GymKit

Just days after announcing that the company would stop using Apple's GymKit, Peloton has backtracked on the decision. In an email sent to Peloton members, the company said, "We heard you loud and clear" and "Based on your feedback, we will continue supporting this integration."It was a strange decision for the company to remove GymKit, considering the feature has been a huge selling point for its Bike+ fitness bike. In 2022, the company added Apple Watch support via the Peloton One app to all of its fitness equipment,…

Peloton will move away from Apple’s GymKit, opting for Peloton One-Tap tracking starting on February 27 instead. The new change, confirmed via email this week, means that Peloton users will no longer use Apple’s encrypted health data to see their fitness stats like heart rate and calories burned on their Peloton bikes. GymKit was once exclusive to the Peloton Bike+, costing $2,495, but the company rolled out Apple Watch integration to all its fitness equipment in 2022.More recent Peloton purchasers will not have even…

In an email sent to users Monday evening, Peloton revealed that starting February 27th, it will start transitioning Apple Watch users from GymKit to Peloton One-Tap tracking. GymKit integration was once marketed by Peloton as an exclusive perk of its more expensive Bike Plus, but it’s become less of a draw in recent years. The company launched an Apple Watch integration in 2022 that brought Apple Watch calorie and heart-rate tracking to any Peloton machine, similar to many other fitness apps.As a result, if you linked…