Strava Features Chat

App show both miles and km measurements. One in parenthesis is something. If I bike XXkm, it could show on app as XXkm(XXmi).

So I have been seeing this issue which started about 2 months back. Basically, when I upload a third party app generated GPX ride file to Strava (manually), strava forgets about my manually selected bike. I could see the bike show up in my ride acitivity page but give it 1 minute and a web page fresh would have my ride set to no bike selected. I have been editing my rides recently to make sure the selected bike sticks. It is pretty annoying. No discussions I saw online talk about this. Strava support told me they have no solution to that and I should ask in the community. Any help would be appreciated.

I’m not getting the “Strava Power Skills” feature on my Android app.  Just uninstalled and reinstalled the app and still no Power Skills.  How do I get it.  (I’m subscribed and have subscribed for many years. All rides the past 6 years have had PMs.)

We just had a mountain bike race last night.  Apparently, a bunch of us had our rides auto-flagged because the system thought they were e-bike rides.  When I first looked at my ride in the mobile app, I saw a box at the top that asked me to clarify if it was an e-bike ride (ride had been flagged already).  At least it gave me an option to select “ride” at that point and it was all good for me.  For a number of others (see the links below), they did not get the notification as far as they were aware, but their rides were auto-flagged.  This was just a normal MTB race on our local trails.  We are not pro-level riders, so the efforts shouldn’t appear that extraordinary.  Heck, I don’t even think we were taking any KOMs/QOMs with the efforts, so it wasn’t even a comparison to existing times on segments.  It appears the new auto-flagging system is too sensitive if it is catching that many people in a single event that are all clearly legitimate, even with heart rate data to support it.Here

So, I’ve noticed a new “feature” when recording a biking session on the iWatch.  And I can’t figure out how to turn it off.  Help please!When I start recording a biking session from my iWatch for the first little bit everything is good with the display (watch face).  I can look down and see my distance, speed, etc.  But after a while this new screen shows up that says something to the effect of, “we’ll show you your data when you are completing a known segment” (it’s not exactly this -- I don’t stop to look).  I can get back to the “normal” screen by swiping up or down (can never recall), except when I have gloves on like this morning.  This “feature” is driving me crazy.  It’s really a safety issue -- who wants to be fiddling with their watch WHILE THEY ARE BIKING.  Strava, give me a way to turn this off!

Since around 18 September 2025 I’ve noticed a drastic decrease in Relative Effort calculation.This leads to my Fitness & Freshness graph saying I’m much fresher than reality and it will also go down significantly week after week.I’ve seen the recent HR zones update and I barely changed my zones, so that shouldn’t be the reason.Any idea how it’s possible? Anyone with same problem? 18 September activity with low relative effort:https://www.strava.com/activities/15852332534/overview 11 August similar activity with much higher relative effort (despite lower average HR):https://www.strava.com/activities/15420377713/overview

I run quite some PR segments today, but almost none has been recognized with PR icon. There is few 3rd places icons missing as well. This is actually the 1st time I have noticed achievements for segments are missing.Here you can check my ride.Example image:  Can you please check was was going on with Strava today and designrating

I can't create routes anymore because the tour planner is constantly having problems, it doesn't capture road points, and it wastes time. It is impossible to create a normal route. I recently had to change the app to create routes, but it makes no sense to be a subscriber and not be able to create my own routes. Does this happen to you too?

Hello riders 😀 !There's a suspicious rider cheating his way to KOM's by mainpulating gpx files & editing them through 3rd party or web to change his segment time for the KOMs.here are my points to back up my claim.1> Riders taken back to back 9 koms with in 13 days on climbs ranging 3-12% average gradient, no recovery , no rest between high intensity efforts & no structural training is there.2> No use of any sensors , no clipless shoes only flat sports shoes are used,the pictures never match the time of the ride & expressions never justify the high intensity efforts.3> On analysing gpx files through web, riders data never matches with other riders data on the leader board, the online gpx tool exports gpx reports as PDF for everyone who's on the leaderboard but his report comes as a PHP file.4> Rider has  an obsession with being at number 1 one the board and almost every ride is a KOM ride. On flagging rider becomes aggressive because there are

like hiking, trail run, backcountry skiing.  this should then factor into relative effort, especially for ascending and descending.  heart rate is not everything and does not adequately reflect work that muscles perform, especially anaerobically.   

I created a route, downloaded it for offline use. When I arrived at my location, there was no mobile signal so I put my device in airplane mode. I retrieved the saved route, and selected start route. The app started recording. There was an orange line, indicating my route. All good. I push the power button on my phone to turn off my screen to save battery. At my first intersection, I pushed the power button to turn my screen on, and I watch the orange line disappear. To get it back I need to press the back button on my phone to return to the previous screen in the app, then choose “Start Route” again. The orange line is back. I then turn off my screen again, and when I turn it back on, poof, orange line gone again. I go back to the previous screen in app, select “Start Route”, and orange line is back. I turn off my screen, and...repeat, repeat, repeat, for 13 miles of my hike.

Why there is still not padel activity but pickleball yes??There is like 30 milions players all around world and still not activity…. 

