Priv8Vitals User Guide - First Draft
Your personal fitness readiness companion
Table of Contents
1. What Is Priv8Vitals?
2. Our Privacy Promise
3. Getting Started
4. Today Tab — Your Daily Dashboard
5. Training Tab — Scores & Workouts
6. Info Tab — Check-Ins & More
7. Customize Your Dashboard
8. Cycle Insights — Women's Health
9. Settings
10. Privacy & Security
11. Tips for Best Results
12. FAQ & Troubleshooting
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What Is Priv8Vitals?
Priv8Vitals turns your Apple Health data into daily scores that track recovery, energy, readiness to train, and overall health. No guesswork — just your data, working for you.
Every morning, Priv8Vitals analyzes your overnight heart rate variability (HRV), resting heart rate (RHR), and sleep to produce three core scores:
- RTT (Ready To Train): Your overall readiness to exercise, on a 1–100 scale.
- Recovery: How well your body recovered overnight (0–100%).
- Energy: Your current metabolic capacity based on HRV (0–100%).
Throughout the day, the app updates in real time as you move, work out, and check in. A personalized morning coaching plan tells you whether today is a Push Day, Recovery Day, or Build Day — and adjusts if you log context like jet lag, alcohol, or a hard workout the day before.
All of your data stays on your device and in your private iCloud account. Nothing is shared with third parties. Ever.
[IMAGE: Hero screenshot — Today tab showing Coaches Corner and Morning Wellness cards]
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Our Privacy Promise
Most health apps want your email address, track your behavior, and monetize your data. Priv8Vitals is different — and we think that matters.
**We never see your data.** All of your health information is stored locally on your device and synced to your personal iCloud account. The developer has no server, no database, and no way to access your data. We couldn't look at it even if we wanted to.
**We never ask for your email.** There's no account to create, no login screen, no registration form. You install the app and go. That means you'll never receive marketing emails from us, and your email address will never be sold to advertisers or third parties — because we don't have it.
**We never track you.** The only "tracking" Priv8Vitals does is gathering environmental context — weather, air quality, altitude, and travel detection — to give you a fuller picture of what's affecting your body. That data stays on your device like everything else.
**We don't want to know what you do outside your Apple Health data.** We're not monitoring your browsing, your app usage, or your location history. Priv8Vitals reads your Apple Health metrics — and that's it.
**Our mission is simple:** surface your health information in a way that's easy to understand so you can track and improve your health. That's what we're here for. Nothing more.
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## Getting Started
### Step 1: Download & Open
Download Priv8Vitals from the App Store and open it. You'll be greeted with a guided setup that walks you through everything. You can skip any step and come back to it later in Settings.
### Step 2: Privacy & Disclaimer
Priv8Vitals processes all of your data on your device. Your personal details stay local, and iCloud sync only goes through your own Apple account. The app is a wellness tool — not a medical device — so scores are wellness-based, not clinical.
### Step 3: Set Up Your Profile
Your profile helps the app personalize your scores. You'll be asked for:
- **Name** (optional — used for greetings)
- **Biological sex** (used for score calculations and body composition ranges)
- **Birth month & year** (used for fitness and metabolic age)
- **Typical wake time** (determines when your morning scores lock in)
You can also set your daily goals for steps, sleep, and heart rate preferences during setup, or adjust them later in Settings.
[IMAGE: Profile setup screen]
### Step 4: Grant Permissions
Priv8Vitals needs two permissions for the best experience:
- **Apple Health** (required): This is where your HRV, heart rate, sleep, workout, and body composition data lives. Without it, the app can't generate scores.
- **Location** (recommended): Used for weather data and environmental context like altitude changes and travel detection.
If you have multiple Apple devices, only the one paired with your Apple Watch needs Health permissions. Your other devices will receive scores automatically via iCloud.
### Step 5: Import Your Health History
For the most accurate scores and baselines, import at least **90 days** of Apple Health history. This gives the app enough data to calculate your personal baselines — the rolling averages it compares your daily metrics against.
