Log your wake-up time and mindful minutes in Apple Health

With Rise Pro, starting your morning routine saves a wake-up marker to Apple Health, and each finished focus session of 5 minutes or more is saved as mindful minutes. This page covers how to turn it on, exactly when Rise writes, and the limits.

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What Apple Health sync does

Rise Pro writes two things to the Health app on your iPhone: a one-minute Awake entry at the moment you start your morning routine, and a mindful session for every focus session you finish that lasts at least 5 minutes. Both are written, never read. Rise does not pull anything out of Health.

The built-in Clock app is a solid alarm, and it rings reliably on the days you choose. What it does not do is log the focus time that follows the alarm to Health, or tie a wake-up marker to the moment you start your routine. Rise ties both to what you did, not to when the alarm sounded. Rise's sessions are saved as standard mindful sessions, so they join whatever else you already log in Health.

How it works in the app

1. Open Settings and find Data & Privacy. The Apple Health sync row is there when the device supports Health.
2. Switch it on. On a free account the row shows a Pro badge, and tapping it opens the paywall instead.
3. iOS shows its own Health permission sheet. Rise asks only to write Sleep and Mindful Sessions. Allow both.
4. When your alarm rings, stop it and tap Start Routine. Inside your morning window, Rise saves the wake-up entry at that moment.
5. Finish the focus timer. On the completion screen Rise saves the session to Health, starting at the time the timer began and lasting as many minutes as the session ran.

You can also meet this feature in the flow. After a finished session, if you have Pro, Health is available, Health is not yet on and your streak is 1 or less, Rise opens a sheet called Track your mornings in Apple Health with Allow Health Access and Not now. If you allow it, Rise saves that session straight away, including the wake-up entry.

Every option

There is one switch and a few rules around it.

What counts as your morning window

When you tap Start Routine, the wake-up entry is saved only inside the window. That is 04:00 to 12:00 every day. If your Rise alarm is on, the window also runs from 2 hours before the alarm to 6 hours after it, so an early or late alarm still counts. A Start focus session at 15:00 or 01:00 is not a wake-up, and Rise does not write one from that button. One exception: if you grant Health access from the first-run sheet, Rise saves a wake-up entry for that session at the time you tapped Start, whatever the hour.

Turning it off

Switching the toggle off in Rise does not remove access itself. Rise shows an alert that says to open the Health app, then your profile, then Apps, then Rise, where you revoke it. The alert has an Open Settings button that jumps to Health. Apple confirms you can view which apps have access and change what you share at any time.

When it is the right tool

You already review your habits in Health

If Health is where you look at sleep and mindfulness, Rise's sessions show up beside your other data without a second app to check.

You want proof your mornings are consistent

A wake-up entry on each day gives you a record of when you started, separate from when the alarm rang. Pair it with the streak calendar for the same pattern inside Rise.

You count focus time as mindful time

Each focus session of 5 minutes or more is saved, so a 25 minute session adds 25 minutes. This suits you if you use the time to sit with one task or to think quietly.

You change your alarm time

Because the morning window follows your alarm, a shifted wake-up time still gets logged. Read how to wake up early if you are moving it earlier.

Limits

• Write only. Rise asks for no Health read access, so it cannot show your sleep or your Health history inside the app.
• A marker, not a night of sleep. The wake-up entry lasts one minute. Rise does not record when you fell asleep, sleep stages or heart rate.
• Short sessions are skipped. A session under 5 minutes is not saved as mindful minutes.
• No backfill. Rise writes at the moment of the session. Turning Health on later does not add earlier days. Only the session you just finished is saved when you allow access from the first-run sheet.
• Pro to set it up. The toggle is locked on a free account, and the mindful session is saved only on a Pro account. The alarm itself stays free.
• Revoking happens in Health. Rise cannot withdraw its own access.

Rise needs a device where Health data is available, otherwise the row does not appear. Apple lists iOS 27.2 as its latest release, dated 26 October 2026, and Rise runs on iOS 26.2 or later.