diff --git a/docs/api/openapi.yaml b/docs/api/openapi.yaml
index 72915fbc3..2eed38ee6 100644
--- a/docs/api/openapi.yaml
+++ b/docs/api/openapi.yaml
@@ -21350,6 +21350,9 @@ components:
           type: string
           minLength: 1
           maxLength: 60
+          description: "Apple's `HKUnit` string for `value`, captured for audit. The server does NOT convert from it: `value` is
+            read in the unit HealthLog stores the identifier in (`m` for walking distance, `kg` for body mass, `kcal`
+            for energy, `degC` for temperature). Send the sample in that unit."
         startDate:
           type: string
           format: date-time
diff --git a/docs/ops/apple-health-distance-repair.md b/docs/ops/apple-health-distance-repair.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1b9a10cb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/ops/apple-health-distance-repair.md
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+# Apple Health walking-distance repair
+
+`scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts` heals walking distances that the
+`export.zip` import stored a thousand times too small.
+
+## The defect
+
+Apple stamps every quantity `<Record>` in an `export.xml` with the account's
+own display unit: a metric archive reports `HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistance-
+WalkingRunning` in `km`, an imperial one in `mi`. Until this release the record
+mapping accepted that attribute and never read it, so the day's total was
+folded as if the number were already metres. A 2.484 km day landed as
+`2.484 m`, and an imported decade reads as a couple of metres walked. The
+workout path was never affected — it converted its own distance unit.
+
+The code fix converts the record's unit before storage, so every import from
+this release on is correct. This script is for the rows already in the
+database.
+
+## Prefer a re-import
+
+If the account still has its `export.zip`, **re-import it**. The archive fold
+UPSERTs the same `stats:<identifier>:<day>` rows, so a re-import on the fixed
+build rewrites every affected day with the right number, needs no flags, and
+also repairs rows this script deliberately leaves alone (see the criterion
+below). The script exists for accounts that no longer have the archive.
+
+**An account that has been re-imported must not then be repaired.** The
+re-import already fixed it. Its rows keep the same `EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX`
+stamp and the same `stats:` external id, and they carry no audit row, so the
+criterion selects them exactly as it selects a broken account — the stamp
+proves where a row came from, not which build imported it. Multiplying them
+again turns a 2.484 km day into 2484 km. The script refuses such an account on
+its own (any day whose value would leave the plausible range after the
+multiply stops the whole account), but that guard fires on the big days: keep
+the two apart yourself before you type `--apply`.
+
+## Which rows it touches
+
+Only rows carrying the stamp the archive importer itself writes:
+
+| Column                   | Value                                                        |
+| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `type`                   | `WALKING_RUNNING_DISTANCE`                                   |
+| `source`                 | `APPLE_HEALTH`                                               |
+| `aggregation_provenance` | `EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX`                                      |
+| `external_id`            | `stats:HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning:<day>` |
+| `deleted_at`             | `NULL`                                                       |
+
+`EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX` is written in exactly one place in the tree — the
+archive fold — and the `stats:` external id is minted for that same fold, so
+the pair is a proof of origin rather than a guess. Nothing is ever selected
+because a value "looks too small".
+
+Deliberately out of scope:
+
+- Rows a native iOS sync has since overwritten (`HEALTHKIT_STATISTICS`): their
+  value came from HealthKit's own statistics query and is correct.
+- Rows whose provenance is `LEGACY_UNKNOWN` or NULL: an archive origin cannot
+  be proven for them. Re-import the archive to repair those.
+
+## Run a dry-run first
+
+Always, and read it. The dry run is where the decision is made, not a
+formality in front of a decision already taken: it is the only place the
+script shows you real numbers from the account before it changes them. If the
+worked example does not match what that person's Health app shows for that day,
+the run is wrong and `--apply` will make it permanent.
+
+The default mode reports and never writes:
+
+```bash
+# from a source checkout, with DATABASE_URL pointing at the instance
+pnpm dlx tsx scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts
+```
+
+It prints one line per account: how many rows would be repaired, the date span
+they cover, one worked example (`2.484 m -> 2484 m`), and any row whose
+repaired value would leave the plausibility range.
+
+This script imports the application dependency graph, so it runs from a source
+checkout, not through the production image's `healthlog-tsx` launcher.
+
+## Name the archive's unit
+
+The stored row keeps no record of the unit its archive was written in — that
+is the defect — so the operator names it. `--unit=km` is the default and is
+what the Health app writes in every metric locale; pass `--unit=mi` for an
+imperial archive:
+
+```bash
+pnpm dlx tsx scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts --unit=mi
+```
+
+Check the dry-run's worked example against what the account's Health app shows
+for that day before applying. If the two units are mixed across accounts, run
+the script once per unit with `--apply` and confirm each account's example
+first.
+
+## Apply
+
+Take a backup first — `docs/ops/backup-restore.md`. The multiply is in place
+and has no reverse operation: once an account is written wrong, the database
+copy you took beforehand is the only way back.
+
+```bash
+pnpm dlx tsx scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts --apply
+```
+
+Per account, in one transaction: every selected row multiplied by the unit's
+metre factor, `sync_version` incremented and `updated_at` bumped so paired iOS
+clients pick the rows up on their next delta sync, and an audit row
+(`measurement.apple_health_distance.repaired`) recording the unit, the factor
+and the row count. The DAY/WEEK/MONTH/YEAR rollups and the cached status
+insights for the touched days are recomputed afterwards, outside that
+transaction.
+
+If that recompute fails, the rows are right and every chart is not, and no
+later run of this script would notice — it skips a repaired account. So the
+audit row is written with `rollupsRefreshed: false` and only flipped to `true`
+once the recompute has returned. A run that could not finish it prints the
+account and the command to re-run, exits non-zero, and a later dry run repeats
+the warning until the backfill has been run:
+
+```bash
+pnpm dlx tsx scripts/backfill-rollups.ts --user <userId>
+```
+
+A row whose repaired value would leave the plausible range (0–200 000 m)
+refuses the **whole account**: nothing is written, the offending rows and the
+reason are printed, and the run moves on to the next account. One such row is
+evidence the account is not the 1000x class — a re-imported account looks
+exactly like this — and repairing the rest of it would multiply days that were
+already right.
+
+## It runs once per account
+
+The audit row is written inside the same transaction as the update, and an
+account that carries it is skipped. A second run reports the account as already
+repaired and changes nothing, so the multiplier can never be applied twice.
+
+## Verify
+
+```sql
+SELECT date_trunc('year', measured_at) AS year,
+       round(avg(value)) AS avg_metres_per_day
+  FROM measurements
+ WHERE user_id = '<userId>'
+   AND type = 'WALKING_RUNNING_DISTANCE'
+   AND aggregation_provenance = 'EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX'
+ GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 1;
+```
+
+A plausible daily average is thousands of metres. Single digits mean the rows
+were not repaired; millions mean a factor was applied twice, which the audit
+row is there to prevent.
diff --git a/scripts/README.md b/scripts/README.md
index c4280328d..9eb2b0e6a 100644
--- a/scripts/README.md
+++ b/scripts/README.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ typecheck.
 - **`assert-deploy.ts`** — post-deploy `/api/version` assertion.
 - **`rotate-encryption-key.ts`** — AES-256-GCM key rotation; see `docs/ops/encryption-key-rotation.md`.
 - **`restore-backup.ts`** — restore an off-host AES-GCM backup from an S3-compatible bucket.
+- **`repair-apple-health-distance.ts`** — repair walking-distance rows the `export.zip` import stored 1000x too small; dry-run by default, see `docs/ops/apple-health-distance-repair.md`.
 - **`repair-intake-anomalies.ts`** — repair historic medication-ledger defects (duplicate dose-slot rows, implausible `taken_at`); dry-run by default, see `docs/ops/intake-repair.md`.
 - **`backfill-rollups.ts`**, **`drain-per-sample-cumulative.ts`**, **`backfill-mood-note-column.ts`** — historical data backfills (note: the boot-time `rollup-full-backfill` queue handles new accounts automatically; the CLI is the manual fallback).
 - **`seed-demo.ts`** + **`seed-demo-v15.sql`** — populate a demo tenant.
diff --git a/scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts b/scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..be77a3b8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+/**
+ * scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts — operator repair for walking
+ * distances the `export.zip` import stored 1000x too small (issue #944).
+ *
+ * THE DEFECT (fixed in code from this release): the `<Record>` mapping read
+ * the value but never the record's own `unit` attribute, so a walking-distance
+ * record Apple writes in the account's display unit (`km` on a metric archive,
+ * `mi` on an imperial one) was folded into the day's total as if the number
+ * were already metres. Ten years of history read as a couple of metres a day.
+ *
+ * WHICH ROWS: only the ones carrying the stamp the archive importer writes —
+ * `WALKING_RUNNING_DISTANCE` + `APPLE_HEALTH` + provenance
+ * `EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX` + a `stats:HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalking-
+ * Running:<day>` externalId. Never a guess from "the value looks small". Rows
+ * a native iOS sync has since overwritten carry `HEALTHKIT_STATISTICS` and are
+ * correct; rows whose provenance cannot prove an archive origin are left alone.
+ *
+ * If the account still has its `export.zip`, RE-IMPORTING it on the fixed build
+ * is the authoritative repair — the fold UPSERTs the same `stats:` rows with
+ * the right numbers. This script is for the accounts that no longer have it.
+ *
+ * SAFETY:
+ *   - Dry-run by DEFAULT: lists the candidate rows per account and exits.
+ *   - `--apply` writes, one transaction per account, and records an audit row
+ *     in that same transaction. An account carrying that row is skipped, so a
+ *     second run finds nothing.
+ *   - A row whose repaired value would leave the plausibility range refuses
+ *     the WHOLE account: one such row is evidence the rows are not the 1000x
+ *     class (an account re-imported on the fixed build looks exactly like
+ *     this), and its rest days would otherwise be multiplied again.
+ *   - The rollup/status tail runs after the transaction. If it throws, the
+ *     rows are repaired and the derived tier is not; the script names the
+ *     backfill to re-run, the audit row keeps `rollupsRefreshed: false` so a
+ *     later run can still see it, and the exit code is non-zero.
+ *   - `--unit=mi` for an imperial archive (default `km`). The stored row keeps
+ *     no record of the archive's unit — that is the defect — so the operator
+ *     names it; a mismatched unit is why the flag exists rather than a guess.
