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I've linked Strava in Huawei health app, but I can not add my device in Strava app, "There was an error connecting your device".I can not understand what is the problem...and how to fix it

I record my activities through the Strava App on my Pixel Watch 2 directly.I have recently started pausing my activity during breaks and twice in the last 2 weeks I ended up accidentally pressing the "finish" button instead of "resume" after pausing because they are too close to each other. I think at the very least, a confirmation before finishing the activity feels like a better experience. Or make the resume button more significant than the big finish button would also be helpful in avoiding such accidental button presses.Moreover, the resume button also looks like a text rather than an actual button. 

Can we PLEASE somehow separate the “Save” and “Discard” button on Apple Watch? Too many times, I’ve accidentally discarded an activity when trying to save. Having the buttons the same size and right on top of each other is not helpful. 99% of the time, we just want to save. Discard should not even be an option! We can delete unwanted activities manually in the app, if needed. 

Saw the recent note about streamlining segments by only keeping the most popular ones, detecting and removing fake attempts, etc. That's great. That said, I would say that one reason why some people make duplicates is an attempt to make a better spatial representation of the route so that anyone taking shortcuts will not have their attempt registered. In making this update to segments, I highly recommend strava update the GPS match precision required for a segment to register.As an example, take the Black Widow trail in San Diego, CA, black mountain area. The trail starts with a few switchbacks but there is also a steep hiking trail straight up the middle. Some bombers with their DH bikes send it straight down this trail, but their rides are registered into the segment with all the switchbacks. As a result all of the top attempts for the Black Widow trail are from DHers skipping all the switchbacks because the GPS registration is too forgiving. I am hoping a change could reme

Often when planning a weekend long run, I'd start by planning a route, then star a few segments along the route. But now it does not longer seems to be a way to see what segments exist along the route. On the route planning map, I can turn the segments layer on, but that would show all segments in the vicinity, and with the route displayed, it is almost impossible to see segments that are overlayed with the route. There is no list of segments either. I am sorry to tell you, but this "optimization" of the UX has made it much harder to use.Also, there is a problem with the implementation - it is impossible to select a segment to see its details if its start aligns with a POI or a waypoint. Also, it seems that a lot of segments are simply missing.

Is there actually anyway of doing this? Exporting the GPX file from FATMAP to upload to strave doesnt work as it only exports a route GPX and not an activity GPX.My strava activities show up in FATMAP, but i want it to behave the other way around (otherwise none of my fatmap activities go in to my apple health data)Thanks

Suddenly I'm getting lots of pictures in my feed from people I do not follow. Seems to be coming from clubs I am a member of. Almost exclusively pictures of bikes. Some days so many that it feels like real spam. Is there a way to filter these out or is quitting the clubs my only options?

Sorry, Strava team, what have you done on creating routes? What worked perfectly before now doesn't! Shifting proposed way between two route points to another route does not work correctly anymore. Sometimes it's possible, sometimes not. And 'Undo' also does not do what one expect. Please keep it simple as it was before! Thanks very much in advance, Rainer.

Many cyclist friends are abandoning Strava because of the segments. They would like to be able to make the times on the segments private but still leave the activity visible. Introducing a function that makes the times on the segments private would solve the problem.

I submitted a ticket over 3 weeks ago and still haven’t had a response

My Apple Watch has stopped syncing workouts. It was fine then only synced a piece of a workout (no map only distance data) and since then nothing. When I save it, it says uploaded, but it doesn’t appear in my workouts. I have tried everything and many emails from help, but they just keep getting closed and nothing gets done. It is really frustrating and I didn’t change any settings it just doesn’t work anymore. Anyone else having similar issues, or suggestions. I also uploaded some pictures recently, but they aren’t in my workout, but appeared in my mates. Surely there is a data issue here. Like I say Strava help and Twitter haven’t responded, maybe Strava community will know what to do. Thanks

I’ve done 2 runs tonight and on my second one I cannot see any best effort data at all and it’s isn’t showing on app or website. It was a 3.25km run so presumably long enough to get at least some data. I can see the best effort data for everyone else who i ran with and it is showing for my first run of the night but not the second.segment info and pace info all showing fine, just nothing on best efforts… very strange! Help.    

