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It helps to include your iPhone model, your iOS version, and the Forma version shown at the bottom of Settings → About → Privacy.
Requirements
Forma runs on iPhone with iOS 15 or later. There is no iPad layout and no Android version. Apple Health features need an iPhone; the energy and heart rate readings come from an Apple Watch, so without one those fields stay empty — which is normal, not a fault.
There is no account
Forma has no sign-in, so there is no password to reset and nothing to recover from a server. Everything you log lives in a single file on your iPhone. That is deliberate, and it has one consequence worth understanding before you need it: if the app is deleted, the data goes with it.
Backing up, and moving to a new phone
Settings offers two ways to keep a copy:
- Export a backup hands a JSON file to the iOS share sheet, so you can send it anywhere you like.
- Automatic backup writes that same file into a folder you choose — in iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox or on the phone itself — on a schedule you set. Forma keeps the latest copy plus a few dated ones.
To move to a new phone, export a backup from the old one and import it on the new one. Importing a backup replaces everything currently in the app, so it restores a phone rather than merging two. Forma copies your existing file aside first, and asks before it proceeds.
Coming from another app
Forma imports Strong-style CSV exports, and unlike a backup import this one is additive — it adds the workouts to your log instead of replacing it. Exercise names are matched against Forma's library in both common naming styles, and anything genuinely unrecognised is created as a new exercise. Weights recorded in kilograms are converted to pounds on the way in.
Rest timer alerts
The rest chime plays even with the ring switch off, because it is an alert you are waiting on rather than media — and it ducks your music instead of stopping it. If rest ends while you are in another app, Forma hands the alert to a notification, so turn notifications on in Settings if you want that. Both alert types are off until you enable them.
Apple Health
Health sync is off until you turn it on. With it on, a finished workout is saved to Health as strength training, and Forma reads back the active energy and heart rate your watch recorded for that window.
Health often takes a few minutes to receive a session from the watch, so a workout may show no readings at first — the workout screen has a refresh for exactly that. Note that Forma does not write energy of its own: your activity rings stay the watch's own count, by design, so that the same session is not counted twice.