+ *
+ * RUN (never `pnpm tsx` — the standalone image strips tsx):
+ *   pnpm dlx tsx scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts                # dry run
+ *   pnpm dlx tsx scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts --apply
+ *   pnpm dlx tsx scripts/repair-apple-health-distance.ts --unit=mi --apply
+ */
+import "dotenv/config";
+
+import { prisma } from "@/lib/db";
+import {
+  applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair,
+  parseArchiveUnit,
+  planAppleHealthDistanceRepair,
+  repairFactorFor,
+  rollupRepairCommand,
+} from "@/lib/measurements/repair-apple-health-distance";
+
+function readArchiveUnit(): "km" | "mi" {
+  const flag = process.argv.find((arg) => arg.startsWith("--unit="));
+  if (!flag) return "km";
+  const parsed = parseArchiveUnit(flag.slice("--unit=".length));
+  if (!parsed) {
+    throw new Error(`Unsupported --unit value: ${flag}. Use km or mi.`);
+  }
+  return parsed;
+}
+
+async function main(): Promise<void> {
+  const apply = process.argv.includes("--apply");
+  const archiveUnit = readArchiveUnit();
+  const factor = repairFactorFor(archiveUnit);
+
+  const plans = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, { archiveUnit });
+  if (plans.length === 0) {
+    console.log(
+      "No export-imported walking-distance rows found — nothing to repair.",
+    );
+    return;
+  }
+
+  console.log(
+    `Archive unit ${archiveUnit} (x${factor} to metres). ` +
+      `${plans.length} account(s) carry export-imported walking distances.\n`,
+  );
+
+  let totalRepairable = 0;
+  let totalUpdated = 0;
+  let totalSkipped = 0;
+  let refused = 0;
+  let rollupsPending = 0;
+
+  for (const plan of plans) {
+    if (plan.alreadyRepairedAt) {
+      console.log(
+        `  • ${plan.userId}: already repaired on ` +
+          `${plan.alreadyRepairedAt.toISOString()} — ${plan.candidateCount} row(s) left alone.`,
+      );
+      if (plan.rollupsPending) {
+        rollupsPending += 1;
+        console.log(
+          "      ! rollups PENDING from that run: the DAY/WEEK/MONTH/YEAR " +
+            "buckets and the cached status insights still hold the " +
+            "pre-repair numbers.",
+        );
+        console.log(`        re-run: ${rollupRepairCommand(plan.userId)}`);
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    totalRepairable += plan.repairable.length;
+    const first = plan.repairable[0];
+    const last = plan.repairable[plan.repairable.length - 1];
+    console.log(
+      `  • ${plan.userId}: ${plan.repairable.length} row(s)` +
+        (first && last
+          ? ` from ${first.measuredAt.toISOString().slice(0, 10)} to ` +
+            `${last.measuredAt.toISOString().slice(0, 10)}`
+          : "") +
+        (plan.outOfRange.length > 0
+          ? `, ${plan.outOfRange.length} out of plausible range (skipped)`
+          : ""),
+    );
+    if (first) {
+      console.log(
+        `      e.g. ${first.id}: ${first.value} m -> ${first.value * factor} m`,
+      );
+    }
+    for (const row of plan.outOfRange) {
+      console.log(
+        `      ! ${row.id} (${row.measuredAt.toISOString().slice(0, 10)}): ` +
+          `${row.value} m x ${factor} leaves the plausible range`,
+      );
+    }
+    if (plan.outOfRange.length > 0) {
+      console.log(
+        "      ! this account will be REFUSED — see the reason under --apply",
+      );
+    }
+
+    if (!apply) continue;
+    const outcome = await applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, plan, {
+      archiveUnit,
+    });
+    totalUpdated += outcome.updated;
+    totalSkipped += outcome.skipped;
+    if (outcome.refusedReason) {
+      refused += 1;
+      console.log(`      ✗ refused: ${outcome.refusedReason}`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    console.log(
+      `      ✓ repaired ${outcome.updated} row(s), skipped ${outcome.skipped}`,
+    );
+    if (outcome.rollupsPending) {
+      rollupsPending += 1;
+      console.error(
+        `      ! ${plan.userId}: rows repaired, but the rollup refresh failed.`,
+      );
+      console.error(outcome.rollupError);
+      console.error(
+        "        The DAY/WEEK/MONTH/YEAR buckets and the cached status " +
+          "insights still hold the pre-repair numbers.",
+      );
+      console.error(`        re-run: ${rollupRepairCommand(plan.userId)}`);
+    }
+  }
+
+  console.log(
+    apply
+      ? `\nDone. ${totalUpdated} row(s) repaired, ${totalSkipped} skipped, ` +
+          `${refused} account(s) refused.`
+      : `\nDry run: ${totalRepairable} row(s) would be repaired. ` +
+          "Read the worked examples above and decide before re-running with " +
+          "--apply.",
+  );
+
+  if (rollupsPending > 0) {
+    // The rows are right and the derived tier is not, which no later run of
+    // this script will notice — it skips a repaired account. Fail loudly.
+    console.error(
+      `\n${rollupsPending} account(s) need the rollup backfill re-run ` +
+        "(commands above).",
+    );
+    process.exitCode = 1;
+  }
+}
+
+main()
+  .catch((err) => {
+    console.error(err);
+    process.exitCode = 1;
+  })
+  .finally(() => prisma.$disconnect());
diff --git a/src/__tests__/apple-health-unit-audit-guard.test.ts b/src/__tests__/apple-health-unit-audit-guard.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b8799aeaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/__tests__/apple-health-unit-audit-guard.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
+/**
+ * Structural guard on the Apple Health mapping table's unit column
+ * (issue #944).
+ *
+ * `AppleHealthMapping.hkUnit` records the unit HealthLog ASSUMES a
+ * HealthKit reading arrives in, and `convertToDbUnit` is written against
+ * that assumption. Apple's `export.xml` does not honour it: every quantity
+ * `<Record>` carries the account's own display unit, so a metric archive
+ * reports walking distance in `km` and an imperial one in `mi`. For ten
+ * years those readings were stored as if the number were already metres —
+ * the whole history understated by a factor of a thousand — because the
+ * mapper accepted `input.unit` and never read it.
+ *
+ * So an entry now has exactly two legal shapes:
+ *
+ *   1. its `hkUnit` is one `convertHkValue()` knows a factor for, in which
+ *      case `mapAppleHealthEntry()` converts a differing record unit into
+ *      it before `convertToDbUnit` runs; or
+ *   2. it carries a written `unitFixedReason` saying why no unit attribute
+ *      Apple could write would change the reading (a dimensionless count,
+ *      a pinned event, a logarithmic dB level, a compound rate).
+ *
+ * The conversion is opt-in per caller (`convertRecordUnit`), and only the
+ * archive path opts in: `POST /api/measurements/batch` documents its `unit`
+ * as captured-not-validated and nothing pins the native client's strings.
+ * The last block below holds that boundary, so the batch contract cannot be
+ * widened by accident.
+ *
+ * The reason arm alone would be a guard that cannot fail: an entry could
+ * declare a convertible unit while the mapper quietly ignored it. The
+ * behavioural block below therefore feeds every convertible entry a
+ * reading in a SIBLING unit and asserts the stored number moved by the
+ * documented factor — so deleting the conversion turns this guard red,
+ * not just the one reproduction test.
+ *
+ * A tripwire, not a proof: a reviewer who waves through a wrong factor
+ * defeats it.
+ */
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import {
+  APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP,
+  mapAppleHealthEntry,
+} from "@/lib/measurements/apple-health-mapping";
+import {
+  convertHkValue,
+  isConvertibleHkUnit,
+} from "@/lib/measurements/hk-units";
+
+const ENTRIES = Object.values(APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP);
+
+/**
+ * Units from every family the table touches. The behavioural block picks
+ * the first one that converts into an entry's `hkUnit` and actually moves
+ * the number, so a new family only needs one representative here.
+ */
+const SIBLING_UNITS = [
+  "km",
+  "mi",
+  "cm",
+  "lb",
+  "st",
+  "kJ",
+  "cal",
+  "degF",
+  "K",
+  "mmol<180.156>/L",
+  "kPa",
+  "km/hr",
+  "hr",
+  "ms",
+];
+
+function siblingUnitFor(hkUnit: string): string | null {
+  for (const candidate of SIBLING_UNITS) {
+    const converted = convertHkValue(1, candidate, hkUnit);
+    if (converted !== null && converted !== 1) return candidate;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+describe("Apple Health mapping — the record's own unit (issue #944)", () => {
+  it("examines the whole mapping table", () => {
+    // An empty match set is the failure mode this repo keeps rediscovering:
+    // a guard is green because it matched nothing, not because nothing is
+    // wrong. Pin the floor.
+    expect(ENTRIES.length).toBeGreaterThan(40);
+  });
+
+  it.each(ENTRIES)(
+    "$hkIdentifier either converts its record unit or says why it cannot",
+    (mapping) => {
+      if (isConvertibleHkUnit(mapping.hkUnit)) {
+        expect(mapping.unitFixedReason).toBeUndefined();
+        return;
+      }
+      expect(
+        mapping.unitFixedReason,
+        `${mapping.hkIdentifier} pins hkUnit "${mapping.hkUnit}" with no conversion and no written reason`,
+      ).toBeTypeOf("string");
+      // Long enough to be a sentence rather than a shrug.
+      expect(mapping.unitFixedReason!.length).toBeGreaterThan(40);
+    },
+  );
+
+  const convertible = ENTRIES.filter((mapping) =>
+    isConvertibleHkUnit(mapping.hkUnit),
+  );
+
+  it("has convertible entries to exercise", () => {
+    expect(convertible.length).toBeGreaterThan(10);
+  });
+
+  it.each(convertible)(
+    "$hkIdentifier honours a sibling unit on the record itself",
+    (mapping) => {
+      const sibling = siblingUnitFor(mapping.hkUnit);
+      expect(
+        sibling,
+        `no sibling unit listed for the family of "${mapping.hkUnit}"`,
+      ).not.toBeNull();
+
+      const base = {
+        hkIdentifier: mapping.hkIdentifier,
+        value: 2,
+        startDate: "2026-05-14T08:00:00.000Z",
+        endDate: "2026-05-14T08:30:00.000Z",
+      };
+      const native = mapAppleHealthEntry(
+        { ...base, unit: mapping.hkUnit },
+        { convertRecordUnit: true },
+      );
+      const foreign = mapAppleHealthEntry(
+        { ...base, unit: sibling! },
+        { convertRecordUnit: true },
+      );
+      expect(native).not.toBeNull();
+      expect(foreign).not.toBeNull();
+
+      const expected = mapping.convertToDbUnit(
+        convertHkValue(2, sibling!, mapping.hkUnit)!,
+      );
+      expect(foreign!.value).toBeCloseTo(expected, 9);
+      expect(foreign!.value).not.toBeCloseTo(native!.value, 9);
+    },
+  );
+
+  it("keeps a unit it cannot place from rescaling the reading", () => {
+    const out = mapAppleHealthEntry(
+      {
+        hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning",
+        value: 1234,
+        unit: "furlong",
+        startDate: "2026-05-14T08:00:00.000Z",
+        endDate: "2026-05-14T08:30:00.000Z",
+      },
+      { convertRecordUnit: true },
+    );
+    expect(out?.value).toBe(1234);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves the batch path's readings alone whatever unit they name", () => {
+    // The batch contract: `unit` is captured, never read. Every convertible
+    // entry has to behave that way by DEFAULT, or a native client stamping
+    // the person's display unit silently rescales their history.
