Natural Cycles tracks your cycle along with your temperature. If you already use it, VertigoMe can pick up your period days from it. The setup is different on iPhone and Android, so follow the section for your phone.
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On Android, Natural Cycles does not currently share cycle data with other apps through Health Connect, even when Health Connect is installed. This is a choice by the app maker and outside our control. If you have an Android phone, skip to the Android section below.
On iPhone, the link works through Apple Health.
On iPhone
VertigoMe reads periods from Apple Health. Your cycle app writes them there, so you only need to give VertigoMe permission once.
- Open VertigoMe.
- Tap the gear icon in the top-left of the screen, then Connections.
- Find Apple Health and tap Connect. If it already says Connected, skip to step 6.
- Tap Continue on VertigoMe's short note.
- On Apple's sheet, tap Turn On All (or make sure Menstruation is on), then Allow.
- Open the drawer again, tap Data and Notifications, and check the Menstruation switch is on and its source badge says Apple Health. Connecting Apple Health sets this for you.
VertigoMe looks back over up to a year of period days in Apple Health.
If the permission sheet did not appear
Your iPhone may remember an old answer. Check it in Settings:
- Open the Settings app (the grey gear, not VertigoMe).
- Tap Apps, then Health, then Data Access & Devices.
- Tap VertigoMe and make sure Menstruation is on.
- Open VertigoMe again.
If you still see no periods
Open Natural Cycles, find Apple Health in its settings and make sure period data is shared. VertigoMe reads period days only. It does not read basal body temperature.
On Android
As noted at the top, Natural Cycles on Android does not share its data with Health Connect right now, so VertigoMe cannot see it. If that changes, here is how you would connect:
- Open VertigoMe.
- Tap the gear icon in the top-left of the screen, then Connections, and connect Health Connect if it is not connected yet.
- Open the drawer again and tap Data and Notifications.
- In the Menstruation section, make sure the Menstruation switch is on.
- Tap the small source badge under the word Menstruation and pick Health Connect in the Choose source list.
- Health Connect asks for permission to read periods. Allow it.
VertigoMe then looks back over up to two years of periods in Health Connect.
Until then, the simplest way on Android is to log your period directly in VertigoMe.
Logging your period in VertigoMe
This only takes a moment.
- Open VertigoMe.
- Tap the Monitor tab.
- Scroll to the Menstruation card and tap it.
- Under Log a Period, tap Select date.
- Pick the day your period started.
- Tap Add.
Do this on the first day of each period. You can also pick a past date if you forgot. VertigoMe uses your periods to predict the next one, and the days around a predicted period count towards your daily spin risk.
Privacy
VertigoMe never reads anything from Natural Cycles directly. On iPhone it only reads what Natural Cycles shares with Apple Health, after you allow it. You can switch it off any time under Data and Notifications, Menstruation. On iPhone, periods you log in VertigoMe are also saved to Apple Health.