You can choose from several import ranges:
- **30 days** — Get started quickly
- **90 days** — Recommended for most users
- **6 months** — Better baseline accuracy
- **All available data** — Best accuracy (may take a few minutes)
You can always import more data later from **Settings > Health Data**.
[IMAGE: Data import screen with range options]
### Step 6: Complete Your First Morning Check-In
After your first night wearing your Apple Watch to bed, open Priv8Vitals and complete your Morning Check-In. This takes about 30 seconds — just move the sliders for anything that feels off. If everything feels good, submit them at zero (the default) for no penalty.
Your Morning Check-In adds a subjective layer to your RTT score, making it more accurate than physiology alone.
### Step 7: You're All Set
Your Today tab will now show your morning coaching plan, wellness scores, and daily metrics. The more consistently you wear your watch and check in, the more accurate your scores become.
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## Today Tab — Your Daily Dashboard
The Today tab is the first screen you see when you open the app. It's your daily command center — a snapshot of how you're doing right now and what to focus on today.
[IMAGE: Full Today tab screenshot showing multiple cards]
### Weather
A quick look at current conditions — temperature, humidity, UV index, and today's high/low. Tap to open the Apple Weather app for a full forecast.
Weather data also feeds into context detection. If Priv8Vitals notices you've changed time zones or altitude, it factors that into your coaching.
### Coaches Corner
Your personalized morning game plan. Coaches Corner analyzes your 7-day trends, yesterday's training load, overnight recovery, and any context from your Evening Check-In to deliver one of several coaching headlines:
- **Push Day** — Recovery and energy are strong. Today is a great day to challenge yourself.
- **Build Day** — Metrics are solid. Build on your momentum with a moderate session.
- **Recovery Day** — Your body needs a lighter day. Focus on mobility, easy movement, or rest.
- **Reset Day** — Multiple signals suggest you should take it easy. Listen to your body.
Tap the card to expand the full coaching plan, which explains what happened overnight, what it means, and specific training guidance.
Coaches Corner is also **context-aware**. If you logged alcohol, late caffeine, or a hard workout in your Evening Check-In, it adjusts. It also detects jet lag, altitude changes, and post-vaccine recovery automatically.
If you have Cycle Insights enabled, coaching adapts to your current menstrual phase.
[IMAGE: Coaches Corner card expanded, showing coaching plan detail]
### Morning Wellness
Three gauges showing your morning-locked scores:
- **RTT (Ready To Train)** — Your overall readiness based on Recovery and Energy.
- **Recovery** — How well your body recovered overnight, based on HRV, RHR, and sleep.
- **Energy** — Your metabolic capacity based on HRV trends.
These scores are captured when you wake up and **do not change during the day**. This gives you a consistent reference point — you can always compare your morning starting point to how you feel later.
If your Apple Watch wasn't worn overnight, you may see a "Limited Data" badge. The app will still estimate scores using daytime HRV, but overnight data is more accurate.
[IMAGE: Morning Wellness card with three gauges]
### Current Wellness
Two live gauges — RTT and Energy — that update throughout the day. Unlike Morning Wellness, these reflect your current state including activity, check-ins, and intraday changes.
Below the gauges, a wellness advisor message evolves as the day progresses:
- **Morning:** Readiness-focused guidance based on your overnight metrics.
- **Midday:** Activity-aware suggestions that factor in how much you've moved.
- **Evening:** Wind-down and recovery-focused messaging.
The advisor also responds to rest days, injuries, weather, and (if enabled) your cycle phase.
[IMAGE: Current Wellness card showing live gauges and advisor message]
### Cycle Insights
If you track your menstrual cycle in Apple Health, this card appears just below Current Wellness. It shows your current cycle phase with training guidance tailored to each phase. See the dedicated [Cycle Insights](#cycle-insights) section below for full details.
### Body Composition
Three gauges tracking your body over time:
- **Goal Progress** — How close you are to your weight goal (0–100%).
- **Lean Mass %** — Your lean body mass ratio (higher is generally better).
- **Body Comp Score** — A composite health metric (0–100) weighing BMI, body fat, waist circumference, weight stability, and lean mass.