+    for (const mapping of convertible) {
+      const sibling = siblingUnitFor(mapping.hkUnit);
+      if (!sibling) continue;
+      const base = {
+        hkIdentifier: mapping.hkIdentifier,
+        value: 2,
+        startDate: "2026-05-14T08:00:00.000Z",
+        endDate: "2026-05-14T08:30:00.000Z",
+      };
+      const declared = mapAppleHealthEntry({ ...base, unit: mapping.hkUnit });
+      const foreign = mapAppleHealthEntry({ ...base, unit: sibling });
+      expect(declared).not.toBeNull();
+      expect(
+        foreign!.value,
+        `${mapping.hkIdentifier} rescaled a batch reading from "${sibling}"`,
+      ).toBeCloseTo(declared!.value, 9);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("has only the archive path opting into the conversion", () => {
+    // A grep, not a proof — but the wire change this pins is exactly the
+    // kind that lands as a one-word argument in an unrelated diff.
+    const optIn = "convertRecordUnit: true";
+    const archive = readFileSync(
+      join(process.cwd(), "src/lib/measurements/import-apple-health-export.ts"),
+      "utf8",
+    );
+    expect(archive).toContain(optIn);
+    const batch = readFileSync(
+      join(process.cwd(), "src/app/api/measurements/batch/route.ts"),
+      "utf8",
+    );
+    expect(
+      batch,
+      "the batch route opted into record-unit conversion",
+    ).not.toContain("convertRecordUnit");
+  });
+
+  it("leaves the km/mi factors in one shared module", () => {
+    // The workout path used to carry its own copy of the km/mi branch; the
+    // duplicate is what let the `<Record>` path stay wrong for ten years.
+    //
+    // `* 1000` alone is not the offence — these files also turn seconds into
+    // milliseconds — so a rescale only counts when it stands in a LENGTH
+    // context: a distance identifier on the same line, or within the five
+    // lines above it (which covers a rescale in the body of a
+    // distance-named helper). The limit is the usual one for a matcher of
+    // this shape: a length conversion inside a helper named nothing like a
+    // distance, more than five lines below its own signature, slips it.
+    const shared = join(process.cwd(), "src/lib/measurements/hk-units.ts");
+    const owners = [
+      "src/lib/measurements/apple-health-mapping.ts",
+      "src/lib/measurements/import-apple-health-export.ts",
+    ];
+    expect(readFileSync(shared, "utf8")).toContain("1609.344");
+
+    const RESCALE = /\*\s*1_?000(?!\d)/;
+    const LENGTH = /distance|metre|meter|\bkm\b/i;
+    for (const rel of owners) {
+      const source = readFileSync(join(process.cwd(), rel), "utf8");
+      expect(source, `${rel} re-implements the mile factor`).not.toContain(
+        "1609.344",
+      );
+      const lines = source.split("\n");
+      const offenders = lines
+        .map((line, i) => ({ line, i }))
+        .filter(
+          ({ line, i }) =>
+            RESCALE.test(line) &&
+            lines.slice(Math.max(0, i - 5), i + 1).some((l) => LENGTH.test(l)),
+        )
+        .map(({ line, i }) => `${rel}:${i + 1}: ${line.trim()}`);
+      expect(
+        offenders,
+        `${rel} re-implements a length factor — the km/mi conversion belongs in hk-units.ts`,
+      ).toEqual([]);
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/apple-health-mapping.test.ts b/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/apple-health-mapping.test.ts
index f57427ded..3dd28a7e9 100644
--- a/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/apple-health-mapping.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/apple-health-mapping.test.ts
@@ -390,6 +390,38 @@ describe("mapAppleHealthEntry", () => {
     expect(out!.takenAt.toISOString()).toBe(ts);
   });
 
+  it("stores a batch reading in the unit the table assumes, whatever `unit` says", () => {
+    // issue #944 — the batch route's `unit` is captured for audit and never
+    // read. A client that stamps the person's DISPLAY unit into the field
+    // must not have its metres multiplied by a thousand: the conversion is
+    // opt-in and only the `export.xml` path opts in.
+    const out = mapAppleHealthEntry({
+      hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning",
+      value: 2484,
+      unit: "km",
+      startDate: ts,
+      endDate: ts,
+    });
+    expect(out).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(out!.value).toBe(2484);
+    expect(out!.unit).toBe("m");
+  });
+
+  it("converts out of the record's own unit when the caller opts in", () => {
+    const out = mapAppleHealthEntry(
+      {
+        hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning",
+        value: 2.484,
+        unit: "km",
+        startDate: ts,
+        endDate: ts,
+      },
+      { convertRecordUnit: true },
+    );
+    expect(out).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(out!.value).toBeCloseTo(2484, 9);
+  });
+
   it("applies the unit conversion for fraction-shaped quantities", () => {
     const out = mapAppleHealthEntry({
       hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierOxygenSaturation",
diff --git a/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/hk-units.test.ts b/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/hk-units.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b1162fb6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/hk-units.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+
+import {
+  convertHkValue,
+  hkDistanceToMetres,
+  isConvertibleHkUnit,
+} from "../hk-units";
+
+describe("convertHkValue", () => {
+  it("converts the km reading Apple writes on a metric archive", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(2.484, "km", "m")).toBeCloseTo(2484, 9);
+  });
+
+  it("converts the mi reading Apple writes on an imperial archive", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(1.543, "mi", "m")).toBeCloseTo(2483.217792, 9);
+  });
+
+  it("returns the reading untouched when the units already agree", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(2.484, "m", "m")).toBe(2.484);
+  });
+
+  it("converts mass, energy and temperature the same way", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(180, "lb", "kg")).toBeCloseTo(81.6466266, 6);
+    expect(convertHkValue(1000, "kJ", "kcal")).toBeCloseTo(239.005736, 6);
+    expect(convertHkValue(98.6, "degF", "degC")).toBeCloseTo(37, 9);
+  });
+
+  it("strips the molar mass Apple annotates a glucose unit with", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(5.5, "mmol<180.156>/L", "mg/dL")).toBeCloseTo(
+      99.0858,
+      4,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the small calorie apart from the large one", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(1, "Cal", "kcal")).toBe(1);
+    expect(convertHkValue(1000, "cal", "kcal")).toBeCloseTo(1, 9);
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a unit it cannot place rather than guessing", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(1, "furlong", "m")).toBeNull();
+    expect(convertHkValue(1, "", "m")).toBeNull();
+    expect(convertHkValue(1, undefined, "m")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("refuses to cross families", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(1, "kg", "m")).toBeNull();
+    expect(convertHkValue(1, "min", "kcal")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("refuses a non-finite reading", () => {
+    expect(convertHkValue(Number.NaN, "km", "m")).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("hkDistanceToMetres", () => {
+  it("converts the workout distance units Apple ships", () => {
+    expect(hkDistanceToMetres(6.5, "km")).toBeCloseTo(6500, 9);
+    expect(hkDistanceToMetres(3, "mi")).toBeCloseTo(4828.032, 9);
+    expect(hkDistanceToMetres(500, "m")).toBe(500);
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to the raw number for a missing unit attribute", () => {
+    expect(hkDistanceToMetres(500, "")).toBe(500);
+    expect(hkDistanceToMetres(500, undefined)).toBe(500);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("isConvertibleHkUnit", () => {
+  it("recognises the units the mapping table pins", () => {
+    expect(isConvertibleHkUnit("m")).toBe(true);
+    expect(isConvertibleHkUnit("kg")).toBe(true);
+    expect(isConvertibleHkUnit("count")).toBe(false);
+    expect(isConvertibleHkUnit("event")).toBe(false);
+    expect(isConvertibleHkUnit("%")).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/import-apple-health-export.test.ts b/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/import-apple-health-export.test.ts
index ddb4c3c6c..607a332b2 100644
--- a/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/import-apple-health-export.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/measurements/__tests__/import-apple-health-export.test.ts
@@ -1278,3 +1278,67 @@ describe("streamParseExportXml — the archive's own export stamp", () => {
     expect(stamps).toEqual([]);
   });
 });
+
+describe("streamParseExportXml — the record's own unit (issue #944)", () => {
+  it("stores a km-scale walking distance in metres", async () => {
+    const { prisma } = await importCumulativeFixture(
+      cumulativeExportXml(
+        "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning",
+        "km",
+        [{ value: 2.484, sourceName: "iPhone", hour: 8 }],
+      ),
+    );
+
+    expect(prisma._measurements).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(prisma._measurements[0]).toMatchObject({
+      type: "WALKING_RUNNING_DISTANCE",
+      unit: "m",
+    });
+    expect(prisma._measurements[0].value).toBeCloseTo(2484, 6);
+  });
+
+  it("stores a kilojoule workout burn in kilocalories", async () => {
+    const tmp = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "healthlog-parser-energy-test-"));
+    const xmlPath = join(tmp, "export.xml");
+    writeFileSync(
+      xmlPath,
+      `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<HealthData locale="en_AU">
+  <Workout workoutActivityType="HKWorkoutActivityTypeRunning"
+           duration="42.0"
+           durationUnit="min"
+           totalDistance="6.5"
+           totalDistanceUnit="km"
+           totalEnergyBurned="1724"
+           totalEnergyBurnedUnit="kJ"
+           startDate="2026-05-14 18:00:00 +0200"
+           endDate="2026-05-14 18:42:00 +0200"
+           sourceName="Apple Watch"/>
+</HealthData>`,
+    );
+    const prisma = makeFakePrisma();
+    await streamParseExportXml({
+      xmlPath,
+      userId: "user-energy",
+      userTimezone: "Europe/Berlin",
+      prisma: prisma as unknown as PrismaClient,
+    });
+
+    expect(prisma._workouts).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(prisma._workouts[0].totalDistanceM).toBeCloseTo(6500, 6);
+    expect(prisma._workouts[0].totalEnergyKcal).toBeCloseTo(412.0458891, 6);
+  });
+
+  it("stores a mile-scale walking distance in metres", async () => {
+    const { prisma } = await importCumulativeFixture(
+      cumulativeExportXml(
+        "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning",
+        "mi",
+        [{ value: 1.543, sourceName: "iPhone", hour: 8 }],
+      ),
+    );
+
+    expect(prisma._measurements).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(prisma._measurements[0].value).toBeCloseTo(2483.217792, 6);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/measurements/apple-health-mapping.ts b/src/lib/measurements/apple-health-mapping.ts
index e665b18bd..f090a7065 100644
--- a/src/lib/measurements/apple-health-mapping.ts
+++ b/src/lib/measurements/apple-health-mapping.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import type {
   SleepStage,
   RhythmClassification,
 } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
+import { convertHkValue } from "./hk-units";
 
 /**
  * How a batch of HealthKit samples for the same identifier should be
@@ -47,6 +48,22 @@ export interface AppleHealthMapping {
   measurementType: MeasurementType;
   /** Apple's HK unit string (e.g. `kg`, `count/min`, `mL/(kg*min)`). */
   hkUnit: string;
+  /**
+   * issue #944 — why this entry's `hkUnit` can be trusted as fixed.
