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Please provide a SORT OPTION for My Strava Segments. Having over 500 segments managing them is a nightmare, especially when Garmin limits the number to 100 (Garmin says it is Strava that is the problem here). Rather than indulging in AI gimmickry (that mainly describes the obvious and is therefore of little use), please sort out the (easy) basics first..

Please create such a swimming (5km distance) challenge for August 2025https://www.strava.com/challenges/March-Swim-5K-2024 I really need it for corporate sport event organization.Please create it!

How long does it usually take for Strava support to respond?

I'd like to request a refund for a subscription that was automatically deducted from my account.

 I don't understand why Strava continues to have points where it gets bad GPS data and suddenly jumps your location by a mile and then back to the correct position.   If I'm walking clearly this isn't possible. It seems it should be pretty easy to programmatically detect these outliers and remove them.

I recently opened a chat about my best efforts not updating on runs. I’ve tried to refresh segments, change activity from ride back to run and also used the “correct distance” but nothing is working. I,ve attached a picture of my activity as an example. Even though there is barely a minute in the time, it should still show as a Best Effort. Also today I did a 10 km run and it said I did a PR but it was slower than my last 10km. It was my longest run but that isn’t showing in my best efforts. I know some comments have said that elapsed time is considered with PRs?? Even taking that into consideration, my best efforts times don’t reflect that and I’m sure that when it says you’ve done a PR then in fact, that should be your best time. How can you effectively train to get better if the times/PRs are wrong. Frustrated with Strava...it’s my no 1 training tool and I don’t feel like any of the times are accurate!

Currently, when I enter Strava via an app notification, I then see a notification badge / counter on the Notification Centre icon. This is actually the same notification that I’ve just clicked into, but it’s not marked as read.Ideally, this notification would be marked as read as I’ve clicked into it. It would stop me having to actively click into the Strava Notification Centre just to mark notifications as read.

Every time I open the app the UI design gets worse and worse. Please can they stop complicating it.Also what is up with these new shield icons - it’s actually terrible. 

I have the latest app version on my iPhone 15 (iOS 18), but the user interface does not feature the latest design. I deleted and re-installed the app a couple of times but the problem remains. This is really annoying. Any comments on this are greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone,I'm trying to improve my times on nearby segments using Strava Live Segments, but I’m struggling to get any real value from it in my region.This might be fine in flat areas or velodromes, but as most of the people, I ride in a 3D world. In my area, it’s impossible to go anywhere without climbing or descending: 150 meters of elevation gain and loss every 10 kilometers is just a normal ride. But the real issue isn't the hills themselves. Live Segments could still be useful on a long, steady climb or descent. The problem is the alternation between flat, climbing, and descending sections, which makes pacing truly important, and the feature almost useless.What I really want is to pace myself realistically against my own past efforts. I don’t care how others perform on the segment; I just want a real, effort-based comparison with my own ride history. I understand that Strava might not be able to show other’s pacing or strategy data due to intellectual prop

I just finished a mountain bike ride at a bike park.First I wish Strava had a bike park option so ot didn't record the lift time.  They do for skiing why not MTB's?So this Athlete Intelligence tells me about my epic day and setting records on my climbs. Hey Strava bros. Your AI isn't very intelligent if it can't tell the difference between a bicycle and gondola. Please stop wasting the precious little engineering time on this AI crap and spend it on improving the app. Like maybe giving us MTB bike park as an activity option. 

Map data is not showing properly. Even I have trouble shooted with so many ways still won’t works out.on the direct route if some cuts are coming, there is small drift in the corner of the road.In other tracking app’s it is working fine. Attached screen shot with so many drifts in the straight route 

I heavily use the Personal heat maps feature, specifically the Red and Blue colors because they were the most legible. However, after the recent Maps update, these colors have changed and now I find it much harder to see. Now it'sore like the other colors, which have always been hard to see. 

