Motion & Fitness is off

Turn it on in Privacy settings so Soma can count steps from your iPhone when you aren't wearing a watch.

Soma can count steps from your iPhone's own motion sensor, so a day without a watch still counts. If Motion & Fitness is off, that backup is gone.

Turn it back on

  1. Open Settings > Privacy & Security > Motion & Fitness.
  2. Turn on Soma.
  3. Open Soma again. Health access should show iPhone motion as On.

If the row says Restricted, Screen Time or a device management profile is blocking motion. Check Settings > Screen Time, or ask whoever manages the iPhone.

If it says Not on this device, this hardware has no step counter. Soma will still read steps from Apple Watch or another device that writes them to Health.

You turned off a permission covers Health, location, calendar and notifications the same way.

Didn't find what you need? Email quentin@somalabs.me with a screenshot, or search all of Help.