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How to export your Apple Health data

Apple Health can export everything it has recorded — steps, heart rate, sleep, workouts, body metrics — as an XML archive from your iPhone. Baseline is building the streaming parser for this file, but you can already grab the export today.

Can you export this data?

Yes. Apple Health includes a built-in export that produces a ZIP containing an export.xml file, plus workout-route files where relevant.

Step-by-step

  1. 1On your iPhone, open the Health app.
  2. 2Tap your profile picture or initials in the top-right corner.
  3. 3Scroll down and tap Export All Health Data.
  4. 4Wait for the export to prepare — this can take several minutes for long-standing accounts.
  5. 5When it's ready, share the exported ZIP to somewhere you can retrieve it from a computer (iCloud Drive, Files, email to yourself).

What’s in the file

The export is a ZIP with two XML files: export.xml (all your records) and export_cda.xml (a clinical-document version). Workout route files are also included for workouts that recorded GPS.

What Baseline does with it

Once the Apple Health parser ships, Baseline will read steps, resting heart rate, HRV, sleep sessions and workouts, and use them as recovery context alongside your rowing data. Because export.xml can be very large, the parser will stream the file rather than load it all into memory.

Common issues

  • The export can be big — several hundred megabytes on a long-standing account. Give the phone time to prepare it.
  • Some third-party apps write data to Apple Health in idiosyncratic ways; Baseline flags fields it doesn't recognise rather than silently including them.
  • Apple Health data isn't a substitute for HR data recorded during a specific workout — for a rowing session, the Concept2 or Garmin file is still the better source.

Privacy note

Apple Health data is sensitive. Baseline stores your export inside your private workspace only, and the AI layer never sees the raw XML — only structured summaries derived from it.

Frequently asked

Do I need an iPhone to use Baseline?
No. Apple Health is one of many sources. You can use Baseline with just Concept2 and Garmin files — you don't need an iPhone at all.
When will the Apple Health parser be ready?
It's on the roadmap after the first round of paid Baseline Reports. Until then, this page tells you how to get the file so it's ready to upload when the parser ships.
Can I upload just the workouts, not everything?
Right now the export is all-or-nothing. When the parser ships, Baseline will let you tell it which data types to import from the archive.

Ready when your file is

Once you have your export, upload it to Baseline and get one joined-up profile across rowing, endurance and body metrics.

Instructions last reviewed against the vendor documentation on 11 August 2026. View the official documentation.