Strava Features Chat

I have the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 and use the Strava app however everyday it frustrates me no end because it requires the screen to be used for most running functions - including a simple start and stop.  Typically I’m sweaty and therefore swiping the screen or pressing the screen buttons will not work.  Can the settings be changed to use the actual buttons of the watch instead?Next, if you are trying to appeal to runners, I’d suggest trying to incorporate more running features… even the ability to use for interval training.And finally, the app is often slow.

Dear Community,All emoji`s from my Strava web version are gone or being replaced for abbreviations after one of last Strava`s updates.It this gonna be fixed?

I have a question - why there is no option to load all photos and videos beforehand when I save a workout from my Garmin? For me, the workout first appears, then I add videos and photos. And in the meantime, up to 50 people give kudos, for an empty workout without photos!It should rather be that I have to load all media first, and save the workout and publish it on the feed at the end, when everything is ready.Please do this, because otherwise people watch empty workout records sometimes for 10 minutes because I have a lot of videos from the camera, and I care about a good presentation of the activity. 🚴🌟

Since a couple of weeks ago I get an annoying "vignetting" effect that blurs out the surroundings whenever I zoom out of an activity map in the mobile app. That makes it difficult to quickly assess the location of the route relative to the surrounding geography. It's also just plain annoying because it looks like a gratuitous feature that no one asked for.Can that be rolled back or made optional?

Is the Strava weather feature only available for the paid version? The toggle switch within the settings> weather menu is greyed out for me 

when trying to share activity on Facebook, it started yesterday, I get a random thumbnail of a woman (and it's not a prior photo I've used) when sharing the link, rather than the preferred image I use or even the map anymore.Anyone else has this issue? Is it something I’m doing wrong? or just strava?

Hello,Today in a paid subscription you see only top 7/8 and afterwards your time when outside top 10 which persons around you but I would like to see all my followers their times in table. Would that be possible?BrKris

First off, I am happy to see the big improvement in the automatic detection of impossible efforts across more activities.  Specifically, I am seeing it a lot more for running where people who are posting activities with sub 4 min/mile paces are frequently being marked as having a problem.  This is good and a great step forward from where things were. However, there is still an issue.  These activities that have been marked as auto-detected are still being listed in the challenge leaderboards.  The top 20 of the 5k running challenge for example is almost all activities that have been marked with “We detected an issue with this activity”.  Some of them are a week old and still showing on the leaderboard.  Why aren’t those activities removed from the leaderboard immediately when they are detected?  If the person ends up clearing up the issue, then the activity can be re-indexed onto the leaderboard, but in the meantime, they should be removed as soon as the system sees there is an obvious

Is it just me, or does it take forever to load when I click on the activity map to see details or on the photos? And by forever I mean I never have patience to wait for them to load so I just give up. It was so much better with the old interface before they switched to this see everything in one page style. It's such a disappointment, cause I used to do it a lot and now I just gave up. 

My routes now has the same route saved potentially hundreds of times. I got tired of clicking through pages after 11 pages. It is a route titled Afternoon Ride, dated January 16, 2025, but the routes were all created January 17th. They all have different route IDs. Is there a way to do or request a bulk cleanup? I did not save someone’s route on January 17th 100+ times.

How do I turn this feature off? I don't need an AI pat on the back. I just want the data clean and efficient.

can i request a refund for a mistaken subscription charge on my account. I accidentally subscribed to a one-year plan, and the payment was auto-deducted without my notice. Unfortunately, I used my school allowance for this transaction, and I am currently in urgent need of the funds!!!!

I want to make a group goal for 200km run total. How can i invite people who aren't subscribed?

I forgot to end my activity before getting in the car and driving home. I cropped my activity to remove the drive, but it’s still showing up as “my longest activity on Strava” It would be nice if this updated when the activity gets updated. 

