Strava Features Chat

Dear Community,I recently did a run this week with a large group of runners.Strava had auto-grouped me with the other runners when I uploaded my activity into Strava.  However, I accidentally pressed the "Leave Group" for the run activity.Is there a way for me to manually add myself back to this Group Activity without deleting and re-uploading from my Apple Fitness?I did lodge a Strava support request (#3362083) but have yet to receive any constructive feedback. Strava simply advised me to refer to their FAQ page which doesn’t address this issue and this Community Hub page.Many thanks, team! Regards,Ivan   

Hi! My Strava statistics on my profile only show the distance I’ve covered this year from running, not other sports (hiking, walking, riding etc). Is there a way to fix this? Thank you! 

I’ve recorded my first golf activity on my Garmin Forerunner tonight & I can see the activity in Garmin Connect, however it hasn’t uploaded to Strava. Any help or advice much appreciated

The new route is broken for over a week since the launch of the new heatmap. Plotting any point gives an error Tried on Chrome, Edge and on multiple PCs. Tried several different settings including manual mode on/off, heatmaps on/off. 

Is anybody struggling to build a route today? I have tried across multiple devices and in manual and non-manual mode and the result is the same. I keep getting the error message telling me to make the way points closer even though I am doing this. This is very frustrating as I really need to get this route built ASAP. I have turned off devices, restarted them,  re-logged in et cetera, all the normal things but nothing seems to be making any difference! Any ideas please?

The past couple of days I have been unable to create routes in Strava. It’s very strange because I have had no issues in the past. The process of creating a route starts okay, but then as points around 50km, I get the following error message...“Error: Sorry, we couldn’t complete that action. Please try plotting the point again. This can occur when routing across large distances, so try plotting more frequent waypoints that are closer together.”I follow the direction in the error message and it doesn’t help. If I cancel out of the route in progress, and start over again, I get the same error message almost at the beginning of mapping out a route.This is very frustrating! Has anyone else had this issue lately? Have you been able to resolve it? If so, how?

Once again, a basic capability of Strava that was working fine has decided suddenly to not work at all.Trying to create a route. Select my start point, fine. But when I select another point, no matter how close or far, I get the dreaded "Error: Sorry, we couldn’t complete that action. Please try plotting the point again.This can occur when routing across large distances, so try plotting more frequent waypoints that are closer together." Closer together than 1 km???And yes, tried this in multiple browsers, same story. Even tried importing an existing route and editing it ... same story, the big red banner.Any help/comment/feedback/suggestions appreciated. Just doing my head in.

I want to create a route visiting 270 postcodes I have. Is there a way of not plotting this one-by-one, either in Strava, or a third party option?(No problem splitting route in half if file too large)with thanks

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.

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.