No raw weight numbers appear on the card face — those are in the detail view, which shows smooth trend charts over 30, 60, or 90 days for weight, body fat, lean mass, and waist circumference.
Body Composition works best with a smart scale that syncs to Apple Health (like Withings or Renpho). Without body fat data, the card will suggest getting one.
[IMAGE: Body Composition card with three gauges]
### Sleep Average
Your 7-day rolling sleep averages at a glance:
- **Duration** — Average hours slept vs. your sleep goal.
- **Sleep Score** — Overall sleep quality (0–100).
- **Sleep Debt** — Accumulated sleep deficit over the past week. Zero debt shows a full green gauge; 7+ hours of debt shows red.
This card updates slowly by design — it's a weekly trend, not a daily snapshot. If your sleep data hasn't changed much, the numbers won't either.
[IMAGE: Sleep Average card]
### Calories Burned
A two-tone ring showing today's total calorie burn:
- **Green segment** — Resting calories (your baseline metabolism, also known as BMR).
- **Orange segment** — Active calories from movement and exercise.
The center shows your total, and the right side breaks out Active vs. Resting with your daily goal.
### NEAT Score
NEAT stands for **Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis** — the calories you burn from everyday movement outside of structured workouts. Walking to the store, taking the stairs, doing housework — it all counts.
- **NEAT Score (0–100)** — How your daily movement compares to your personal 30-day baseline.
- **Supporting metrics:** Step count, stand time, flights climbed, walking distance.
A high NEAT score means you're staying active throughout the day, not just during your workout.
### Exertion Load
Your training strain for the day on a 0–10 scale:
- **0:** Rest Day
- **1–2:** Very Easy / Easy
- **3–4:** Easy / Moderate
- **5–6:** Moderate / Hard
- **7–8:** Hard / Very Hard
- **9–10:** Very Hard / Maximum
The score is calculated from your workouts using heart rate zone-weighted minutes. Higher heart rate zones count for more: Zone 1 counts as half a minute, Zone 2 as one minute, Zone 3 as two, Zone 4 as three and a half, and Zone 5 as five minutes per actual minute spent.
The score is normalized against your personal 28-day training baseline, so a "6" for a beginner represents the same relative effort as a "6" for an elite athlete.
Tap for a detail view with your heart rate zone distribution breakdown and historical trends.
[IMAGE: Exertion Load card with gauge and zone breakdown in detail view]
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## Training Tab — Scores & Workouts
The Training tab is where you track your fitness metrics, scores, and workout history over time. While the Today tab shows today's snapshot, the Training tab shows trends and progress.
[IMAGE: Full Training tab screenshot]
### Health Profile
Your vitals dashboard showing three ages:
- **Chronological Age** — Your actual age.
- **Fitness Age** — Estimated from cardiovascular health, activity level, and VO2 max. Lower than your real age is great.
- **Metabolic Age** — Estimated from body composition, resting heart rate, and metabolic markers.
Tap for a detail view with four scored categories (each 0–100):
- **Cardiovascular** — Resting heart rate, VO2 max, cardio fitness.
- **Sleep & Recovery** — Sleep quality, duration, HRV.
- **Body Composition** — Weight, lean mass, body fat percentage.
- **Fitness** — Cardio capacity and strength markers.
Each category includes specific tips for improvement. If you're missing data (like no sleep tracking or no body composition data), a helpful setup guidance card explains what to do.
[IMAGE: Health Profile detail view with four scored categories]
### Training Load (Week over Week)
Compares this week's total training stress against last week using **TRIMP (Training Impulse)** — a scientifically validated measure of workout load based on duration and heart rate intensity.
- **This Week vs. Last Week** — Side-by-side comparison with percentage change.
- **Green arrow** means you're training more; **red arrow** means less.
Tap for the Training Status detail view, which shows three key metrics:
- **Fatigue (ATL)** — Your 7-day acute training load. High fatigue means you've been pushing hard recently.
- **Fitness (CTL)** — Your 28-day chronic training load. This represents your overall fitness trend.
- **Balance (TSB)** — Fitness minus Fatigue. Positive means you're fresh; negative means you're carrying fatigue.
