What it costs
Free. Neither side charges for the connection. Eligible new Strava members who buy a Galaxy Watch9 or Galaxy Watch Ultra2 get up to 60 days of a Strava subscription free, started from the Strava phone app's settings (not offered in nine places, South Korea among them).
If the official sync is not enough
- Health Sync. Copies workouts and health data between apps, Strava included both ways: Garmin, Fitbit, Huawei Health or Samsung Health (Android) into Strava, or Strava out to Apple Health (iPhone), Intervals.icu and others. Filters by activity type, distance and duration. A one-week free trial, then a one-time license (or, on Android, a six-month subscription)
How to set it up
- Open Samsung Health on your Android phone.
- Tap the ellipses in the top right of the main screen, then Settings.
- Scroll down to Services and toggle Strava on.
- Authorise the connection when Strava asks.
What reaches Strava
- GPS-based activities recorded in Samsung Health, once they have finished uploading there
What comes back from Strava
- Route information and activity type
- Distance, time and calories
- Activities Strava itself received from other connected services also carry on to Samsung Health
Limitations and gotchas
- iOS is not supported. Strava states it is not possible to connect to Strava from the Samsung Health app on iOS.
- On the watch itself there is a second way in: Strava's own Wear OS app, which records time, distance and heart rate in Strava and needs Wear OS 3 or later. Older Tizen Galaxy Watches are no longer supported, and no Galaxy Watch works with an iPhone. Strava says the app comes pre-installed on the Galaxy Watch9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra2; Samsung's Chile newsroom names only the Watch9.
- Activities without GPS data do not sync to Strava at all. A treadmill run or a gym session stays in Samsung Health, and the only way to show it on Strava is to post an image of the stats by hand.
- There is no documented historical backfill. Expect the connection to start working from the day you switch it on.
- Health Connect is not a workaround for this. Strava writes activity data into Health Connect and reads only weight back out, so it never picks up workouts that Samsung Health put there. Samsung also notes its activity tracker data is not synchronised with Health Connect.
- Strava Routes inside Samsung Health, with navigation on the watch for Strava subscribers, was announced in July 2026 for later in the year. As of mid-October neither company documents it as available, and neither has said which older watches get it.
- Samsung's support site does not document the Strava toggle, though its Chile newsroom now gives the same path (Settings, Services, Strava). Strava's help centre is the fuller source, worth knowing if the setting moves.
Sources
- Strava Help Center: Samsung Health and Strava
- Strava Help Center: Health Connect and Strava
- Samsung: Accessing Samsung Health data through Health Connect
- Strava Help Center: Wear OS and Strava
- Strava press: Strava, Samsung partner for pre-installs on new Galaxy Watches
- Samsung Newsroom: Galaxy Watch Ultra2 and Watch9
- Samsung Newsroom Chile: Samsung and Strava (Spanish)
Checked against those sources on October 15, 2026. Integrations change; if something here is out of date, tell us.