No chest strap, no extra wearable — just the AirPods Pro 3 you're already wearing for class audio. Strive Score and the HR-zone bar work the same as with the Heart Rate Band.
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Peloton
Every current Peloton — Bike, Bike+, Tread, Tread+, Row — pairs with standard Bluetooth heart-rate monitors. AirHRM shows up as one, using the signal already inside Apple Health from your AirPods Pro. Setup takes about a minute.
If you wear AirPods Pro 3 for class audio, you already have accurate heart rate in your ears — Apple's first in-ear sensor. The catch: Apple deliberately stripped the standard Bluetooth heart-rate broadcast from the buds, so the Peloton touchscreen can't see them the way it sees a chest strap or PowerBeats Pro 2.
The AirPods Pro 3 are NOT sending out a standard Bluetooth heart rate signal. This is important for areas like a Peloton Bike, which can pair with the heart rate of the PowerBeats Pro 2, but not the AirPods Pro 3.
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Peloton's own iOS app gets your heart rate through HealthKit, but only on the phone — not on the Bike+ tablet, not on the leaderboard's HR-zone bar, not into Strive Score on hardware. The status-quo answer has been: buy the Peloton Heart Rate Band, swap to a chest strap, or wear an Apple Watch.
AirHRM reads heart rate from your AirPods Pro through Apple Health and rebroadcasts it over Bluetooth as a standard heart-rate sensor. Your Peloton touchscreen sees a device named AirHRM and pairs with it — exactly like a chest belt. No new hardware, no extra account, no analytics layer between you and the data.
Why the AirPods Pro
Wrist sensors take a hit whenever your forearm contracts — gripping the handlebars on a hard climb, holding dumbbells in Bootcamp, white-knuckling the Row handle on a 500m piece. Optical readers can mistake muscle tension for blood flow. AirPods sit in your ear canal, unaffected by what your hands are doing.
Glance-able
Once a session is running, your live heart rate also shows on the iPhone's Lock Screen. On iPhone 14 Pro or later, it also appears in the Dynamic Island.
Setup
Open AirHRM, insert your AirPods Pro (already connected to the iPhone), and tap Start. The HealthKit session begins and your iPhone starts broadcasting heart rate over Bluetooth.
On the Peloton touchscreen, tap the time in the top right corner, then select Heart Rate Monitor. The Set Up Heart Rate Monitor screen opens.
Find AirHRM in the list and tap Connect next to it. If AirHRM isn't on the list, tap the refresh button in the top right of the screen. If Peloton asks to pair with your iPhone, tap Cancel — AirHRM connects without pairing.
Join any class. Your heart rate appears in the top left corner of your touchscreen, and the HR-zone color bar shows up on the Here Now leaderboard.
Train. Lock or pocket the iPhone — AirHRM keeps broadcasting in the background until you tap Stop. Strive Score, zone classes, and post-class metrics all work the same way they do with the Heart Rate Band.
Bike+ owners: ignore the GymKit tap-to-pair prompt near the bike's camera — that flow is for Apple Watch. Use the standard flow above.
Peloton App on iPad / Fire TV: start any class, tap the heart-rate-monitor icon on the play screen, then tap AirHRM in the list. Same flow, different screen.
Bike, Bike+, Tread, Tread+, and Row all use the same Heart Rate Monitor pairing flow — the setup, the menu, and the connection are identical across every current Peloton. The Peloton App on iPad or Fire TV pairs the same way.
Yes — Bike, Bike+, Tread, Tread+, Row, and the Peloton App on iPad or Fire TV all pair with AirHRM the same way they pair with a Heart Rate Band or chest strap.
AirHRM broadcasts heart rate out of your iPhone over Bluetooth, so a separate device has to receive it. Another app on the same iPhone can't pick up the broadcast — use the Peloton App on iPad or Fire TV instead, or use your Peloton's touchscreen.
AirPods Pro 3 heart rate has been independently reviewed as very accurate — close to a chest belt across steady-state and zone work, with the usual optical-sensor lag during sharp spikes. Ear-canal placement also sidesteps the wrist-motion problem that breaks watches in Bootcamp and on the Row.
Apple has managed to do something that really nobody else has: produce a pretty solid heart-rate sensing device in your ears. It's not absolutely perfect, but it's really strong.
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It's not flawless, though. Honest caveats:
For the daily rides, the Tread runs, the Row warm-ups, and the Bootcamp and Strength classes where Strive Score is the whole point — AirPods are honest training data.
Accurate heart rate from the AirPods you're already wearing, on the Peloton you already use. Start the 7-day trial — cancel before it ends and you won't be charged.
after your trial ends
Less than a 3-pack of batteries.
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Yes. Peloton calculates Strive Score from any connected Bluetooth heart-rate monitor — Heart Rate Band, chest strap, AirHRM, all the same. As soon as AirHRM is paired, Strive Score shows up in the corner and the HR-zone color bar appears on the leaderboard.
Yes. The zone color bar (red / orange / yellow / green / blue) is driven entirely by the connected HR source. With AirHRM paired, your bar fills in like anyone else's on Here Now and All Time.
It needs to stay running, but it can be locked. AirHRM broadcasts in the background once the touchscreen has connected. Park the phone in the Bike's tablet tray, the Tread's media tray, or anywhere in Bluetooth range — locked screen, no problem.
Probably not. Peloton's One-Tap companion app on Apple Watch works across Bike, Bike+, Tread, Tread+, and Row. AirHRM is for AirPods-only users who don't want to wear a watch or a strap.
Yes. The in-studio touchscreens accept standard Bluetooth HR monitors the same way the at-home ones do. Use the time-tap flow above.
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No. Only AirPods Pro 3 currently have an in-ear heart-rate sensor — earlier AirPods (including Pro 2) can't measure heart rate at all, so AirHRM has no signal to rebroadcast. If Apple adds heart-rate sensing to later AirPods, AirHRM will pick them up automatically through Apple Health.