+   *
+   * Apple's `export.xml` writes the ACCOUNT's display unit on every
+   * quantity `<Record>`, not the unit this table assumes, so
+   * `mapAppleHealthEntry()` converts the reading from the record's own
+   * unit into `hkUnit` before `convertToDbUnit` runs — on the archive
+   * path, which is the caller that opts in. That only works for a unit
+   * `convertHkValue()` knows a factor for. An entry whose `hkUnit`
+   * is NOT convertible (a dimensionless count, a pinned event, a
+   * logarithmic dB level, a compound rate) must say here why no record
+   * unit can change its reading — the structural guard
+   * `src/__tests__/apple-health-unit-audit-guard.test.ts` fails on an
+   * entry that offers neither.
+   */
+  unitFixedReason?: string;
   /** HealthLog canonical DB unit (must match `getUnitForType()`). */
   dbUnit: string;
   /** Convert a HK sample value into the canonical DB unit. Identity for most. */
@@ -189,6 +206,28 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_SLEEP_STAGE_MAP: Record<number, SleepStage> = {
  * metric: check Apple's HK unit; percent → ×100 path, m/m·s/kg/etc
  * → identity path.
  */
+/**
+ * issue #944 — the written reasons a mapping entry may cite for keeping a
+ * fixed `hkUnit`. Each one answers the same question: what could Apple
+ * possibly write in this record's `unit` attribute that would change the
+ * reading? Shared constants rather than free text so the audit reads as
+ * one decision per class instead of forty near-duplicates.
+ */
+const UNIT_FIXED_DIMENSIONLESS_COUNT =
+  "Dimensionless tally: Apple emits `count` in every locale and HKUnit has no sibling spelling for it, so no record unit can rescale the reading.";
+const UNIT_FIXED_PER_MINUTE =
+  "Per-minute rate: Apple emits `count/min` in every locale and the Health app offers no alternative display unit, so there is nothing to convert from.";
+const UNIT_FIXED_PERCENT_FRACTION =
+  "Apple writes the percent unit but the VALUE rides as a 0..1 fraction; the x100 in `convertToDbUnit` already covers both spellings, so branching on the record unit would double-scale it.";
+const UNIT_FIXED_EVENT_PIN =
+  "Categorical event: `convertToDbUnit` pins the stored value to 1 fired event regardless of the reading, so no unit attribute can move it.";
+const UNIT_FIXED_AUDIO_SPL =
+  "Sound-pressure level: Apple emits `dBASPL` only, and a decibel is logarithmic — a sibling unit would need its own formula, never a factor.";
+const UNIT_FIXED_COMPOSITE_VO2 =
+  "Compound rate Apple emits verbatim as `mL/(kg*min)`; the Health app exposes no other spelling and the compound has no sibling unit to convert from.";
+const UNIT_FIXED_SLEEP_CATEGORY =
+  "Sleep samples carry a symbolic category value, not a quantity: the importer derives the duration in minutes from the sample's own dates, so the record's unit attribute (empty in Apple's archive) says nothing about the reading.";
+
 export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
   // ── Body composition ────────────────────────────────────────
   HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBodyMass: {
@@ -203,6 +242,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBodyFatPercentage",
     measurementType: "BODY_FAT",
     hkUnit: "%",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PERCENT_FRACTION,
     dbUnit: "%",
     // Apple ships 0..1 fraction; HealthLog stores 0..100.
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v * 100,
@@ -254,6 +294,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierHeartRate",
     measurementType: "PULSE",
     hkUnit: "count/min",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PER_MINUTE,
     dbUnit: "bpm",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "latest",
@@ -262,6 +303,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierRestingHeartRate",
     measurementType: "RESTING_HEART_RATE",
     hkUnit: "count/min",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PER_MINUTE,
     dbUnit: "bpm",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "latest",
@@ -284,6 +326,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     // duplication; see `.planning/phase-W1-v1423-research.md`).
     measurementType: "ACTIVITY_STEPS",
     hkUnit: "count",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_DIMENSIONLESS_COUNT,
     dbUnit: "steps",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -300,6 +343,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierFlightsClimbed",
     measurementType: "FLIGHTS_CLIMBED",
     hkUnit: "count",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_DIMENSIONLESS_COUNT,
     dbUnit: "flights",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -318,6 +362,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierVO2Max",
     measurementType: "VO2_MAX",
     hkUnit: "mL/(kg*min)",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_COMPOSITE_VO2,
     dbUnit: "mL/(kg·min)",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "latest",
@@ -337,6 +382,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierOxygenSaturation",
     measurementType: "OXYGEN_SATURATION",
     hkUnit: "fraction",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PERCENT_FRACTION,
     dbUnit: "%",
     // Apple ships 0..1 fraction; HealthLog stores 0..100.
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v * 100,
@@ -348,6 +394,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKCategoryTypeIdentifierSleepAnalysis",
     measurementType: "SLEEP_DURATION",
     hkUnit: "category",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_SLEEP_CATEGORY,
     dbUnit: "minutes",
     // value here is duration-in-minutes (caller computes
     // `endDate - startDate` and converts to minutes); the per-stage
@@ -367,6 +414,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierEnvironmentalAudioExposure",
     measurementType: "AUDIO_EXPOSURE_ENV",
     hkUnit: "dBASPL",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_AUDIO_SPL,
     dbUnit: "dBA",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "mean",
@@ -379,6 +427,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierHeadphoneAudioExposure",
     measurementType: "AUDIO_EXPOSURE_HEADPHONE",
     hkUnit: "dBASPL",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_AUDIO_SPL,
     dbUnit: "dBA",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "mean",
@@ -403,6 +452,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierAppleWalkingSteadiness",
     measurementType: "WALKING_STEADINESS",
     hkUnit: "%",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PERCENT_FRACTION,
     dbUnit: "%",
     // Apple ships 0..1 fraction; HealthLog stores 0..100.
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v * 100,
@@ -416,6 +466,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKCategoryTypeIdentifierEnvironmentalAudioExposureEvent",
     measurementType: "AUDIO_EXPOSURE_EVENT",
     hkUnit: "count",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_EVENT_PIN,
     dbUnit: "count",
     convertToDbUnit: () => 1,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -427,6 +478,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKCategoryTypeIdentifierHeadphoneAudioExposureEvent",
     measurementType: "AUDIO_EXPOSURE_EVENT",
     hkUnit: "count",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_EVENT_PIN,
     dbUnit: "count",
     convertToDbUnit: () => 1,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -449,6 +501,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKCategoryTypeIdentifierIrregularHeartRhythmEvent",
     measurementType: "IRREGULAR_RHYTHM_NOTIFICATION",
     hkUnit: "event",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_EVENT_PIN,
     dbUnit: "event",
     convertToDbUnit: () => 1,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -462,6 +515,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKCategoryTypeIdentifierHighHeartRateEvent",
     measurementType: "HIGH_HEART_RATE_EVENT",
     hkUnit: "event",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_EVENT_PIN,
     dbUnit: "event",
     convertToDbUnit: () => 1,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -474,6 +528,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKCategoryTypeIdentifierLowHeartRateEvent",
     measurementType: "LOW_HEART_RATE_EVENT",
     hkUnit: "event",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_EVENT_PIN,
     dbUnit: "event",
     convertToDbUnit: () => 1,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -487,6 +542,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKCategoryTypeIdentifierAppleWalkingSteadinessEvent",
     measurementType: "WALKING_STEADINESS_EVENT",
     hkUnit: "event",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_EVENT_PIN,
     dbUnit: "event",
     convertToDbUnit: () => 1,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -501,6 +557,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKCategoryTypeIdentifierSleepApneaEvent",
     measurementType: "BREATHING_DISTURBANCE_EVENT",
     hkUnit: "event",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_EVENT_PIN,
     dbUnit: "event",
     convertToDbUnit: () => 1,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -524,6 +581,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierRespiratoryRate",
     measurementType: "RESPIRATORY_RATE",
     hkUnit: "count/min",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PER_MINUTE,
     dbUnit: "breaths/min",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "mean",
@@ -537,6 +595,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBodyMassIndex",
     measurementType: "BODY_MASS_INDEX",
     hkUnit: "count",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_DIMENSIONLESS_COUNT,
     dbUnit: "kg/m²",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "latest",
@@ -557,6 +616,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierWalkingHeartRateAverage",
     measurementType: "WALKING_HEART_RATE_AVERAGE",
     hkUnit: "count/min",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PER_MINUTE,
     dbUnit: "bpm",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "mean",
@@ -570,6 +630,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierWalkingAsymmetryPercentage",
     measurementType: "WALKING_ASYMMETRY",
     hkUnit: "%",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PERCENT_FRACTION,
     dbUnit: "%",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v * 100,
     aggregation: "latest",
@@ -580,6 +641,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierWalkingDoubleSupportPercentage",
     measurementType: "WALKING_DOUBLE_SUPPORT",
     hkUnit: "%",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PERCENT_FRACTION,
     dbUnit: "%",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v * 100,
     aggregation: "latest",
@@ -622,6 +684,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierHeartRateRecoveryOneMinute",
     measurementType: "CARDIO_RECOVERY",
     hkUnit: "count/min",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_PER_MINUTE,
     dbUnit: "bpm",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "latest",
@@ -645,6 +708,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierNumberOfTimesFallen",
     measurementType: "FALL_COUNT",
     hkUnit: "count",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_DIMENSIONLESS_COUNT,
     dbUnit: "count",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "sum",
@@ -685,6 +749,7 @@ export const APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP: Record<string, AppleHealthMapping> = {
     hkIdentifier: "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierAppleSleepingBreathingDisturbances",
     measurementType: "BREATHING_DISTURBANCES",
     hkUnit: "count",
+    unitFixedReason: UNIT_FIXED_DIMENSIONLESS_COUNT,
     dbUnit: "count",
     convertToDbUnit: (v) => v,
     aggregation: "latest",
@@ -1140,7 +1205,14 @@ export interface AppleHealthEntryInput {
   hkIdentifier: string;
   /** Numeric value as Apple delivers it (pre-conversion). */
   value: number;
-  /** Apple's unit string, captured for audit; not currently validated. */
+  /**
+   * Apple's unit string for this reading, captured for audit.
