Why is Pokémon GO not counting my steps?

Question

I don't understand. I've set it so my Apple Health app can give it my step count, and I downloaded the Fitness app. I've made it so Pokemon Go always counts my steps; I've turned Adventure Sync off then back on; made sure my Pokemon Go app is updated as much as possible, waited for over 12 hours, I even tried reseting my phone. It's simply not working. Should I download another step counting app? What else can I try?

Comments

If you want me to turn this into an answer, Pokemon Go doesn't count steps, Apple Health does. In my experience, Go will count kilometers for stuff like hatching eggs. Also I believe the fitness app only makes you do a workout(Benefits of having an Apple Watch 7)

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Yes I know but they info isn't transferring from Health into Pogo

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I don’t think it should do that. It is YOUR personal information,after all. Plus Pokemon Go is a third party app, or you turned off a specific setting when you first started. I’m just spitballing.

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I refreshed game data and fiddled with the settings a bit and it’s working now thank you for the help

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should i put this into an answer?

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Why is this flagged?

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I dont know

Answer 1

It might be because:
1). It's a third party app and Apple Health doesn't respond to third party apps.
2). It's a third party app and you turned off a specific setting.
Those are the only things I can think of, but it turns out you did turn off a specific setting(Check comments)