The app also talks with other Nike apps including Nike+ Training Club and Nike+ Running to share how much NikeFuel you’ve earned during workout sessions.īefore today’s new FuelBand app release, Nike has supported HealthKit and Apple’s Health app with NikeFuel sharing through its Nike+ Running app released shortly after the introduction of Apple’s fitness app on iOS 8. The streamlined feed supports sharing goals and cheering others along as they work toward their own goals. In addition to adding HealthKit integration with the new version of FuelBand, Nike also touts a new sports feed feature for making fitness tracking more social in one place with connections to Nike+, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. NikeFuel, the fitness company’s metric for tracking movement throughout the day, is featured as a supported fitness metric in Apple’s own Health app. The new version uses HealthKit, a framework introduced with iOS 8, to let Nike’s FuelBand app share data easily and with your permission to Apple’s built-in Health app and other apps that integrate with HealthKit.

The update also adds support for motion tracking right from the iPhone for iPhone 5s users and up and no longer requires a Nike FuelBand to use.

Nike today released a long-awaited update to its FuelBand app for iPhone users with the fitness tracking FuelBand wearable adding support for sharing NikeFuel points with Apple’s Health app on iOS 8.

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