This is the same framework used by professional coaches and apps like TrainingPeaks.
[IMAGE: Training Load card and Training Status detail view]
### RTT Score (Ready To Train)
Your master readiness metric — the single number that answers "Should I train hard today?"
The card shows two rings:
- **Morning Score** — Physiology only, locked at wake. Calculated as Recovery (62.5%) + Energy (37.5%).
- **Current Score** — Updates after your Morning Check-In to include how you actually feel. Adds a subjective component so your perceived readiness matters too.
If you've logged an injury in your Morning Check-In, the card shows how much it's capping your score with guidance ranging from "Train normally" (no injury) to "DO NOT TRAIN" (severe/acute).
**Score zones:**
- **81–100 (Excellent):** You're primed. Go for it.
- **61–80 (Good):** Solid day for training. Moderate to high intensity is fine.
- **41–60 (Moderate):** Consider dialing it back. Light to moderate activity.
- **21–40 (Low):** Recovery day. Easy movement only.
- **0–20 (Very Low):** Rest. Your body is telling you something.
### Recovery Score
Your overnight recovery percentage — how well your body bounced back while you slept.
Based on three metrics:
- **HRV (Heart Rate Variability)** — Higher than your baseline is good. Shows your nervous system is recovered.
- **RHR (Resting Heart Rate)** — Lower than your baseline is good. Elevated RHR suggests stress or incomplete recovery.
- **Sleep** — Duration and quality compared to your goal.
The card shows a single gauge with your percentage, plus trend arrows for each metric compared to yesterday. Recovery is calculated once each morning and stays fixed for the day.
[IMAGE: Recovery Score card with metric breakdown]
### Energy Level
Your real-time metabolic capacity — how much gas is in the tank right now.
Like RTT, this card shows two rings:
- **Morning Energy** — Your starting capacity based on overnight HRV.
- **Current Energy** — Updates throughout the day as you expend energy through activity.
Energy drains as you work out and accumulate active calories. It's also affected by sleep debt (cumulative sleep deficit over the past week) and your resting heart rate relative to baseline.
### Activity Summary
A compact view of today's activity with three mini rings:
- **Calories Burned** — Two-tone ring (resting + active).
- **NEAT Score** — Your non-exercise activity level.
- **Exertion Load** — Today's training strain.
Tap for a full breakdown with detailed numbers.
### Week over Week Activity
Compares this week's activity against last week across three metrics:
- **Total Calories** — with percentage change.
- **Steps** — with percentage change.
- **Exercise Minutes** — with percentage change.
Green arrows show improvements; red arrows show declines. A quick way to see if you're trending up or down.
### Recent Workouts
A scrollable list of your workouts from the past 14 days. Each entry shows:
- Workout type (Running, Cycling, Strength, etc.)
- Date, time, and duration
- Distance (if applicable)
- Calories burned
- **TRIMP intensity badge** — color-coded by difficulty:
- **Green** — Easy session
- **Blue** — Moderate
- **Orange** — Hard
- **Red** — Very Hard
TRIMP badges let you see at a glance how intense each session was relative to your fitness level.
[IMAGE: Recent Workouts card with TRIMP badges]
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## Info Tab — Check-Ins & More
The Info tab is home to your daily check-ins, tips, data export, and profile management.
### Morning Check-In
Your daily opportunity to tell the app how you actually feel. The check-in takes about 30 seconds and uses six sliders:
1. **Overall feeling** — Excellent to Terrible
2. **Muscle soreness** — No Soreness to Very Sore
3. **Body/joint aches** — No Aches to Severe Aches
4. **Headache** — None to Severe
5. **Energy level** — High Energy to Very Low
6. **Injuries** — None to Significant
All sliders default to zero, which means "feeling good." Only move a slider if something is off. Submitting at zero applies no penalty to your scores.
After you submit, your Current RTT score updates to include your subjective input, and Coaches Corner re-evaluates its coaching to reflect how you actually feel.
You can also go back and edit past check-ins using the date picker (up to 60 days back).