+   *
+   * Read ONLY when the caller opts in with `convertRecordUnit` — see
+   * `AppleHealthEntryOptions`. Every other caller gets the historical
+   * contract: the field is recorded and the reading is taken to already
+   * be in the table's `hkUnit`.
+   */
   unit: string;
   /** ISO timestamp string (e.g. HealthKit `startDate`). */
   startDate: string;
@@ -1175,6 +1247,33 @@ export interface AppleHealthEntryInput {
   valueMax?: number;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Per-call options for `mapAppleHealthEntry()`.
+ */
+export interface AppleHealthEntryOptions {
+  /**
+   * Convert the reading out of `input.unit` and into the table's `hkUnit`
+   * before `convertToDbUnit` runs. Default FALSE.
+   *
+   * issue #944 — only the `export.xml` archive path passes `true`, because
+   * only there is the unit attribute known to be authoritative: Apple
+   * stamps every quantity `<Record>` with the ACCOUNT's display unit, so a
+   * metric archive reports walking distance in `km` and the number is
+   * meaningless without it.
+   *
+   * `POST /api/measurements/batch` deliberately does NOT opt in. Its `unit`
+   * is documented as captured-for-audit, not validated, and the native
+   * client's unit strings for the seventeen convertible identifiers are not
+   * pinned by anything in this repository — no fixture, no contract test, no
+   * coordination note. A client that reads a sample in metres and stamps the
+   * person's DISPLAY unit (`km`) into the field would have every walking
+   * distance multiplied by a thousand on ingest. Reading the field there is
+   * a wire change, and a wire change needs the client's strings pinned
+   * first.
+   */
+  convertRecordUnit?: boolean;
+}
+
 /** Output of `mapAppleHealthEntry()`. */
 export interface AppleHealthEntryOutput {
   type: MeasurementType;
@@ -1214,6 +1313,7 @@ export interface AppleHealthEntryOutput {
  */
 export function mapAppleHealthEntry(
   input: AppleHealthEntryInput,
+  options: AppleHealthEntryOptions = {},
 ): AppleHealthEntryOutput | null {
   const mapping = APPLE_HEALTH_TYPE_MAP[input.hkIdentifier];
   if (!mapping) return null;
@@ -1221,7 +1321,20 @@ export function mapAppleHealthEntry(
   const takenAt = new Date(input.endDate);
   if (Number.isNaN(takenAt.getTime())) return null;
 
-  const value = mapping.convertToDbUnit(input.value);
+  // issue #944 — `convertToDbUnit` is written against the table's fixed
+  // `hkUnit`, but Apple's `export.xml` stamps each `<Record>` with the
+  // ACCOUNT's own display unit: a metric archive reports walking distance
+  // in `km`, an imperial one in `mi`, body mass in `lb`, energy in `kJ`.
+  // The archive path opts in and the reading is normalised into `hkUnit`
+  // first; a unit we cannot place leaves the value untouched (see
+  // `convertHkValue`). Every other caller keeps the identity behaviour —
+  // see `AppleHealthEntryOptions.convertRecordUnit` for why.
+  const toHkUnit = (raw: number): number =>
+    options.convertRecordUnit
+      ? (convertHkValue(raw, input.unit, mapping.hkUnit) ?? raw)
+      : raw;
+
+  const value = mapping.convertToDbUnit(toHkUnit(input.value));
 
   const out: AppleHealthEntryOutput = {
     type: mapping.measurementType,
@@ -1235,10 +1348,10 @@ export function mapAppleHealthEntry(
   // hourly HR bucket). A finite check guards a malformed payload; the
   // caller only persists these on the HR-bucket row.
   if (typeof input.valueMin === "number" && Number.isFinite(input.valueMin)) {
-    out.valueMin = mapping.convertToDbUnit(input.valueMin);
+    out.valueMin = mapping.convertToDbUnit(toHkUnit(input.valueMin));
   }
   if (typeof input.valueMax === "number" && Number.isFinite(input.valueMax)) {
-    out.valueMax = mapping.convertToDbUnit(input.valueMax);
+    out.valueMax = mapping.convertToDbUnit(toHkUnit(input.valueMax));
   }
 
   if (mapping.sleepStageMap) {
diff --git a/src/lib/measurements/hk-units.ts b/src/lib/measurements/hk-units.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f500be22d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/measurements/hk-units.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+/**
+ * HealthKit unit normalisation (issue #944).
+ *
+ * Apple writes a `unit` attribute on every quantity `<Record>` of an
+ * `export.xml` archive, and the string it writes is the account's OWN
+ * display unit rather than the unit HealthLog's mapping table assumes:
+ * a metric account exports walking distance as `km`, an imperial one as
+ * `mi`, and the same split shows up on body mass (`kg` / `lb` / `st`),
+ * energy (`kcal` / `kJ`) and temperature (`degC` / `degF`).
+ *
+ * Before this module the export import fed the raw number straight into
+ * `AppleHealthMapping.convertToDbUnit`, which is written against the
+ * table's fixed `hkUnit` — so a 2.484 km day was stored as 2.484 m. The
+ * workout path had a hand-rolled km/mi→m branch of its own; both paths
+ * now share `convertHkValue()`.
+ *
+ * Contract, deliberately conservative:
+ *
+ *   - Same unit in and out → the value is returned untouched, so an
+ *     archive (or an iOS batch) that already speaks the table's unit is
+ *     byte-for-byte unchanged.
+ *   - Unknown unit, empty unit, or two units from different families →
+ *     `null`, and every caller falls back to the raw value. A unit we
+ *     cannot prove a factor for must never silently rescale a reading.
+ *   - Only units Apple's `HKUnit` can actually emit are listed. A unit
+ *     string is matched exactly (after trimming and after stripping the
+ *     molar-mass annotation Apple writes on glucose), never lower-cased:
+ *     `cal` (small calorie) and `Cal` (kilocalorie) are different units
+ *     that differ only in case.
+ */
+
+interface HkUnitSpec {
+  /** Units convert only within one family. */
+  family: string;
+  /** This unit → the family's base unit. */
+  toBase: (value: number) => number;
+  /** The family's base unit → this unit. */
+  fromBase: (value: number) => number;
+}
+
+/** A unit that is a plain multiple of its family's base unit. */
+function scaled(family: string, perBase: number): HkUnitSpec {
+  return {
+    family,
+    toBase: (value) => value * perBase,
+    fromBase: (value) => value / perBase,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Every unit string Apple emits that HealthLog can convert, keyed by the
+ * exact `HKUnit.unitString` spelling. Base units: metre, kilogram,
+ * kilocalorie, second, degree Celsius, mmHg, mg/dL, metres per second.
+ */
+const HK_UNITS: Record<string, HkUnitSpec> = {
+  // ── Length (base: metre) ───────────────────────────────────
+  m: scaled("length", 1),
+  km: scaled("length", 1000),
+  cm: scaled("length", 0.01),
+  mm: scaled("length", 0.001),
+  in: scaled("length", 0.0254),
+  ft: scaled("length", 0.3048),
+  yd: scaled("length", 0.9144),
+  mi: scaled("length", 1609.344),
+
+  // ── Mass (base: kilogram) ──────────────────────────────────
+  kg: scaled("mass", 1),
+  g: scaled("mass", 0.001),
+  lb: scaled("mass", 0.45359237),
+  oz: scaled("mass", 0.028349523125),
+  st: scaled("mass", 6.35029318),
+
+  // ── Energy (base: kilocalorie) ─────────────────────────────
+  kcal: scaled("energy", 1),
+  Cal: scaled("energy", 1), // Apple's large calorie == kilocalorie
+  cal: scaled("energy", 0.001), // small calorie — case is load-bearing
+  kJ: scaled("energy", 1 / 4.184),
+  J: scaled("energy", 1 / 4184),
+
+  // ── Time (base: second) ────────────────────────────────────
+  s: scaled("time", 1),
+  ms: scaled("time", 0.001),
+  min: scaled("time", 60),
+  hr: scaled("time", 3600),
+  d: scaled("time", 86_400),
+
+  // ── Pressure (base: mmHg) ──────────────────────────────────
+  mmHg: scaled("pressure", 1),
+  kPa: scaled("pressure", 7.500_616_827_041_698),
+  Pa: scaled("pressure", 0.007_500_616_827_041_698),
+
+  // ── Blood glucose (base: mg/dL) ────────────────────────────
+  // Apple annotates the molar unit with glucose's molar mass, which the
+  // normaliser strips before the lookup.
+  "mg/dL": scaled("glucose", 1),
+  "mmol/L": scaled("glucose", 18.0156), // 180.156 g/mol ÷ 10
+
+  // ── Speed (base: metres per second) ────────────────────────
+  "m/s": scaled("speed", 1),
+  "km/hr": scaled("speed", 1000 / 3600),
+  "mi/hr": scaled("speed", 1609.344 / 3600),
+
+  // ── Temperature (base: degree Celsius) — affine, not scaled ─
+  degC: {
+    family: "temperature",
+    toBase: (value) => value,
+    fromBase: (value) => value,
+  },
+  degF: {
+    family: "temperature",
+    toBase: (value) => ((value - 32) * 5) / 9,
+    fromBase: (value) => (value * 9) / 5 + 32,
+  },
+  K: {
+    family: "temperature",
+    toBase: (value) => value - 273.15,
+    fromBase: (value) => value + 273.15,
+  },
+};
+
+/**
+ * Apple writes molar units with the substance's molar mass inline —
+ * `mmol<180.156>/L` for blood glucose. The annotation is informational;
+ * strip it so the lookup sees the plain unit.
+ */
+const MOLAR_MASS_ANNOTATION = /<[^>]*>/g;
+
+function normaliseUnitString(unit: string): string {
+  return unit.trim().replace(MOLAR_MASS_ANNOTATION, "");
+}
+
+function lookup(unit: string | null | undefined): HkUnitSpec | null {
+  if (typeof unit !== "string") return null;
+  const normalised = normaliseUnitString(unit);
+  if (!normalised) return null;
+  return HK_UNITS[normalised] ?? null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `true` when this module knows a conversion factor for the unit — i.e.
+ * a `<Record>` that carries a sibling unit from the same family will be
+ * converted rather than trusted blindly. The mapping-table guard in
+ * `src/__tests__/apple-health-unit-audit-guard.test.ts` uses this to
+ * decide whether an entry's fixed `hkUnit` needs a written reason.