UPDATE FROM STRAVA: Hello. This issue is now resolved. Thanks to everyone who posted here about it, we appreciated your patience while we worked to get this fixed.   Has anyone had this issue? I am able to share activities successfully to FB from either desktop app or mobile app from Strava. However, I get a random thumbnail of a woman (and it's not a prior photo I've used) when sharing the link, rather than the preferred image I use or even the map anymore. I could not find anything on Google, Reddit or the Strava Community Hub about this issue. Most searches get results about dealing with "random followers" or other map issues but not rendering issues to other platforms. TY! I love Strava otherwise. 🙂

I’ve created a group for a team of people for accountability for their training as we head into an international tournament next year. We can’t seem to share links in the group discussion, is this a bug or are we doing it wrong?

Since a couple weeks/ months the feedback doesn't show I rode together with other strava users. I haven't changed any settings. It worked woth those users in the past. Any idea what I can do? Adding/ inviting to the ride doesn't be the answer. That will add up the km's to my totale which is not gooed. Thanks in avance. Regards, Rick

I have data in Strava going back to 2012.   Not even sure how long I have been a subscribing member but a very long time.  Would be a great to have both LifeTime PRs and Best Efforts and the ability to choose default timeframe for PRs and Best Efforts. Unfortunate truth is my 2012 PRs and Best Efforts are all but irrelevent to me now.   Would love to be able to set my “age group” so that the default for all my PRs and Best Efforts would be my personal results while I was in that Age Group and not my All Time Bests.   Alternatively, I would be able to set my default time frame for what I see on a daily basis.  Frankly its annoying that I am getting my ATBs on a daily basis.  

Strava shows the Apple watch indoor bike ride as just a ride and tags it as an indoor ride. Why does it not categorize the ride as a virtual ride just like Zwift and Fulgaz?

Would like to view e bike live segments on my Garmin edge 520 plus but cant get them to come up

I’m new to Strava. I did a ride around 12km on my bike commute yesterday. The GPS tracking went haywire, scribbled all over the middle of my route and subsequently says that I cycled 16km. I assumed that I could remove the error part by editing the map, but it appears that I can’t do so? This clearly required feature is available on Runkeeper! Can I not remove GPS tracking errors?

My Polar app have recorded both total time and moving time. 10 minutes between these two times, but when I upload to Strava the pace is calculated based on the total time and not the moving time. Anyone know how to solve this problem?

I used the new AI-generated route generator on the mobile app (why wouldn’t this start on the normal route builder?).  After several attempts to get a route that seemed rational, the few resulting routes took me on very dangerous roads.  One had me on the main interstate the runs through my city.  The one I used recently was in a new are that I hadn’t explored yet (unfamiliar with the roads), so I gave it a try.  I really wanted this to work well.  In the end, the route had me ride on about 12 miles of very unsafe roads that were single lane, no shoulder, busy with traffic.  What I learned is that these routes should just not be trusted and only used in areas you’re already familiar with.  I think there are a few necessary features that are missing for “safe” route making to ever work properly.Time of day of the sourced bike traffic:  Riding at 6AM on a specific road may end with a much different experience than riding at 10AM.  Trying to create routes for different times of the day mi

The activity type field in the activities.csv file is “Bike” for both road rides and gravel rides, so the distinction is essentially lost. The activities.csv file should include a “sport type” field (matching the API), which supports values like “GravelRide.” As it stands, users are unable to obtain a faithful copy of their data in bulk.

When I check my efforts on a given segment, Strava always shows "Running Power" (watts) by default, instead of heart rate — and there’s no way to change this or set a personal preference.I’d like to request that users be allowed to choose which metric is displayed by default in the segment effort table.For short or consistent segments, GAP (grade-adjusted pace) and power are strongly correlated with actual pace. In these cases, showing watts doesn't add much value if pace is already shown.However, heart rate does reflect meaningful differences in internal effort between similar paces, and is a crucial metric for runners who want to understand their performance and progression.With modern watches now sending power data automatically, users are being forced to view data they didn't opt into — and in many cases, it's not useful or relevant.Thank you for considering this improvement. It would make the analysis experience much better for many of us.