I don’t know if I am posting in the right place to get help. I used my Strava today for a bike ride and I noticed Strava added a big orange pause button. I’ve seen an issue happen before with the MapMyRide app on my phone when they used  to have a big orange pause button. I ended up with a big button burned on my phone glass. My phone wasn’t even a year old when it happen. I think it mostly happens from the reflection of the sun hitting the colored button and then reflecting on the glass when riding for prolonged periods of time. MapMyRide switched to a black and smaller button and I never saw an issue with it again but, the old larger button is still burned on my old screen. Please look into what I am saying and do something about it if you see what I am saying could happen. I would hate for everyone to get a BIG pause button burned into their phone glass. I am trying to help prevent that from happening by bring it to Strava’s attention. 

I’ve started seeing the ‘Plan your weekend ride’ carousel at the top of my feed. Does anyone know how to switch this off? It’s showing me rides that are miles away from my location. 

The Flyover thing is kinda nice, but as I play through  an activity the frame rate progressively degrades on my iPhone 15. On longer rides, it can drop as low as 1 frame per second. January 16th: UPDATE FROM STRAVAHello and thank you to everyone who posted here.We are aware of this issue and are currently investigating. I will post any updates here when they become available. Sorry for the issue and we ask for your patience while we work on getting it fixed.

 I’ve been a paid subscriber for many years and the appom my iPhone 16 promax just started to show only average yesterday. Is there a setting that changed?GPS works fine, but the app just started to say the GPS is intermittent today. Mapmyride works fine (I always have MapMyRide running in the background and have for years because Strava has failed a few times over the years and luckily I had Mapmyride running to save the stats (MMR has NEVER failed me)Is there now some kind of adjustment for the app to show live speed? (Bicycle)I’m going to erase and reinstall and try it. Will report if any difference Thanks

I‘ve tracked more than 500 rides with my Wahoo Elemnt Bolt and synced them on Strava. I noticed that some activities I tracked long time ago are not displayed anymore in the Strava activity section. I did not delete them. Whereas all rides are still counted in the personal statistics, the number of total kilometers is incorrect. ~4000 km are missing. My aim is to restore the complete track record.I could add rides summing up 4000 km manually in order to correct total kilometers, however the problem is not the number of rides (which is correct) but the missing kilometers.  Does anyone have an idea what causes this issue and knows how it can be resolved?

There seems to be a bug with the weekly log whilst tracking strength exercises, when completing a strength exercise, it doesn't count towards weekly log.Although it shows a dot on the graph which is accurate, "current" still shows as 0, and "to go" still shows 2. Apologies if I've posted this in the wrong place, I'm new here lolThanks

Hi, I live in Germany wirh my family and have a single account and now i will be change in family for my daughter and wife. Is this possibble?  Thanks for the response and help,Jens

Hi Strava team,I was reading through the info on developers.strava.com/docs/uploads about how devices are detected from FIT files using the manufacturer and product fields.I'm working on a small project where I compare GPS performance between different devices — for example, two watches worn during the same race — to analyze things like drift and accuracy. I’m generating FIT files from that data, which include the manufacturer and product ID fields as specified in the FIT format.I’d like Strava to show the correct device name when those files are uploaded, if possible.Just wondering: Is there a list somewhere of which manufacturer and product ID pairs in FIT files are recognized by Strava and mapped to device names? Thanks a lot — this w

My relative efforts shoes the bar charts with all my activities but underneath in the details it only shows 5 instead of 7(if i ride every day) All my rides have a HR information from heart monitor. Any ideas why is this happening? Thanks

Want to show off your latest Strava activity on Instagram and let friends check it out themselves? Here’s a step-by-step guide to sharing your activity directly to your Instagram story—with a clickable link.🏃 Step-by-Step InstructionsStep 1: Start from the Strava AppOpen the Strava app.   Tap on the activity you want to share (run, ride, etc.). Requires a map or photo uploaded.   Hit the share icon (box with arrow) from the activity screen.  

I can log in on my PC but not on my smartphoneWhen I log in, I get a brief sentence. But I can't read itI deleted the app and reinstalled it

I am building a web-based calculator that helps athletes estimate how much time they need to complete a specific lap based on their previous activity data.I would like to ask: Is it allowed to access a user’s lap data from their Strava profile using the API, with their permission and proper authentication? Are there specific scopes or limitations I should be aware of when requesting lap-level data? Can this data be used to provide insights or time predictions back to the authenticated user, as part of my app?