+ */
+export function isConvertibleHkUnit(unit: string | null | undefined): boolean {
+  return lookup(unit) !== null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert a HealthKit value between two `HKUnit` strings. Returns `null`
+ * — never a guess — when either unit is unknown or the two belong to
+ * different families; callers keep the raw value in that case.
+ */
+export function convertHkValue(
+  value: number,
+  fromUnit: string | null | undefined,
+  toUnit: string,
+): number | null {
+  if (!Number.isFinite(value)) return null;
+  const from = lookup(fromUnit);
+  if (!from) return null;
+  const to = lookup(toUnit);
+  if (!to) return null;
+  if (from.family !== to.family) return null;
+  // Same unit: return the reading untouched rather than round-tripping it
+  // through the base and picking up a float error.
+  if (normaliseUnitString(String(fromUnit)) === normaliseUnitString(toUnit)) {
+    return value;
+  }
+  return to.fromBase(from.toBase(value));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert a distance a HealthKit archive reports in its own unit into
+ * metres, the canonical DB unit. Falls back to the raw number for a unit
+ * this module cannot place (including the empty attribute an archive may
+ * write) — the pre-#944 behaviour of the workout path, preserved.
+ */
+export function hkDistanceToMetres(
+  value: number,
+  unit: string | null | undefined,
+): number {
+  return convertHkValue(value, unit, "m") ?? value;
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/measurements/import-apple-health-export.ts b/src/lib/measurements/import-apple-health-export.ts
index 26a1ce0bb..9bc4fe8cf 100644
--- a/src/lib/measurements/import-apple-health-export.ts
+++ b/src/lib/measurements/import-apple-health-export.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ import {
 } from "@/lib/measurements/drain-per-sample-cumulative";
 import { reconcileExternalMeasurement } from "@/lib/measurements/reconcile-external-measurement";
 import { resolveHkWorkoutSportType } from "@/lib/measurements/hk-workout-activity-type-map";
+import {
+  convertHkValue,
+  hkDistanceToMetres,
+} from "@/lib/measurements/hk-units";
 import { emitInsertedMeasurementArrivals } from "@/lib/arrivals/measurement-emit";
 import { maybeEnqueueMorningRefresh } from "@/lib/daily/morning-refresh-trigger";
 import { emitDataArrival } from "@/lib/arrivals/emit-shared";
@@ -851,14 +855,21 @@ export async function streamParseExportXml(
         return;
       }
 
-      const mapped = mapAppleHealthEntry({
-        hkIdentifier: hkType,
-        value: parsedValue.value,
-        unit: attrs.unit ?? mapping.hkUnit,
-        startDate: attrs.startDate,
-        endDate: attrs.endDate,
-        sleepStage: parsedValue.sleepStage,
-      });
+      const mapped = mapAppleHealthEntry(
+        {
+          hkIdentifier: hkType,
+          value: parsedValue.value,
+          unit: attrs.unit ?? mapping.hkUnit,
+          startDate: attrs.startDate,
+          endDate: attrs.endDate,
+          sleepStage: parsedValue.sleepStage,
+        },
+        // issue #944 — the archive is the one caller whose unit attribute
+        // is authoritative: Apple writes the account's own display unit on
+        // every quantity `<Record>`, so `km` here means kilometres and the
+        // reading has to be converted before it is stored.
+        { convertRecordUnit: true },
+      );
       if (!mapped) {
         unknown[`${hkType}::map_failed`] =
           (unknown[`${hkType}::map_failed`] ?? 0) + 1;
@@ -947,14 +958,13 @@ export async function streamParseExportXml(
       const totalDistance = Number.parseFloat(attrs.totalDistance ?? "");
       const totalEnergy = Number.parseFloat(attrs.totalEnergyBurned ?? "");
       const distanceUnit = attrs.totalDistanceUnit ?? "";
-      // Apple ships km for HKWorkout.totalDistance by default; metres
-      // is the canonical DB unit. Convert when the unit is km.
+      const energyUnit = attrs.totalEnergyBurnedUnit ?? "";
+      // Apple ships the ACCOUNT's own length unit on HKWorkout.totalDistance
+      // (km for a metric account, mi for an imperial one); metres is the
+      // canonical DB unit. issue #944 — the same conversion the `<Record>`
+      // path now runs, so the two can never drift apart again.
       const distanceM = Number.isFinite(totalDistance)
-        ? distanceUnit === "km"
-          ? totalDistance * 1000
-          : distanceUnit === "mi"
-            ? totalDistance * 1609.344
-            : totalDistance
+        ? hkDistanceToMetres(totalDistance, distanceUnit)
         : null;
 
       const externalId = hashSampleKey(
@@ -970,7 +980,13 @@ export async function streamParseExportXml(
         startedAt: startDate,
         endedAt: endDate,
         durationSec,
-        totalEnergyKcal: Number.isFinite(totalEnergy) ? totalEnergy : null,
+        totalEnergyKcal: Number.isFinite(totalEnergy)
+          ? // issue #944 — the energy attribute carries the account's own
+            // unit too: a Health app set to kilojoules writes `kJ` here, and
+            // the column is kilocalories. Same shared conversion; an unknown
+            // unit leaves the number alone.
+            (convertHkValue(totalEnergy, energyUnit, "kcal") ?? totalEnergy)
+          : null,
         totalDistanceM: distanceM,
         externalId,
         externalSourceVersion: attrs.sourceVersion ?? null,
diff --git a/src/lib/measurements/repair-apple-health-distance.ts b/src/lib/measurements/repair-apple-health-distance.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bd2947586
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/measurements/repair-apple-health-distance.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,394 @@
+/**
+ * Repair for walking distances the `export.zip` import stored 1000x too
+ * small (issue #944).
+ *
+ * THE DEFECT (fixed in code from this release): `mapAppleHealthEntry()`
+ * accepted the `<Record unit="…">` attribute and never read it, so a
+ * `HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning` record — which Apple
+ * writes in the account's own display unit, `km` on a metric archive —
+ * was folded into the day's total as if the number were already metres.
+ * Every day of an imported history reads as a couple of metres walked.
+ *
+ * THE CODE FIX converts the record's own unit into the table's `hkUnit`
+ * before storage, so every FUTURE import is right. This module heals what
+ * is already in the database.
+ *
+ * ── The criterion ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ *
+ * A row is a candidate only when it carries the stamp the export importer
+ * itself writes, never because its value "looks small":
+ *
+ *   type                  = WALKING_RUNNING_DISTANCE
+ *   source                = APPLE_HEALTH
+ *   aggregationProvenance = EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX
+ *   externalId LIKE         stats:HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning:%
+ *   deletedAt             IS NULL
+ *
+ * `EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX` is written in exactly one place — the archive
+ * fold in `import-apple-health-export.ts` — and the `stats:<HK>:<day>`
+ * externalId is minted by `dailyStatsExternalId()` for that same fold. A
+ * row a native iOS sync has since overwritten carries
+ * `HEALTHKIT_STATISTICS` and its value came from HealthKit's own
+ * statistics query, so it is correct and out of scope. A row whose
+ * provenance is `LEGACY_UNKNOWN` or NULL cannot be PROVEN to have come
+ * from the archive path and is therefore left alone: re-importing the
+ * archive on the fixed build repairs those, and is the authoritative
+ * repair for any account that still has its `export.zip`.
+ *
+ * ── The refusal ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ *
+ * The criterion proves an archive ORIGIN. It cannot prove the archive was
+ * imported on the broken build — an account re-imported since carries the
+ * same stamp with the right numbers, and its rest days still pass the
+ * plausibility check after another x1000. So any candidate whose repaired
+ * value would leave the range refuses the whole account: nothing is
+ * written, the rows are reported, and the operator decides. Re-importing
+ * the archive is the authoritative repair and needs no script.
+ *
+ * ── Idempotency ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ *
+ * Applying the repair writes one `AuditLog` row per account inside the
+ * same transaction as the update. An account that already carries that
+ * row is skipped, so a second run finds nothing to do — the multiplier
+ * can never be applied twice.
+ */
+import type { PrismaClient } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
+import { auditLog } from "@/lib/auth/audit";
+import { afterMeasurementMutation } from "@/lib/rollups/after-measurement-mutation";
+import { validateMeasurementRange } from "@/lib/validations/measurement";
+
+import { dailyStatsExternalId } from "./apple-health-mapping";
+import { convertHkValue } from "./hk-units";
+
+/** The audit action that marks an account's distances as repaired. */
+export const APPLE_HEALTH_DISTANCE_REPAIR_ACTION =
+  "measurement.apple_health_distance.repaired";
+
+/** Minted by the same helper the export fold uses, so the two cannot drift. */
+export const EXPORT_DISTANCE_EXTERNAL_ID_PREFIX = dailyStatsExternalId(
+  "HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning",
+  "",
+);
+
+/**
+ * The unit the affected archive was written in. Apple writes `km` on a
+ * metric account and `mi` on an imperial one, and the stored row keeps no
+ * record of which — the importer discarded the attribute, which is the
+ * defect. The operator names it; `km` is the default because it is what
+ * the Health app writes for every metric locale.
+ */
+export type ArchiveDistanceUnit = "km" | "mi";
+
+export interface RepairCandidateRow {
+  id: string;
+  measuredAt: Date;
+  value: number;
+}
+
+export interface AccountRepairPlan {
+  userId: string;
+  /** Candidate rows that would be multiplied. */
+  repairable: RepairCandidateRow[];
+  /**
+   * Candidates whose repaired value would leave the plausibility range
+   * (`validateMeasurementRange`). One row here refuses the whole account:
+   * it is evidence the rows are NOT the 1000x class.
+   */
+  outOfRange: RepairCandidateRow[];
+  /** Non-null when this account already carries the repair's audit row. */
+  alreadyRepairedAt: Date | null;
+  /**
+   * True when a previous run wrote the rows but its rollup tail did not
+   * finish — the audit row still says `rollupsRefreshed: false`, so the
+   * DAY/WEEK/MONTH/YEAR buckets and the cached status insights still hold
+   * the pre-repair numbers. Meaningless unless `alreadyRepairedAt` is set.
+   */
+  rollupsPending: boolean;
+  /** Candidate rows found, whatever the disposition above. */
+  candidateCount: number;
+}
+
+/** The DB surface this module needs — the script hands it the real client. */
+export type RepairClient = Pick<
+  PrismaClient,
+  "measurement" | "auditLog" | "$transaction"
+>;
+
+const REPAIRED_TYPE = "WALKING_RUNNING_DISTANCE" as const;
+
+/** metres per unit of the archive's own length unit. */
+export function repairFactorFor(unit: ArchiveDistanceUnit): number {
+  const factor = convertHkValue(1, unit, "m");
+  // The two archive units are length units by construction; the shared
+  // table is the single source of the factor either way.