[IMAGE: Morning Check-In sheet with sliders]
### Evening Check-In
Your end-of-day journal. Instead of sliders, the Evening Check-In uses **tags** — quick taps to log what happened during the day. There are 20+ tags organized by category:
**Medications:**
- Ibuprofen (NSAID), Antihistamine, Melatonin
**Recovery Activities:**
- Sauna, Cold Plunge, Massage, Meditation
**Sleep Disruptors:**
- Late Caffeine, Late Meal
**Lifestyle:**
- Alcohol, Social Event, Late Night, Work Deadline, Great Day
You can also add **custom tags** and **symptoms** to track anything specific to you. Tags you don't use can be hidden.
**Why it matters:** Your evening tags directly influence tomorrow's morning coaching. If you log alcohol, Coaches Corner will mention it. If you log a sauna session, it factors that into recovery expectations. The more you tag, the smarter your coaching gets.
The Evening Check-In card shows a green checkmark only after your evening notification hour (default 9pm), distinguishing between daytime journaling and your evening reflection.
[IMAGE: Evening Check-In sheet with tag categories]
### Tips & Tricks
A collection of 18 practical tips that unlock one per day. Each tip covers a specific aspect of getting the most from Priv8Vitals and your health data — from when to charge your Apple Watch to how to export your data to an AI coach.
Browse tips anytime using the back/next buttons. A badge shows how many new tips are available.
### Export Data
Export your complete health history as a CSV file. This includes all your daily scores, metrics, and workout data. Great for:
- Sharing with a personal trainer or coach
- Analyzing trends in a spreadsheet
- Feeding into AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude for personalized insights
Your first export requires Face ID or Touch ID authentication for security. After that, exports work for 5 minutes before re-authentication is needed.
### My Profile
View and edit your profile information anytime. A red badge dot appears if your profile is incomplete. Your profile includes name, age, biological sex, height, weight, wake time, and (optionally) smoking and alcohol status.
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## Customize Your Dashboard
Every main tab in Priv8Vitals — Today, Training, and Info — can be customized to show the cards you care about in the order you prefer.
### How to Customize
1. Scroll to the bottom of any tab and tap the **Customize** button.
2. A sheet opens showing your **Visible Cards** and **Hidden Cards**.
3. **Reorder:** Drag cards using the handle on the right side to change their position.
4. **Hide:** Swipe a card left to move it to the Hidden section.
5. **Restore:** Tap the green plus button next to any hidden card to bring it back.
6. **Reset:** Tap "Reset to Default" to restore the original card order.
7. Tap **Done** to save your changes.
Your layout syncs automatically across all your devices via iCloud. Customize on your iPhone and your iPad will match.
**Note:** A few elements can't be moved — the refresh banner always stays at the top, the Customize button always stays at the bottom, and Cycle Insights always follows the Current Wellness card.
[IMAGE: Customize sheet showing drag handles and hidden cards section]
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## Cycle Insights — Women's Health
Cycle Insights is an optional feature for users who track their menstrual cycle in Apple Health. It adds phase-aware training guidance throughout the app.
### What It Does
Your menstrual cycle affects your physiology. HRV, resting heart rate, body temperature, and energy levels all shift predictably across four phases. Cycle Insights uses this to:
- Show your current phase and day in your cycle
- Provide phase-specific training recommendations
- Adjust Coaches Corner and Current Wellness messaging to your cycle
- Adapt your HRV and RHR baselines so normal phase-related shifts don't unfairly lower your scores
### The Four Phases
**Menstrual Phase (Days ~1–5)**
Your period. Energy and recovery capacity may be lower. Priv8Vitals recommends prioritizing recovery, gentle movement, and listening to your body. Light yoga, walking, and stretching are ideal.
**Follicular Phase (Days ~6–13)**
Energy begins to rise. This is a great time to build strength, increase training volume, and try new challenges. Your body recovers faster during this phase.
**Ovulation Phase (Days ~14–16)**
Peak performance window. High-intensity training, personal records, and competitive events are ideal here. One note: joint laxity increases around ovulation, so warm up thoroughly.
