Tracking Through Fitness & Health Apps

Someone uses fitness trackers, health apps, or wearable devices to monitor your location, activity patterns, sleep, and health data.

What You Might Notice

• The other person knows about your exercise routes or activity patterns

  They reference when and where you exercised, or your daily routine.

• Health or fitness data is being shared with their account

  Shared fitness challenges, family health accounts, or linked apps may expose your data.

• Your wearable shows locations or activity you didn't do

  Someone else may be accessing and viewing your tracker data remotely.

What You Can Do

This is not an exhaustive list. Every situation is different — use what applies to yours.

• Review sharing settings on fitness and health apps

  Check Fitbit, Apple Health, Strava, Garmin, and similar apps for shared access or linked accounts.

• Remove exercise routes from public or shared view

  Many fitness apps share routes by default. Switch to private or remove location from activities.

• Check who has access to your health data

  Apple Health: Settings > Health > Data Access. Google Fit: account settings > connected apps.