Wear OS 5’s Health Apps Introduces More Ways to Track Your Runs
Google’s wearables could start collecting far more detailed information about your runs. These Health Services updates could include context like ground contact time and stride length. There are also a bunch more metrics app developers could use in the new OS update, including the ability to read your health data while the app is in the background without the user needing to open the app. Users can grant apps access to their health data for their entire history using Health Connect, and not just in the past 30 days. That should be available sometime later this year.
