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How to speed up HKStatisticsCollectionQuery in iOS 9.3?

It seems HKStatisticsCollectionQuery is incredibly slow in iOS 9.3. It can take upwards of 40 seconds to return hourly statistics for a year for active calories where it took 1 or less before.

let predicate = HKQuery.predicateForSamplesWithStartDate(anchorDate, endDate: endDate, options: [])
    let query = HKStatisticsCollectionQuery(quantityType: quantityType,
        quantitySamplePredicate: predicate,
        options: statisticOptions,
        anchorDate: anchorDate,
        intervalComponents: interval)
Solution

  • After many hours of trial and error I have found that HKStatisticsCollectionQuery is not thread friendly. In order to solve the problem I used this async NSOperation: https://gist.github.com/calebd/93fa347397cec5f88233

    And of course an NSOperationQueue in order to force the HKStatisticsCollectionQuerys to be performed synchronously. Once I did that each query took less than half a second.