diff --git a/src/app/api/integrations/healthkit/__tests__/route.test.ts b/src/app/api/integrations/healthkit/__tests__/route.test.ts
index fd6b34138..f029d6a7f 100644
--- a/src/app/api/integrations/healthkit/__tests__/route.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/integrations/healthkit/__tests__/route.test.ts
@@ -287,6 +287,40 @@ describe("GET /api/integrations/healthkit — sync health", () => {
     expect((await read()).syncHealth.verdict).toBe("pending_first_sync");
   });
 
+  // The column only moves on a live batch. Rows that reached the account any
+  // other way (the export.zip import, a batch before the column existed) left
+  // it null, and the card said "waiting for first data" beside a four-digit
+  // record count. Arrival is a data question: any Apple Health row settles it.
+  it("is not pending when the per-type ledger records an arrival", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(prisma.user.findUnique).mockResolvedValue({
+      healthKitConfigJson: null,
+      healthKitLastSyncedAt: null,
+    } as never);
+    vi.mocked(prisma.healthKitTypeSync.findMany).mockResolvedValue([
+      {
+        type: "PULSE",
+        lastReceivedAt: ago(2 * DAY),
+        lastTrigger: null,
+        lastNewSampleAt: null,
+      },
+    ] as never);
+    expect((await read()).syncHealth.verdict).toBe("fresh");
+  });
+
+  it("is not pending when Apple Health rows exist without any sync stamp", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(prisma.user.findUnique).mockResolvedValue({
+      healthKitConfigJson: null,
+      healthKitLastSyncedAt: null,
+    } as never);
+    vi.mocked(listLiveMeasurementTypes).mockResolvedValue(["PULSE"]);
+    vi.mocked(prisma.$queryRaw).mockResolvedValue([
+      { type: "PULSE", last_seen: ago(DAY) },
+    ] as never);
+    const body = await read();
+    expect(body.syncHealth.verdict).toBe("fresh");
+    expect(body.metricFreshness.map((e) => e.stale)).toEqual([false]);
+  });
+
   it("flags one quiet metric inside an otherwise healthy connection", async () => {
     vi.mocked(prisma.user.findUnique).mockResolvedValue({
       healthKitConfigJson: null,
diff --git a/src/app/api/integrations/healthkit/route.ts b/src/app/api/integrations/healthkit/route.ts
index e104168ca..886e489ea 100644
--- a/src/app/api/integrations/healthkit/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/integrations/healthkit/route.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { auditLog } from "@/lib/auth/audit";
 import { getAppleHealthSyncProgress } from "@/lib/integrations/apple-health-progress";
 import {
   getHealthKitTypeArrivals,
+  newestAppleHealthDataAt,
   withHealthKitArrivals,
 } from "@/lib/integrations/healthkit-type-sync";
 import { getSourceFreshness } from "@/lib/integrations/metric-freshness";
@@ -162,21 +163,9 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
   // three-week-dead pipe rendered the same green as one that delivered an hour
   // ago. Fail-soft on the per-metric read — an honesty signal is never worth
   // 500-ing the config the iOS client needs.
-  // No `connected` hint: Apple Health has nothing to connect or disconnect, so
-  // "never delivered" resolves to `pending_first_sync`, not `disconnected`.
-  const syncHealth = resolveSyncVerdict({
-    configured: true,
-    lastDataAt: lastSyncedAt,
-    legacyLastSyncedAt: lastSyncedAt,
-    cadence: PUSH_CADENCE,
-  });
   // #1173 — when each type last ARRIVED and under which trigger, beside when
   // its newest sample was taken. Fail-soft to null, which leaves the entries
   // without arrival fields rather than reporting every type as never received.
-  const [samples, arrivals] = await Promise.all([
-    getSourceFreshness(user.id, "APPLE_HEALTH").catch(() => []),
-    getHealthKitTypeArrivals(user.id).catch(() => null),
-  ]);
   // Issue #778 — a first-run backfill used to be invisible from the web: the
   // card said "last sync 2 minutes ago" while giving no sense of how much had
   // arrived or how far back it reached. These two figures (row count + oldest
@@ -184,9 +173,23 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
   // progress; the phone's queue and throttle state stay on the phone and are
   // not guessed at. Fail-soft for the same reason the freshness read is —
   // a progress line is never worth 500-ing the config the iOS client needs.
-  const syncProgress = await getAppleHealthSyncProgress(user.id).catch(
-    () => null,
-  );
+  const [samples, arrivals, syncProgress] = await Promise.all([
+    getSourceFreshness(user.id, "APPLE_HEALTH").catch(() => []),
+    getHealthKitTypeArrivals(user.id).catch(() => null),
+    getAppleHealthSyncProgress(user.id).catch(() => null),
+  ]);
+  // No `connected` hint: Apple Health has nothing to connect or disconnect, so
+  // "never delivered" resolves to `pending_first_sync`, not `disconnected`.
+  // "Delivered" is read off the data, not only off the user column: that
+  // column moves on a live batch alone, so rows from the export.zip import
+  // left it null and the card said "waiting for first data" beside a
+  // four-digit record count.
+  const syncHealth = resolveSyncVerdict({
+    configured: true,
+    lastDataAt: newestAppleHealthDataAt(lastSyncedAt, arrivals, samples),
+    legacyLastSyncedAt: lastSyncedAt,
+    cadence: PUSH_CADENCE,
+  });
 
   return apiSuccess({
     entries,
diff --git a/src/lib/integrations/healthkit-type-sync.ts b/src/lib/integrations/healthkit-type-sync.ts
index 1945b8131..20570d0b0 100644
--- a/src/lib/integrations/healthkit-type-sync.ts
+++ b/src/lib/integrations/healthkit-type-sync.ts
@@ -131,6 +131,32 @@ export async function getHealthKitTypeArrivals(
   return out;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The newest instant Apple Health data is known to have reached the account:
+ * the live-batch stamp, the per-type arrival ledger, or — for rows that came
+ * any other way, such as the export.zip import — the newest stored sample.
+ * Null only when none of the three holds anything, which is the one case the
+ * status may honestly call "waiting for first data".
+ */
+export function newestAppleHealthDataAt(
+  lastSyncedAt: string | null,
+  arrivals: Map<string, HealthKitTypeArrivalRecord> | null,
+  samples: readonly { lastSeenAt: string }[],
+): string | null {
+  let newest: number | null = null;
+  const consider = (value: string | null | undefined) => {
+    if (!value) return;
+    const ms = Date.parse(value);
+    if (Number.isFinite(ms) && (newest === null || ms > newest)) newest = ms;
+  };
+  consider(lastSyncedAt);
+  for (const arrival of arrivals?.values() ?? []) {
+    consider(arrival.lastReceivedAt);
+  }
+  for (const sample of samples) consider(sample.lastSeenAt);
+  return newest === null ? null : new Date(newest).toISOString();
+}
+
 /** A freshness entry with the arrival facts beside the newest sample. */
 export interface HealthKitFreshnessEntry extends MetricFreshnessEntry {
   /** When a live sync last carried this type; null when none has. */