My health app shows my steps — but my assistant can't see them

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This is the most common health-data problem we know of, and it happened to the book's author first. There are two separate gates, and both must be open:

Gate 1 — your assistant may READ the shared health store (Android: Health Connect; Apple: Health). You grant this when the assistant asks.

Gate 2 — your health app WRITES into that store. Apps like Samsung Health count your steps inside their own walls. Until their sharing is on, the shared store holds almost nothing — sometimes only a constant daily calorie figure, which looks like data and is not your activity.

Help me check whether my health data is really reaching you.
Work through this with me, one gate at a time:

1. First, look at what you can actually see, and list the FIELDS,
   not just the record count. If you see step counts, say so.
   If you see only calorie figures, say exactly that — "data
   arrived" is not the same as "steps arrived".
2. If steps are missing, guide me to check the WRITE side: my
   health app's own settings for sharing to the health store
   (on Samsung phones: Samsung Health, Settings, Health
   Connect), and the store's app-access page for my health app,
   including the "allowed to write" section — I may need to
   scroll to see it.
3. After any change, wait, then look again and report what
   fields are present now.

If everything is permitted and the data still does not come,
say so plainly. Some makers share slowly, or only some data.
We will record what actually works for my phone instead of
pretending.

The fallback always works: you can simply tell your assistant the number ("8,214 steps today") and it will log it, honestly labeled as told-by-you. A dry pipe is an inconvenience, never a dead end.