+  if (factor === null) throw new Error(`no metre factor for unit "${unit}"`);
+  return factor;
+}
+
+/**
+ * List the repair candidates per account. Read-only — this is what the
+ * script's dry run prints.
+ */
+export async function planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(
+  client: RepairClient,
+  options: { archiveUnit: ArchiveDistanceUnit },
+): Promise<AccountRepairPlan[]> {
+  const factor = repairFactorFor(options.archiveUnit);
+
+  const rows = await client.measurement.findMany({
+    where: {
+      type: REPAIRED_TYPE,
+      source: "APPLE_HEALTH",
+      aggregationProvenance: "EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX",
+      externalId: { startsWith: EXPORT_DISTANCE_EXTERNAL_ID_PREFIX },
+      deletedAt: null,
+    },
+    select: { id: true, userId: true, value: true, measuredAt: true },
+    orderBy: [{ userId: "asc" }, { measuredAt: "asc" }],
+  });
+  if (rows.length === 0) return [];
+
+  const userIds = Array.from(new Set(rows.map((row) => row.userId)));
+  const repaired = await client.auditLog.findMany({
+    where: {
+      action: APPLE_HEALTH_DISTANCE_REPAIR_ACTION,
+      userId: { in: userIds },
+    },
+    select: { userId: true, createdAt: true, details: true },
+    orderBy: { createdAt: "asc" },
+  });
+  const repairedAt = new Map<string, Date>();
+  const rollupsPending = new Set<string>();
+  for (const entry of repaired) {
+    if (!entry.userId) continue;
+    repairedAt.set(entry.userId, entry.createdAt);
+    if (!rollupsRefreshedIn(entry.details)) rollupsPending.add(entry.userId);
+  }
+
+  const plans = new Map<string, AccountRepairPlan>();
+  for (const row of rows) {
+    let plan = plans.get(row.userId);
+    if (!plan) {
+      plan = {
+        userId: row.userId,
+        repairable: [],
+        outOfRange: [],
+        alreadyRepairedAt: repairedAt.get(row.userId) ?? null,
+        rollupsPending: rollupsPending.has(row.userId),
+        candidateCount: 0,
+      };
+      plans.set(row.userId, plan);
+    }
+    plan.candidateCount += 1;
+    if (plan.alreadyRepairedAt) continue;
+    const candidate: RepairCandidateRow = {
+      id: row.id,
+      measuredAt: row.measuredAt,
+      value: row.value,
+    };
+    if (validateMeasurementRange(REPAIRED_TYPE, row.value * factor) !== null) {
+      plan.outOfRange.push(candidate);
+    } else {
+      plan.repairable.push(candidate);
+    }
+  }
+  return Array.from(plans.values());
+}
+
+/**
+ * The command that heals the rollup tail when it did not run.
+ *
+ * Named here rather than in the script so the message an operator reads is
+ * the same one the module can be asked for.
+ */
+export function rollupRepairCommand(userId: string): string {
+  return `pnpm dlx tsx scripts/backfill-rollups.ts --user ${userId}`;
+}
+
+/** Did a repair audit row record a finished rollup tail? */
+function rollupsRefreshedIn(details: string | null): boolean {
+  if (!details) return false;
+  try {
+    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(details);
+    return (
+      typeof parsed === "object" &&
+      parsed !== null &&
+      (parsed as { rollupsRefreshed?: unknown }).rollupsRefreshed === true
+    );
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+export interface RepairOutcome {
+  userId: string;
+  updated: number;
+  skipped: number;
+  /**
+   * Why the account was left alone, when it was. Null on a run that wrote.
+   * The script prints it verbatim.
+   */
+  refusedReason: string | null;
+  /** The out-of-range candidates — what a refusal was decided on. */
+  skippedRows: RepairCandidateRow[];
+  /**
+   * True when the rows were written but the rollup tail was not. The audit
+   * row still reads `rollupsRefreshed: false`, so a later run can tell this
+   * apart from a finished repair; the caller must surface
+   * `rollupRepairCommand(userId)` and exit non-zero.
+   */
+  rollupsPending: boolean;
+  /** What the rollup tail threw, when it threw. */
+  rollupError: unknown;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The refusal an out-of-range candidate earns.
+ *
+ * The provenance criterion proves an archive origin; it cannot prove the
+ * archive was imported on the BROKEN build. An account that has since been
+ * re-imported on the fixed build carries the same stamp with the right
+ * numbers, and its rest days — under 200 m, phone left at home — pass the
+ * plausibility check after another x1000 and would be written. So a single
+ * row that would leave the range is treated as what it is: evidence the
+ * account is not the 1000x class. The whole account stops.
+ */
+function outOfRangeRefusal(plan: AccountRepairPlan, factor: number): string {
+  return (
+    `${plan.outOfRange.length} of ${plan.candidateCount} candidate row(s) ` +
+    `leave the plausible range after x${factor}, so these rows are not the ` +
+    "1000x class — the account was most likely re-imported on the fixed " +
+    "build, or its archive was never in the affected unit. Nothing written. " +
+    "Check the dry run's worked examples against the account's Health app " +
+    "before forcing anything."
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Apply one account's plan: every repairable row multiplied by the
+ * archive unit's metre factor in ONE transaction, together with the audit
+ * row that makes a second run a no-op. Returns what it did.
+ */
+export async function applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair(
+  client: RepairClient,
+  plan: AccountRepairPlan,
+  options: { archiveUnit: ArchiveDistanceUnit },
+): Promise<RepairOutcome> {
+  const factor = repairFactorFor(options.archiveUnit);
+  const skipped = plan.outOfRange.length;
+  const base = {
+    userId: plan.userId,
+    updated: 0,
+    skipped,
+    skippedRows: plan.outOfRange,
+    rollupsPending: false,
+    rollupError: null,
+  };
+  if (plan.alreadyRepairedAt) {
+    return {
+      ...base,
+      refusedReason: `already repaired on ${plan.alreadyRepairedAt.toISOString()}`,
+    };
+  }
+  // Refuse the ACCOUNT, not just the row: see `outOfRangeRefusal`.
+  if (plan.outOfRange.length > 0) {
+    return { ...base, refusedReason: outOfRangeRefusal(plan, factor) };
+  }
+  if (plan.repairable.length === 0) {
+    return { ...base, refusedReason: "no repairable rows" };
+  }
+
+  const ids = plan.repairable.map((row) => row.id);
+  const details = {
+    type: REPAIRED_TYPE,
+    archiveUnit: options.archiveUnit,
+    factor,
+    rows: ids.length,
+    skippedOutOfRange: skipped,
+    issue: 944,
+    // Flipped to true only once the rollup tail below has finished. A row
+    // left at false says "rows repaired, rollups still pre-repair", which is
+    // what a re-run has to be able to see: the account is skipped from here
+    // on, so nothing else would ever notice.
+    rollupsRefreshed: false,
+  };
+  const auditId = await client.$transaction(async (tx): Promise<string> => {
+    // One statement per chunk rather than one per row: an account with a
+    // decade of history carries thousands of rows and an interactive
+    // transaction has a clock on it. `sync_version` + `updated_at` are
+    // bumped by hand because raw SQL bypasses Prisma's `@updatedAt`, and
+    // the iOS delta feed pages on exactly those two columns.
+    for (let i = 0; i < ids.length; i += 500) {
+      const chunk = ids.slice(i, i + 500);
+      await tx.$executeRaw`
+        UPDATE measurements
+           SET value = value * ${factor},
+               unit = 'm',
+               sync_version = sync_version + 1,
+               updated_at = NOW()
+         WHERE id = ANY(${chunk})`;
+    }
+    await auditLog(APPLE_HEALTH_DISTANCE_REPAIR_ACTION, {
+      client: tx,
+      userId: plan.userId,
+      actorUserId: null,
+      details,
+    });
+    // Read the row back rather than widening `auditLog`'s return type for
+    // ~600 call sites. Inside the same transaction, and an account can hold
+    // at most one of these rows — the second run is refused above — so the
+    // lookup is exact, not a guess at the newest.
+    const entry = await tx.auditLog.findFirstOrThrow({
+      where: {
+        action: APPLE_HEALTH_DISTANCE_REPAIR_ACTION,
+        userId: plan.userId,
+      },
+      select: { id: true },
+    });
+    return entry.id;
+  });
+
+  // The tail: the DAY/WEEK/MONTH/YEAR rollups and the cached status insights
+  // hold the pre-repair numbers until they are recomputed. It runs outside
+  // the transaction, so a throw here leaves the rows repaired and the derived
+  // tier stale — and the account is skipped from the next run on. Hence the
+  // flag: it is flipped only after the tail returned, and the caller is told
+  // to run the backfill and to exit non-zero.
+  let rollupsPending = false;
+  let rollupError: unknown = null;
+  try {
+    await afterMeasurementMutation(
+      plan.userId,
+      plan.repairable.map((row) => ({
+        type: REPAIRED_TYPE,
+        measuredAt: row.measuredAt,
+      })),
+      "repair-apple-health-distance",
+    );
+    await client.auditLog.update({
+      where: { id: auditId },
+      data: { details: JSON.stringify({ ...details, rollupsRefreshed: true }) },
+    });
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Either leg failing leaves the flag at false, which is the safe
+    // direction: an operator re-running the backfill needlessly costs time,
+    // one who never learns it is due keeps wrong numbers on every chart.
+    rollupsPending = true;
+    rollupError = err;
+  }
+
+  return {
+    userId: plan.userId,
+    updated: ids.length,
+    skipped,
+    refusedReason: null,
+    skippedRows: plan.outOfRange,
+    rollupsPending,
+    rollupError,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Narrowing helper for the script's `--unit` flag. */
+export function parseArchiveUnit(raw: string): ArchiveDistanceUnit | null {
+  return raw === "km" || raw === "mi" ? raw : null;
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/openapi/routes/measurements.ts b/src/lib/openapi/routes/measurements.ts
index ff655f406..1f28b049b 100644
--- a/src/lib/openapi/routes/measurements.ts
+++ b/src/lib/openapi/routes/measurements.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,13 @@ const batchEntrySchema = z
       .describe(
         "v1.19.2 (iOS #34 extension) — the bucket's MAXIMUM bpm for a 10-minute heart-rate bucket (see `externalId`). Persisted ONLY on a well-formed `stats:HKQuantityTypeIdentifierHeartRate:<bucket-start>` row; ignored (stored null) on every other entry. Omit on a pre-v1.19.2 client — the bucket keeps the avg-only contract.",
       ),
-    unit: z.string().min(1).max(60),
+    unit: z
+      .string()
+      .min(1)
+      .max(60)
+      .describe(
+        "Apple's `HKUnit` string for `value`, captured for audit. The server does NOT convert from it: `value` is read in the unit HealthLog stores the identifier in (`m` for walking distance, `kg` for body mass, `kcal` for energy, `degC` for temperature). Send the sample in that unit.",
+      ),
     startDate: z.iso.datetime({ offset: true }),
     endDate: z.iso.datetime({ offset: true }),
     sleepStage: z
diff --git a/tests/integration/apple-health-distance-repair.test.ts b/tests/integration/apple-health-distance-repair.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..11d40f1eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/apple-health-distance-repair.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,317 @@
+/**
+ * Integration coverage for the export-import walking-distance repair
+ * (issue #944).
