appleMoveTime: HealthKit quantity type
HKQuantityTypeIdentifierAppleMoveTime · read from Apple’s documentation on 2026-10-02
HKQuantityTypeIdentifier.appleMoveTime (Objective-C HKQuantityTypeIdentifierAppleMoveTime) is a HealthKit quantity type in Apple's "Activity" group. Apple's abstract: “A quantity sample type that measures the amount of time the user has spent performing activities that involve full-body movements during the specified day.” Apple's discussion says its samples use time units and measure cumulative values, so in HKStatisticsQuery it takes .cumulativeSum. It is available from iOS 14.5 and watchOS 7.4.
What Apple says appleMoveTime is
A quantity sample type that measures the amount of time the user has spent performing activities that involve full-body movements during the specified day.
Apple’s abstract, quoted from its appleMoveTime reference page, read 2026-10-02. Apple’s discussion of the type runs 64 words.
- Swift
HKQuantityTypeIdentifier.appleMoveTime- Objective-C
HKQuantityTypeIdentifierAppleMoveTime- Family
HKQuantityTypeIdentifier- Apple's topic group
- Activity
- Group page
- Activity
- Apple's reference
- appleMoveTime on developer.apple.com
Availability
The versions Apple’s documentation data gives for appleMoveTime, platform by platform, as read on 2026-10-02.
| Platform | Introduced | Deprecated |
|---|---|---|
| iOS | 14.5 | — |
| iPadOS | 14.5 | — |
| Mac Catalyst | 14.5 | — |
| macOS | 13.0 | — |
| visionOS | 1.0 | — |
| watchOS | 7.4 | — |
The rest of that release: HealthKit Types Introduced in iOS 14.
Sum or average, and in which units
Apple states both of these in the prose of the type’s discussion, not as properties, so they are derived from Apple’s sentence and the sentence is shown with each.
Aggregation style
cumulative — in an HKStatisticsQuery, use .cumulativeSum. Apple’s sentence:
For younger users, HealthKit’s activity summary can track move time instead of active energy burned: These samples use time units (described in ) and measure cumulative values (described in ).
Unit family
time — every type in this family is on the HKUnit reference.
Apple states it in the same sentence as the aggregation style, quoted above.
Empty parentheses and a dangling “described in” mark links in Apple’s sentence to other documentation pages: the generator keeps the sentence’s text, not its links, and the quote is left as stored rather than repaired.
Can apps write appleMoveTime?
Apple’s documentation for appleMoveTime does not state that its samples are read-only. Apple states read-only status only in prose, and its silence is not a statement either way, so this page makes no claim that apps can save it.
On Android Health Connect
No verified Health Connect counterpart. The cross-platform matrix pairs only metrics checked against both Apple’s and Google’s documentation, and appleMoveTime is not among them. A similarly named Health Connect record may exist, but a name match is not a verified mapping.
Questions
- Should I sum or average appleMoveTime in HealthKit?
- Sum it. Apple's documentation for appleMoveTime describes it as measuring cumulative values, so an HKStatisticsQuery over it takes .cumulativeSum. Apple's sentence, as read on 2026-10-02: "For younger users, HealthKit’s activity summary can track move time instead of active energy burned: These samples use time units (described in ) and measure cumulative values (described in )."
- Which unit family does Apple give appleMoveTime?
- Time. Apple's discussion of appleMoveTime says its samples use time units: "For younger users, HealthKit’s activity summary can track move time instead of active energy burned: These samples use time units (described in ) and measure cumulative values (described in )."
- Which iOS version added appleMoveTime?
- iOS 14.5. Apple's availability data for appleMoveTime lists iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, Mac Catalyst 14.5, macOS 13.0, visionOS 1.0 and watchOS 7.4.
Sources checked
- Apple — HKQuantityTypeIdentifier.appleMoveTime · read 2026-10-02
- Apple — HKQuantityTypeIdentifier · read 2026-10-02
Apple’s abstract and sentences are quoted for identification; the page layout, the capsule and the cross-platform pairing are AIFitnessAPI’s. Generated from Apple’s documentation by scripts/fetch-healthkit-identifiers.mjs, not typed by hand — the same data as the full identifier table.