can tweak. This is the most common cause of the Fitness app saying "you burned 240 calories" when Slopes says "you burned 500 calories". This means that Slopes has been assigned a lower priority so Apple is ignoring its data.

To tweak this and give Slopes priority: 

• Launch the Health app on your iPhone
• Go to the Browse tab and tap on Activity → Active Energy
• Scroll right down and you'll see Data Sources & Access, tap that
• Tap the Edit button in the top right hand corner
• Drag Slopes up in the list, then hit Done

Apple usually doesn't give retroactive ring credit for past days, but if you recorded today, you should see your ring credit change within a minute or so at most.