**Luteal Phase (Days ~17–28)**
Energy gradually decreases. Favor steady-state cardio and moderate intensity. You may need more recovery time between sessions. Body temperature rises slightly, which can affect sleep and perceived effort.
### Privacy Modes
Cycle Insights offers two display modes, toggled with the eye icon on the card:
- **Discreet Mode (default):** Shows only "Day 14" with a brief training tip like "Peak performance." No phase names or detailed cycle language appears.
- **Detailed Mode:** Shows the full phase name (e.g., "Ovulation Phase · Day 2 of ~3") with comprehensive guidance.
Your privacy preference syncs across devices via iCloud.
### Hormonal Contraceptive Awareness
If Priv8Vitals detects hormonal contraceptive use from your Apple Health data (implant, injection, IUD, ring, oral, or patch), it automatically pauses cycle-phase coaching. Hormonal birth control flattens the natural hormonal variation that Cycle Insights relies on, so phase-based advice would be inaccurate.
You'll see a banner explaining the pause. If you prefer to keep cycle coaching active anyway, you can override this in **Settings > Preferences > Cycle Insights**.
### How to Enable
1. Make sure you're tracking your menstrual cycle in Apple Health (either manually or via a connected app like Clue, Flo, or Natural Cycles).
2. Go to **Settings > Preferences > Cycle Insights** and toggle it on.
3. Set your typical cycle length (21–35 days, default 28).
4. Choose your privacy mode (Discreet or Detailed).
You may also see a setup prompt on the Today tab if Priv8Vitals detects cycle data in Apple Health but the feature isn't enabled yet.
[IMAGE: Cycle Insights card in both discreet and detailed modes]
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## Settings
### Notifications
Set up reminders for your daily check-ins:
- **Morning Check-In** — Choose a time, toggle on/off, and pick a notification sound.
- **Evening Check-In** — Same options. The default evening hour (9pm) also determines when the green checkmark appears on your Evening Check-In card.
- **Export Reminder** — Optional reminder on specific days of the week to export your data.
You can choose whether notification settings sync across devices via iCloud or stay device-specific.
### Appearance
Choose between Dark Mode, Light Mode, or Auto (follows your system setting).
### Preferences
Fine-tune how your scores are calculated:
- **Heart Rate:** Set your resting heart rate zone and maximum heart rate for accurate zone calculations.
- **Sleep:** Set your daily sleep goal (used for sleep score and debt calculations).
- **Steps:** Set your daily step goal.
- **Cycle Insights:** Enable/disable, set cycle length, choose privacy mode, and manage hormonal contraceptive overrides.
### Security
- **App Lock:** Require Face ID or Touch ID to open the app. Choose a lock delay (immediately, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, or 10 minutes after leaving the app).
- **Export Authentication:** Requires biometric authentication before exporting health data.
### Health Data
- **Import Historical Data:** Re-import health data from Apple Health at any time. Choose from 30 days to all available data.
- **Permission Status:** Check whether Health permissions are authorized, and re-request if needed.
If you're using a device that isn't paired with your Apple Watch, this section will note that health data syncs automatically via iCloud from your paired device.
### Battery & Performance
- **Background Refresh:** Toggle background refresh on/off and set the refresh interval (5, 15, or 30 minutes, or hourly). More frequent refreshes keep your scores current but use slightly more battery.
### Advanced
For power users:
- **Algorithm Settings:** View and (for advanced users) adjust the anchors, slopes, and weights used in Recovery, Energy, RTT, and Exertion calculations.
- **Log Files:** Access system logs for troubleshooting.
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## Privacy & Security
Priv8Vitals was built with privacy as a core principle:
- **On-device processing:** All score calculations happen on your iPhone. Your health data never leaves your device except through your own iCloud account.
- **Your iCloud, your data:** Scores and settings sync through your personal iCloud account via CloudKit. Priv8Vitals has no server, no database, and no access to your iCloud data.
- **PII isolation:** Personal information (name, age, sex) is stored in a separate private container that never syncs to iCloud.
- **No tracking:** No analytics services, no ad networks, no third-party SDKs that collect data.
- **Biometric protection:** Optional Face ID / Touch ID lock prevents unauthorized access to the app.
