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Loss of historical user data in fitness app

💚 healthproduct problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 3/5

A long-term MyFitnessPal premium subscriber reports that the app deleted their entire history of manually entered waist measurements, despite the user having evidence that the data was previously recorded.

Who's affected: A long-term premium subscriber of the MyFitnessPal app.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A third-party data backup tool that exports and stores health metrics from fitness apps into a user-controlled spreadsheet or cloud drive.
  2. An automated data integrity monitor that alerts users if historical records are missing or corrupted after an app update.
  3. A standardized data portability protocol for health apps to ensure users can easily migrate or archive their personal metrics.
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Real voices

“delete the entire history my manually entered waist measurements”

Source: App Store review: myfitnesspal

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