Huawei watches now work with Strava

Huawei announces that its smartwatches and fitness trackers will now work with the popular sports app Strava. The Strava app is not yet available on Huawei smartwatches, but you can link your Strava account with the Huawei Health app. We explain how it works.

Huawei Health and Strava

Huawei watches such as the Watch GT 3 boast a number of strengths such as beautiful designs, good battery life and the excellent Huawei Health app. An important disadvantage is that Harmony OS works with fewer third-party apps and services than Wear OS. Huawei and Strava have now announced an integration in the Huawei Health app, Huawei announced in a press release.

You can now sync your activity data from Huawei Health with Strava. The advantage is that this Strava integration works with all wearables from Huawei, including the affordable Band 7, which we were able to test recently.

This is how you connect Strava

Below we explain how to connect Strava in Huawei Health.

1. Log in to the Huawei Health app
2. Tap on Me
3. Scroll down and select Privacy management
4. Select Data sharing and authorization
   
5. Choose Strava
   
6. Press Connect to Strava
   
7. You will then be directed to the Strava website where you must enter your Strava account details and log in to your account.
8. Allow the Huawei Health app to connect to your Strava account by clicking Authorize

Huawei sees the integration with Strava as a useful extra feature for users, but not as a replacement for Huawei Health. “Huawei Health continues to be the recommended platform for our smartwatch users to comprehensively track their health and fitness activities,” said Mathieu Teeuwen, head of retail marketing Huawei Benelux. “We are also aware of the popularity of Strava, especially its community and sharing capabilities.”

Previously, there was already a way to synchronize your data from Huawei Health with Strava, but that worked via a less convenient detour, namely this Health Sync app. A direct integration makes things much more accessible to a larger group of users. Do you have a Huawei smartwatch and are you looking forward to using it with Strava? Let us know in the comments.

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