Backup and sync

What to expect

Turn on backup and your sessions, settings and streaks sync to your account, so a lost, broken or replaced phone doesn’t take your training history with it. Turn it on on a new phone with the same Google Play account and everything is there, with no separate sign-in. More than one device? They stay in step.

Two phones, one set of points

If you run Health Connect on more than one device, the same workout can arrive twice, once as the session your phone recorded, and once as a copy that came back through Health Connect. Your weekly total will not count it twice.

This is the rule ZonePoints already applies to every session it holds, whatever the source. Where two sessions overlap, that time is credited once. The session recorded on the device wins over anything imported. A session from another app still counts for whatever time the local recording does not cover, so nothing is lost or counted twice.

Backup does not change that rule. It gives it more to work with.

It stays optional

ZonePoints works without an account today and will keep working that way. Backup is opt-in, not a sign-up wall in front of the app, and not on by default. Leave it off and nothing about the app changes. Your data stays on your phone, as it does now.

Why we’re building it

Local-only storage is the right default, and it’s the reason the app asks nothing of you when you install it. It’s also why the most common support message we get is from someone who changed phones and lost two years of sessions. Both of those things are true at once, and the answer is to make backup a choice rather than a requirement.

When it’s ready

No date yet. Use Vote for this feature at the top of this page and you’ll get one email the day it ships.