Your daily hydration goal can count plain water only, or every liquid you log. The choice is yours and it is one switch.
Where the switch is
- iPhone: You → Preferences → Hydration → Count all liquids
- Android: Health → Health Settings → Hydration → Count all liquids
- In a browser: Health → Settings → Diet & Macros → Count all liquids toward this goal
It is the same setting in all three places. Change it anywhere and it changes everywhere.
What counts when it is off
Plain water only, still or sparkling. Sparkling water counts as water in both states, because it is water.
This is the default, and it is what your goal has always meant.
What counts when it is on
Every liquid you log, at its own volume:
- Anything you tap on the water screen: water, sparkling water, coffee, tea, herbal tea, milk and dairy alternatives, juice, sports drinks, and soup or broth.
- Drinks you logged as food (a bottled tea from the food database, a can from a barcode scan, a coffee you typed in).
- The liquid ingredients inside a saved meal. If your protein shake contains a cup of milk, that cup is in your total when you log the shake.
Volumes count one for one: a 12 oz coffee adds 12 oz.
Beverages other than plain water contribute to total water intake, as described by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate (https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10925/dietary-reference-intakes-for-water-potassium-sodium-chloride-and-sulfate).
How to tell which mode you are in
The ring tells you. It is labeled Fluids while the setting is on and Water while it is off, on the hydration screen and on your dashboard. Underneath it, a breakdown shows what the total is made of, kind by kind.
Nothing you logged is ever rewritten
The switch changes what your goal adds up, never what you recorded. Turn it off and you get back the exact plain-water number you had. Turn it on again and the rest comes back. Your history is untouched either way.
The breakdown by kind is always shown in full, whichever way the switch is set, so you can track plain water as your goal and still see the tea you drank.
Marking your own drinks
A drink counts for its real size once Loopa knows what that size is. When you save a food of your own, switch on This is a liquid, pick the kind, and set the volume of one serving. Loopa fills the volume in for you when the serving already says it. "1 bottle (16.9 fl oz)" needs no typing.
Once an item is marked it counts every time you log it, including as an ingredient inside a meal, where it wears a droplet showing what it adds.
Your other health apps
Loopa writes your daily fluid total to Apple Health and Health Connect, so the figure they hold is the one on your screen. With the setting on that is your whole fluid total; with it off it is your water.
Related
- Focus targets. Follow up to three things inside your total.
