Follow the record’s time and connection
Check which workout the recovery card describes and when it finished. For plain water without an existing workout connection, Frewli uses the eligible workout that finished latest. A water entry already connected to a workout follows that connection. Daily volume can therefore differ from either workout’s recovery total.
1. Check the workout’s finish time
On Today’s recovery card, use View workout to identify the session. Check its activity, duration and date. In the manual Add workout form, Finished means the end of the session. Its start is worked out from Finished minus Duration.
A workout beginning before midnight can be grouped under its starting date even though its recovery window begins after midnight. Check the full session timing before concluding that water is missing. If the session is already imported from Health, keep one workout record.
2. Read the window from the finish
The checked timing rule runs from the workout’s finish through three hours later, including both endpoints. A session finishing at 09:00 has a 09:00–12:00 window. Water before the finish does not qualify through this rule.
The displayed 2–3 h range does not mean that recording must wait two hours. The check begins at the finish. It uses the water’s recorded time, so a workout that arrives later can pick up eligible earlier water without creating another daily drink.
Water already recorded inside the window does not stop contributing merely because the current clock passes the deadline. A later water record can still count toward the day while falling outside this workout’s window. These are app-record rules, not instructions about when or how much to drink.
3. Trace two overlapping windows
Imagine two workouts on one fictional day: A finishes at 09:00, so its window ends at 12:00; B finishes at 10:30, so its window ends at 13:30. Read the example after 13:31 on that same day, with both workout records present and not deleted. The following plain-water entries have no existing workout connection, are not deleted and are already in the daily record.
| Water record | Workout | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 08:59 · 150 mL | Neither | Before both finishes |
| 09:00 · 200 mL | A | A’s first boundary |
| 10:00 · 250 mL | A | B has not finished |
| 10:30 · 300 mL | B | Both qualify; B finished later |
| 12:00 · 150 mL | B | A still qualifies, but B finished later |
| 13:30 · 200 mL | B | B’s last boundary |
| 13:31 · 100 mL | Neither | After both windows |
During an overlap, the latest finish selects one eligible workout for an unconnected water record. The same entry is not inferred into both sessions. This table does not describe water explicitly logged for a particular workout.
4. Compare the totals on the same basis
Those seven records total 1,350 mL for the fictional day. A receives 450 mL; B receives 650 mL. The remaining 250 mL is still daily water, outside both windows.
The 1,100 mL shared by the recovery views is part of that same 1,350 mL daily record. It is not extra consumption. A difference between Today and one recovery card can be expected from timing alone; adding another copy would change the record rather than explain it.
5. Check the card before a new Today log
The latest-finished rule above applies to water without an existing workout connection. Add Water on Today can attach a new entry to the workout shown on its recovery card while that session is still eligible and has remaining fluid progress. A selected eligible workout can determine which card appears; the displayed card is not always the workout that finished latest.
In a separate example, A is selected while A and B are both within their windows. A new Today water log can stay connected to A even though B finished later. Do not use the unconnected-record table to predict that entry’s destination. Check the recovery card’s workout context before recording once.
6. Investigate a mismatch without another log
Check the workout’s finish and duration, the water’s actual recorded time, and whether the entry already has a workout connection. With multiple sessions, inspect the relevant workout rather than assuming the visible card summarizes every session.
Allow an expected import to arrive before manually duplicating it. Keep truthful dates and times; moving water into a window merely to change the recovery total makes the record less accurate. If the source or timing remains unclear, contact support with the app version and the mismatch, keeping private records out of public screenshots.
Recovery figures are estimates and tracking statuses. A remaining amount or incomplete card is not a measurement of your body or a reason to invent another drink entry.
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Download free for iPhonePrepared with AI assistance using Frewli’s plain-water timing rules, checked November 8, 2026. Record interpretation, not an intake recommendation. Contact Frewli support.