How can I detect when a user denies permission or when the current permission is unavailable?

[Poovit-B]

Describe the bug

1. First Attempt:

   • Used AppleHealthKit.initHealthKit for the first time.
   • Denied permission, but the response still returns 1.
   • Uncertain whether the user has allowed or not.

2. Second Attempt:

   • Used AppleHealthKit.initHealthKit for the second time.
   • No permission dialog shown, but the response is still 1.

3. HealthKit Availability Check:

   • Checked AppleHealthKit.isAvailable, and it returns true.

4. Permission Status Check:

   • Checked AppleHealthKit.getAuthStatus. Returns {"permissions": {"read": [1, 1], "write": []}}.
   • No permission dialog is displayed; the result is directly returned.

import AppleHealthKit from 'react-native-health';

const PERMS = AppleHealthKit.Constants.Permissions;

export const permissions = {
    permissions: {
        read: [
            PERMS.StepCount,
            PERMS.Steps,
            PERMS.Workout,
            // PERMS.SleepAnalysis,
            // PERMS.ActiveEnergyBurned,
            // PERMS.BasalEnergyBurned,
            // PERMS.EnergyConsumed,
            // PERMS.ActivitySummary,
        ],
        write : []
    }
}

import AppleHealthKit from 'react-native-health';
import moment from 'moment';
import {permissions} from './permissions';

export const checkAppleHealth = async () => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    AppleHealthKit.isAvailable((err, results1) => {
      console.log('isAvailable results', results1);
      if (err) {
        console.log('error isAvailable Healthkit: ', err);
        resolve({success: false, ...results1});
      }
      AppleHealthKit.getAuthStatus(permissions, (err, results2) => {
        console.log('getAuthStatus results', results2);
        if (err) {
          console.log('error getAuthStatus Healthkit: ', err);
          resolve({success: false});
        }

        resolve({success: true, ...results2});
      });
    });
  });
};

export const authAppleHealth = () => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    AppleHealthKit.initHealthKit(permissions, (err, results) => {
      console.log('authAppleHealth results', results);
      console.log('err', err);
      if (err) {
        console.log('error initializing Healthkit: ', err);
        resolve({success: false, response: {error: err?.message}});
      }
      resolve({success: true});
    });
  });
};

[LinhLM23496]

+1

[RameeshSayone]

+1

[nazim-kh4nzm]

+1

[ftaibi]

please someone fix this I also need to know if the permissions were rejected or not

[ozgreenfeld]

Hi, I also ran into this issue, it really crucial to know whether the user approved / denied permissions. I also don't mind helping to add that functionality and open PR, will anyone be available to approve it and release new version?

[ozgreenfeld]

After struggling with this a bit I've found out that this data is deliberately not shared by Apple due to privacy reasons. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit/authorizing_access_to_health_data

As part of the privacy protections, your app doesn’t know whether someone granted or denied permission to read data from HealthKit. If they denied permission, attempts to read data from HealthKit return only samples that your app successfully saved to the HealthKit store.

[VipulPithva001]

We are experiencing an issue where, after initializing AppleHealthKit a second time using initHealthKit, no permission dialog is shown, but the response code remains 1. This behavior occurs consistently.

Please investigate this issue or guide how we might resolve it.