+ *
+ * The defect stored every archive-imported `WALKING_RUNNING_DISTANCE` row a
+ * thousand times too small. `src/lib/measurements/repair-apple-health-distance.ts`
+ * heals what is already in the database, and everything that matters about it
+ * is a database property: which rows the criterion actually selects, that the
+ * multiply lands in one transaction with its audit row, and that a second run
+ * finds nothing. None of that can be proven against a mock, so this runs
+ * against the testcontainer Postgres (Docker / OrbStack; `pnpm test:integration`).
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { getPrismaClient, truncateAllTables } from "./setup";
+import {
+  APPLE_HEALTH_DISTANCE_REPAIR_ACTION,
+  applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair,
+  planAppleHealthDistanceRepair,
+} from "@/lib/measurements/repair-apple-health-distance";
+import { settleBackgroundTasks } from "@/lib/logging/background-tasks";
+import type {
+  MeasurementAggregationProvenance,
+  MeasurementSource,
+  MeasurementType,
+  PrismaClient,
+} from "@/generated/prisma/client";
+
+const DISTANCE_PREFIX = "stats:HKQuantityTypeIdentifierDistanceWalkingRunning:";
+
+let dayCounter = 0;
+
+async function seedRow(
+  prisma: PrismaClient,
+  userId: string,
+  overrides: {
+    value: number;
+    type?: MeasurementType;
+    source?: MeasurementSource;
+    provenance?: MeasurementAggregationProvenance | null;
+    externalId?: string;
+  },
+): Promise<string> {
+  dayCounter += 1;
+  const measuredAt = new Date(Date.UTC(2026, 0, dayCounter, 12, 0, 0));
+  const day = measuredAt.toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+  const row = await prisma.measurement.create({
+    data: {
+      userId,
+      type: overrides.type ?? "WALKING_RUNNING_DISTANCE",
+      value: overrides.value,
+      unit: "m",
+      source: overrides.source ?? "APPLE_HEALTH",
+      measuredAt,
+      externalId: overrides.externalId ?? `${DISTANCE_PREFIX}${day}`,
+      aggregationProvenance:
+        overrides.provenance === undefined
+          ? "EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX"
+          : overrides.provenance,
+    },
+    select: { id: true },
+  });
+  return row.id;
+}
+
+async function readRow(prisma: PrismaClient, id: string) {
+  return prisma.measurement.findUniqueOrThrow({
+    where: { id },
+    select: { value: true, unit: true, syncVersion: true },
+  });
+}
+
+async function makeUser(prisma: PrismaClient, tag: string): Promise<string> {
+  const user = await prisma.user.create({
+    data: {
+      username: `distance-repair-${tag}`,
+      email: `distance-repair-${tag}@example.test`,
+      role: "USER",
+    },
+  });
+  return user.id;
+}
+
+describe("Apple Health export distance repair — integration", () => {
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    await truncateAllTables(getPrismaClient());
+    dayCounter = 0;
+  });
+
+  it("selects only rows the archive importer stamped, and repairs them once", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const userId = await makeUser(prisma, "km");
+
+    const kmDay = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 2.484 });
+    const otherDay = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 7.02 });
+    // Decoys, one per arm of the criterion.
+    const nativeStats = await seedRow(prisma, userId, {
+      value: 8123,
+      provenance: "HEALTHKIT_STATISTICS",
+    });
+    const legacyProvenance = await seedRow(prisma, userId, {
+      value: 3.4,
+      provenance: null,
+    });
+    const manualRow = await seedRow(prisma, userId, {
+      value: 4.1,
+      source: "MANUAL",
+    });
+    const otherType = await seedRow(prisma, userId, {
+      value: 9000,
+      type: "ACTIVITY_STEPS",
+      externalId: "stats:HKQuantityTypeIdentifierStepCount:2026-01-09",
+    });
+    const perSample = await seedRow(prisma, userId, {
+      value: 1.2,
+      externalId: "sample:abc123",
+    });
+
+    const plans = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    expect(plans).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(plans[0].userId).toBe(userId);
+    expect(plans[0].repairable.map((row) => row.id).sort()).toEqual(
+      [kmDay, otherDay].sort(),
+    );
+    expect(plans[0].alreadyRepairedAt).toBeNull();
+
+    const outcome = await applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, plans[0], {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    await settleBackgroundTasks();
+    expect(outcome).toMatchObject({ userId, updated: 2, skipped: 0 });
+
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, kmDay)).value).toBeCloseTo(2484, 6);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, otherDay)).value).toBeCloseTo(7020, 6);
+    // The delta feed pages on sync_version / updated_at, so a repaired row
+    // has to look mutated to a paired client.
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, kmDay)).syncVersion).toBe(2);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, kmDay)).unit).toBe("m");
+
+    // Every decoy untouched.
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, nativeStats)).value).toBe(8123);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, legacyProvenance)).value).toBe(3.4);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, manualRow)).value).toBe(4.1);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, otherType)).value).toBe(9000);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, perSample)).value).toBe(1.2);
+
+    const audit = await prisma.auditLog.findMany({
+      where: { action: APPLE_HEALTH_DISTANCE_REPAIR_ACTION, userId },
+    });
+    expect(audit).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(JSON.parse(audit[0].details ?? "{}")).toMatchObject({
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+      factor: 1000,
+      rows: 2,
+      issue: 944,
+      // Flipped only after the rollup tail returned. A run that repaired the
+      // rows and lost the tail leaves this false, and the account is skipped
+      // from here on — so it is the only place the gap can still be seen.
+      rollupsRefreshed: true,
+    });
+    expect(outcome.rollupsPending).toBe(false);
+
+    const second = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    expect(second[0].rollupsPending).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("is idempotent — a second run finds nothing to repair", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const userId = await makeUser(prisma, "twice");
+    const rowId = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 2.484 });
+
+    const first = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    await applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, first[0], {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    await settleBackgroundTasks();
+
+    const second = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    expect(second).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(second[0].repairable).toHaveLength(0);
+    expect(second[0].candidateCount).toBe(1);
+    expect(second[0].alreadyRepairedAt).toBeInstanceOf(Date);
+
+    const outcome = await applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, second[0], {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    expect(outcome.updated).toBe(0);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, rowId)).value).toBeCloseTo(2484, 6);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, rowId)).syncVersion).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  it("uses the archive's own unit", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const userId = await makeUser(prisma, "mi");
+    const mile = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 1.543 });
+
+    const plans = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, {
+      archiveUnit: "mi",
+    });
+    expect(plans[0].repairable.map((row) => row.id)).toEqual([mile]);
+
+    const outcome = await applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, plans[0], {
+      archiveUnit: "mi",
+    });
+    await settleBackgroundTasks();
+    expect(outcome).toMatchObject({ updated: 1, skipped: 0 });
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, mile)).value).toBeCloseTo(2483.217792, 6);
+  });
+
+  it("refuses the whole account when one row would leave the range", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const userId = await makeUser(prisma, "mixed");
+    const plausible = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 1.543 });
+    const absurd = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 250 });
+
+    const plans = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, {
+      archiveUnit: "mi",
+    });
+    expect(plans[0].repairable.map((row) => row.id)).toEqual([plausible]);
+    expect(plans[0].outOfRange.map((row) => row.id)).toEqual([absurd]);
+
+    const outcome = await applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, plans[0], {
+      archiveUnit: "mi",
+    });
+    await settleBackgroundTasks();
+    expect(outcome.updated).toBe(0);
+    expect(outcome.skipped).toBe(1);
+    expect(outcome.skippedRows.map((row) => row.id)).toEqual([absurd]);
+    expect(outcome.refusedReason).toMatch(/leave the plausible range/);
+
+    // Nothing written at all — not the "repairable" row, not the audit row
+    // that would make a later, correct run a no-op.
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, plausible)).value).toBe(1.543);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, plausible)).syncVersion).toBe(1);
+    expect((await readRow(prisma, absurd)).value).toBe(250);
+    expect(
+      await prisma.auditLog.count({
+        where: { action: APPLE_HEALTH_DISTANCE_REPAIR_ACTION, userId },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves an account re-imported on the fixed build untouched", async () => {
+    // The scenario the criterion cannot see: the operator re-imported
+    // `export.zip` on the fixed build, so the rows are already right. They
+    // still carry `EXPORT_XML_SOURCE_MAX` + the `stats:` external id and
+    // still have no audit row, so they are selected exactly like a broken
+    // account's rows. The rest day survives another x1000; the ordinary days
+    // do not, and that is what has to stop the account.
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const userId = await makeUser(prisma, "reimported");
+    const ordinary = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 2484 });
+    const longWalk = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 7020 });
+    const restDay = await seedRow(prisma, userId, { value: 150 });
+
+    const plans = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    expect(plans).toHaveLength(1);
+    // The rest day would pass the plausibility check on its own.
+    expect(plans[0].repairable.map((row) => row.id)).toEqual([restDay]);
+    expect(plans[0].outOfRange.map((row) => row.id).sort()).toEqual(
+      [ordinary, longWalk].sort(),
+    );
+
+    const outcome = await applyAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, plans[0], {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    await settleBackgroundTasks();
+    expect(outcome.updated).toBe(0);
+    expect(outcome.refusedReason).not.toBeNull();
+
+    for (const [id, value] of [
+      [ordinary, 2484],
+      [longWalk, 7020],
+      [restDay, 150],
+    ] as const) {
+      const row = await readRow(prisma, id);
+      expect(row.value).toBe(value);
+      expect(row.syncVersion).toBe(1);
+    }
+    expect(
+      await prisma.auditLog.count({
+        where: { action: APPLE_HEALTH_DISTANCE_REPAIR_ACTION, userId },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("plans one entry per account", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const first = await makeUser(prisma, "a");
+    const second = await makeUser(prisma, "b");
+    await seedRow(prisma, first, { value: 1.5 });
+    await seedRow(prisma, second, { value: 2.5 });
+    await seedRow(prisma, second, { value: 3.5 });
+
+    const plans = await planAppleHealthDistanceRepair(prisma, {
+      archiveUnit: "km",
+    });
+    expect(
+      plans.map((plan) => [plan.userId, plan.repairable.length]).sort(),
+    ).toEqual(
+      [
+        [first, 1],
+        [second, 2],
+      ].sort(),
+    );
+  });
+});