It writes to Health. It reads nothing.
Turn it on and what you log in Foodia shows up in the Health app alongside the rest of your data. In the other direction, nothing happens: Foodia never looks at your Health data.
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- Calories
- Protein
- Carbs
- Fat
- Water
One direction, deliberately
Plenty of apps ask for full Health access “to improve your experience” and end up reading your heart rate, your steps or your sleep. Foodia asks for write permission on five things, and that permission is all it needs to work.
Turning it on and off
It's off until you switch it on, and it can be switched off from outside the app whenever you want.
- 1
Turn it on in Foodia
Under Profile → Sync with Health. iOS will ask you to confirm what it's allowed to write.
- 2
Log as usual
Every meal and every glass of water you record gets copied to Health. Nothing else to do.
- 3
Revoke it whenever
From Settings → Health → App access. That's iOS, not us: you don't have to ask us for it.
Exactly what it writes
Five kinds of data, the ones you log yourself. Nothing else leaves Foodia for Health, and what does get written stays on your device: it never comes back to our servers or goes to third parties.
- Calories from what you log.
- Protein, carbs and fat.
- Water.
- Nothing else: not your weight, not your measurements, not your photos.
What we never do
The Health permission is among the most sensitive iOS grants, so it's worth stating plainly where the line is.
- We never read your Health data: not steps, not sleep, not heart rate, not weight.
- We never use Health data for advertising, and never share it with anyone.
- What we write there is never sent to our servers.
- Your weight and measurements stay inside Foodia and don't go to Health.
Questions about Apple Health
Can Foodia see my steps or my sleep?
No. Foodia only asks for write permission. Even if you granted read access from Settings, the app doesn't query any of your Health data.
What happens to what's already written if I turn syncing off?
It stays in Health, because from that point it's your data inside Apple's app. You can delete it from the Health app itself if you'd rather it wasn't there.
Does it work with a scale or watch that already writes to Health?
They coexist fine, each writing its own thing. Foodia doesn't read what the others write, so it won't create duplicates.
Do I need it on to use Foodia?
No. It's optional and off by default. Foodia works the same without granting any Health permission.
What gets synced
Your data, where you decide
It's free to download and includes five days with every feature unlocked.
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