- **Export authentication:** Health data exports require biometric authentication.
- **No account required:** There's no login, no email collection, no account creation. You install and go.
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## Tips for Best Results
### Wear Your Apple Watch to Bed
This is the single most impactful thing you can do. Overnight HRV and resting heart rate are the foundation of your Recovery and Energy scores. Without them, the app falls back to less accurate daytime estimates.
**Pro tip:** Charge your watch for 30 minutes while you get ready for bed, then put it on before you sleep. Most modern Apple Watches hold enough charge to last through the night and the next day.
### Be Consistent with Check-Ins
Your Morning Check-In only takes 30 seconds and significantly improves the accuracy of your RTT score. Set a notification reminder and make it part of your morning routine.
Evening Check-Ins feed directly into tomorrow's coaching. The more context you give the app, the better its advice.
### Import at Least 90 Days of History
Your personal baselines — the rolling averages your scores are compared against — need historical data to be accurate. With less than 28 days of data, your baselines may be unreliable. 90 days gives the app a solid foundation.
You can import more data anytime from **Settings > Health Data**.
### Don't Chase Daily Numbers
Day-to-day fluctuations are normal. A Recovery score of 72% one day and 68% the next doesn't mean anything went wrong. Focus on **weekly trends** instead. The Training tab's charts and week-over-week comparisons are designed for this.
### Use a Smart Scale
If you want Body Composition tracking, a smart scale that syncs weight and body fat percentage to Apple Health makes the experience much richer. Brands like Withings, Renpho, and Eufy all work well.
### Trust the Coaching
Coaches Corner factors in data you might not consciously track — subtle HRV declines, cumulative sleep debt, training load trends over 7 days. If it says "Recovery Day," there's usually a good reason, even if you feel fine.
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## FAQ & Troubleshooting
### Why are my scores different from other apps?
Every fitness app uses different algorithms with different weights and anchors. Priv8Vitals's Recovery score is calibrated against Athlytic (within ±5 points) but may differ from Whoop, Oura, or Garmin. What matters most is consistency — track your trends within one app rather than comparing across apps.
### Why does my Morning Wellness stay the same all day?
By design. Morning Wellness captures your overnight recovery snapshot and locks it in. This gives you a stable reference point. Your **Current Wellness** card is the one that updates throughout the day.
### Why is my Recovery score lower than expected?
Recovery is relative to your personal 28-day baseline. If your baseline HRV is high (because you've been recovering well), a "normal" night might score as moderate. This is your body's new normal — it takes more to impress the algorithm. If you're consistently scoring lower than expected, check that you're wearing your watch to bed and getting adequate sleep.
### What does "Limited Data" mean?
This badge appears when overnight data (HRV, RHR, or sleep) is unavailable — usually because your Apple Watch wasn't worn to bed. The app will estimate scores using daytime HRV, but overnight data is more accurate. Wear your watch to sleep for the best results.
### I have multiple Apple devices. Which one should I use?
Use the device paired with your Apple Watch as your primary device. It gets real-time HealthKit data. Your other devices (iPad, second iPhone) will receive scores via iCloud sync automatically — you don't need to import or grant Health permissions on those devices.
### My scores don't appear after setup.
Make sure you've:
1. Granted Apple Health permissions
2. Imported at least some historical data (Settings > Health Data)
3. Worn your Apple Watch to bed for at least one night
If you skipped these during onboarding, you can complete them anytime from Settings.
### How do I export my data?
Go to **Info tab > Export Data**. You'll need to authenticate with Face ID or Touch ID on your first export. The data exports as a CSV file that you can open in Excel, Google Sheets, or share with a coach.
### Can I delete my data?
Priv8Vitals uses your iCloud account for data storage. To delete all app data, delete the app and clear its data from **iPhone Settings > iCloud > Manage Storage > Priv8Vitals**.
### Where can I request features or report bugs?
Tap the **Feature Request & Feedback** button at the bottom of the in-app User Guide (Info tab > User Guide). This opens a feedback form where you can share ideas and report issues.
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*Priv8Vitals — No guesswork. Just your data, working for you.*