I recently subscribed to Strava, but I noticed that I don’t have access to the new share style, which I understand is available only for subscription accounts. Could you please let me know how I can enable or use this feature?  

Hi,  I have the free version of the app.  I prefer to see my average (AVG) speed when I walk/run/faint.  Until today, as shown above,  the app would display my "AVG SPEED" (just above 3.6) while I walked.  I try to maintain this speed.  Today, as shown above, the app displays my live SPEED as I walked (above 3.6..no more AVG SPEED). Does anyone know how I can get the AVG SPEED to be constantly displayed instead of my live SPEED?  Thank you 

I was a little surprised that so much of my training was in Z2 when I expected more in Z1. However, upon further, investigation there seems to be something very wrong with the algorithm calculating time in each zone. I edited my HR zones several times, including making the Z2 range 175-176bpm (should be a very small amount of time spent at such a small & high range) and and no matter what it said I spent around 44 hours in Z2. It is mathematically impossible for me to spend 66% of my time at 175-176bpm and 67% of my time at 144-157bpm (see screenshots).  

Lately when I try to create a route starting from the neighborhood road in front of my house, it automatically jumps the route onto the nearby golf course cart path. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?  

After changing the title, strava displays entirely different type of data: moving time changes to elapse time, pace (important in rowing) is gone and cannot be displayed at all. I don’t change anything except the title. Does any one have any similarexperience?

Seeing some very weird anomalies lately with mapping: In the first image, this was a short, 6 mile run that was saved.  Upon returning to my saved routes, not only did it save a Trans-Atlantic run - the distance was way short.     In the second image, there is a missing “link” between the street and the path (not the issue).  To navigate this, I switched to manual mode and clicked on the path.  A wormhole opened and added 12409.62 miles to my run - a bit further than I’d hoped on this route.  In reality, this was probably no more than 10 yards.  This has happened on numerous occasions both in manual and automatic mapping mode where waypoints that should be about a mile add hundred or thousands of miles.   I have run into several occasions lately where maps will “spin” on updating and become unresponsive.  It’s happened about 3-4 times in the past couple weeks.  Not a huge deal on short runs but kind of annoying when I was 17 miles into mapping my long run and had to redo the whole thin

For the past few weeks Strava has randomly been categorising some of my bike rides as Mountainbike Rides.  Each time I have to answer comments from friends and have to go in and change the category.  I asked Strava how to stop this and they couldn’t/wouldn’t help.  Anyone know how to stop it happening?

It would be super useful if Strava could introduce a feature where it is possible to search your saved routes by distance to a location - e.g. a slide bar and search bar for location to search within 10 km of a postcode or pin on the map. This would also be useful to do for activities in the search past activities. I’ve made a lot of routes and have to remember what each is called and where it is, which I can’t always do so being able to filter by location would be amazing. Or even as previous topics have suggested to have your routes put onto a map overlapping for visualisation would help too.It would also be useful if this feature took into account the whole route, so if any of the route passes within a 20 km circle from the location specified

When I try to tag someone in reply to my activities , the @ thing brings nothing up or if it does, then it very rarely it shows the name. I have been having this problem for the last one month or so. Quite frustrating...

Hello, hoping to find support.I’m a premium subscriber, I have set my FTP, age, weight, … in my profile. All data is being open and shared according to the settings. I mainly do indoor cycling with Power (Wahoo Kickr Bike Shift) intervals. When opening my ‘Best Efforts’ on my Strava mobile app, it mentions ‘Only you can see your power data’. While the setting is actually set to publicly available. Additionally, I don’t see the new Power Skills graph in my progess tab. Is it related to the mention of the visibility of my power data? 

 Hello,  I’m participating in the Rouvy Mallorca challenge and this last week’s route has some egregious KOMs from someone who rode an elevation faked 90 mile route with dozens of KOMs making the whole thing aggressively downhill under the purpose of “sight seeing”. Unfortunately one particular user keeps clearing flags and happily takes about “his KOMs” despite apparently being able to sustain 44+ mph up 6+ grades for minute after minute (all thanks to the gradient faking). I have flagged multiple times and he just clears them over and over despite the obviously faked ride. I’m wondering if there’s a way for Strava to clear this up since upon checking Rouvy there are a bunch of these elevation faked routes. Can the new cheating algorithm identify when the activity elevation profile doesn’t match the activity at all? I’ve actually ridden this route (leaving my ride hidden to avoid messing with segments) so you can see below how egregious it looks with that gradient overlaid on a 5.9% c

Since today I can suddenly see who of my contacts is a subscriber and who isn't. That means they can see the same for me. Surely that's private information I didn't give strava permission to share with my friends?I once got a subscription to support Strava, but that doesn't mean I want to broadcast it to the world. It feels extremely pretentious. Can this be turned off? And if not, can I get my subscription cancelled and refunded? It still runs until March but surely this wasn't part of the agreement I signed. 

Hi! I’m on my phone and I can only see about 200 of the 330 people I follow. Recently 3 people unfollowed me, and I’d like to unfollow them back, but they’re in the group that I can’t see. I usually do follow-for-follow, so I want to keep it balanced. Does Strava show all followers and following if I log in on a laptop or computer? I’m not sure how to fix this and it’s a bit confusing lol