I've had 2 issues with activities syncing to my strava/phone when returning home. Have tried doing a small activity to see if it triggers it to sync but still nothing. Any ideas please?

I've been flagging a lot of activities lately, and finding the entire process very difficult due to only being allowed to flag 10 activities under a 24 hour period (starting from when the last flag was raised). This is the most problematic on Walking segments, with users either accidentally logging activities that should be runs/bike, forgetting to turn off when they get in the car, or worse just doing it deliberately, but the volume of people doing it is very high - over COVID this became very problematic as most of the data I see of people abusing leader boards stems from 2020-2021.Can we review this process as the segment leaderboards are frequently abused and the limit to the flag feature does not allow easy community validation, which Strava insists is the only way to manage these Segment Leaderboards. Some suggestions below1. Flag Limit- Increase the number of flags available- Alternatively, stagger the number of flags permissible relati

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Since a couple of weeks the routes I created do not show up in the android app anymore. When I navigate to Maps, routes, saved routes I constantly get the error message: Strava server does not respond, try again later. Since I see no other reports on this in this community, could it be that I have a "special route" or too many saved routes? 

It would be useful knowing what ideas have actually been approved and are in the development pipeline. At present it seems ideas are given but nothing thereafter.. 

Strava guesses power - "Est Power". Is there a way to export these predictions to a fit or gpx file or some other?

Hi!   I have saved some routes on strava to ride and would like to see them on my Garmin edge 840. They sync to the Garmin connect app, but for some, they send zero data to the device. It syncs and the course name shows up, but the summary is zero miles and zero elevation while the map only displays blue. It is not for all routes, but most. what can I do?

There is a lot of fake KOM and cups these days where athletes forget the bike computer in the car or use an E-bike. these records could be easily detected. I suggest Strava to be more tough on these records by implementing some double checks like heart rate vs. power if someone wants to be in top 10 for a segment the results should be accepted only if there is more metrics than speed available, a power result or heart rate to validate. also it should be easier to reposrt a fake achievement

Over the past few days, Strava appears to have rolled out some new changes and, personally, don't feel these are for the better.  A couple of "quality of life" changes appear to be reverted:1) Heatmapping - prior to this update, there are two aspects of this that were better than the current version.  First, cookies seemed to "save" your preferences.  Each time I create a route, it now seems that I have to go into the heatmap drop down, unselect global, and reselect My Heatmap.  Yes, takes 2 seconds but this is different from how it was prior.  The other problem is the intrusiveness of the heatmapping button which now overlays the map.  This, along with the segment button, was a far better UX design as real estate on the map is limited (see next comment).  Any time you are mapping routes to the northern and western sides of the map, these buttons frequently get in the way.2) Show Elevation- Enabling this now takes up half

Be a great feature to create Pull data from Group rides.  Could use Fly By data to determine who from the group is on the lead and therefore Pulling, and capture the data for when they are on the front (Power, Speed, HR, etc) and create a summary listing each Pull as well as a total/average for all Pulls.

There are tons of data available when using a watch os device that is saved in iOS. One of them is cadence, which is a datapoint all runners want. 

I looked at my power curve comparing 'All of 2022' to 'Last 6 weeks' and discovered that a ride that I did 10 days ago shows up in 'All of 2022' curve, but not in the 'Last 6 Weeks' curve. Is this a bug or is there some logical explanation for it?

Heya, last week I tried to submit this post, it's marked as spam for some reason. I tried to use the "report" link as suggested but it doesn't seem to have done the trick, so just asking here if a moderator could do their magic please... thanks 🙂👍