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Samsung Health keeps disconnecting from Strava Service

  • February 15, 2023
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Hello, My Samsung Health app connection to Strava service keeps disconnecting from time to time

This is very annoying and is reported by many users since 2021, someone can find a fix please?

Cheers!

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Jane
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  • Strava Alumni
  • February 22, 2023

Hello @Jmmol 

Thanks for posting about this.  Can you confirm that the workouts that are not syncing contain GPS data?  Indoor workouts or activities that do not contain GPS information will not push to Strava from Samsung Health. 

Another thing to check:

Check and confirm that you are using the most recent version of Strava and you have updated Samsung Health to the latest versions.

If you're still having problems after that, please go ahead and do a manual disconnect/reconnect:  Disconnect Strava from Samsung Health. On the Samsung Health App, go to Menu (the 3 lines top left) > Settings (gear icon) > Connected Services. Tap Strava and confirm to Disconnect. Once disconnected, go ahead and reconnect by following the directions on Samsung Health and confirming your account information.

Please let me know if any of that helps.

 

 


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  • Hub Starter
  • February 23, 2023

Actually it is disconnected automatically from Samsung health after several days. We have to repeat to connect again and again.

The workouts could be synced when the two accounts keep connecting.


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  • Hub Rookie
  • February 23, 2023

Yes that's exactly what's going on, Anyone from Strava has a solution or workaround? Thanks


Jane
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  • Strava Alumni
  • February 23, 2023

Hello @Jmmol  and @GravityMsc 

Thanks for your replies.  I'm going to ask you both to submit a ticket to our support Team so we can work directly with you.  

Please submit a support ticket and we’ll be happy to investigate further.


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  • Hub Starter
  • March 22, 2023

Facing the same issue. Strava keeps disconnecting from Samsung Health


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  • Hub Starter
  • April 4, 2023

Hello, the same old-recurring-issue-with-no-fix-so-far here. I really don't know what communities are for other than checking suggestions for improvements or needed fixes, sending them to the developers and implementing them.
Lupo


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  • Hub Starter
  • April 16, 2023

My wife and I have the exact same issue with it disconnecting automatically and having to reconnect. Very frustrating.


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  • Hub Starter
  • May 23, 2023

Same issue for me. 


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I am having the same issue.  Sometimes even once reconnected my Samsung health activity still doesn't sync.


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  • Hub Starter
  • July 1, 2023

Same issue with me using the Galaxy watch 5 to record my runs. I connect to strava through Samsung health then after a few day it disconnects and you have to re connect again. No sure if it's Samsung or Steava causing the problem. 


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  • Hub Starter
  • July 21, 2023

I have a very similar issue. This has been happening periodically now for a year or so. I use Samsung health synced to my strava account several times a week, mostly for walks and cycling.

Periodically the sync over to strava breaks and there are 3 scenarios that then happen.

1 - I just toggle it back on in samsung health / settings / services and all is well again

2- As above but I also have to log back into strava again - but then it's fine

3 - the login to strava doesn't work and it goes onto a full login process with 2 factor authentication. (Which i don't actually need to do with strava normally) If this happens, i know it isn't going to work. And also I can be logged in just fine to strava at the same time, but it makes no difference.

Usually a few days later it just corrects itself and its all fine again for a while.

I am currently locked out having had a walk one morning a week ago that did sync but my afternoon cycle didn't sync and the login process was back to not working - scenario 3. This is about the fourth time this has happened and its getting pretty annoying. I'm not exactly an elite athlete but I am using this to track my exercise regime following a heart attack, so it's important to me.

My take is samsung and strava know about this glitch. There is too much about this online and the fact that it just mysteriously rights itself without action by me other than constantly trying to log back in over and over again says to me there is an update happening somewhere that sorts it out. This has to be a software problem, surely.


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  • Hub Starter
  • July 22, 2023

Hi I have solved the problem, I use the health sync app. It sends my data from Samsung to strava perfectly.  I would give it a try, I gave disconnected steava and Samsung in Samsung health .


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  • Hub Starter
  • December 21, 2023

same here on galaxy watch 5. workouts I record with the strava app on the watch will show up in Samsung health but often my workouts done with other devices like my phone and a heart rate monitor etc won't sync back from strava to samsung health because the connection always automatically disconnects. 


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  • Hub Starter
  • March 5, 2024

Did this ever get resolved? I'm getting the same issue a year later.

 


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  • Author
  • Hub Rookie
  • March 5, 2024

March 2024 and this still happening! Very annoying:-(


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  • Author
  • Hub Rookie
  • March 5, 2024

Last year I entered the ticket, you closed it as resolved , BUT there was nothing done to fix it! The issue still there

https://support.strava.com/hc/requests/2612295


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  • Hub Rookie
  • March 5, 2024

This action does not fix the issue, even after reconnected as suggested, the service disconnects again after some random number of days


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  • Hub Starter
  • March 25, 2024

Confirmed. GPS track available.  The app just keeps losing authorization with Strava.


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  • Hub Starter
  • March 30, 2024

I eventually used an additional app called Health Sync to connect the two and it has worked problem free ever since.  In fact it is actually better because other activities that don't sync such as gym sessions also sync over.


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  • Hub Starter
  • April 20, 2024

Tried to contact strava.... biggest waste of time ever. 


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  • Hub Starter
  • July 28, 2024

I've had this for years. Very frustrating. Strava, please. I have Garmin and never happens. Only for Samsung Galaxy watch. Your preference shows.  Common. Show us some love. Please.

 

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  • Hub Starter
  • November 28, 2024

Still a very frustrating issue.


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  • Hub Starter
  • February 19, 2025

Was considering upgrading my strava account, now I will be deleting it. Strava clearly have no interest is resolving thr issue so I have no interest in using strava anymore