Strava Features Chat

I created a challenge for some friends and I. For some reason, I cannot select Trail Run as one of the sports to count to words mileage in the challenge. Is this a bug?  

After the last update, the lap button disappeared. Does anyone have the same problem?

I could not find them anymore? Have they disappeared again from Strava? Seems stupid…

Strava currently supports Tennis and Squash, but one of the fastest-growing racket sports in the world is missing: Padel (paddle tennis). Right now, padel players must log their sessions as Tennis or Workout, which: distorts activity statistics makes training history inaccurate prevents padel-specific tracking breaks discovery of other padel players  Padel is not a niche sport anymore: it is exploding across Spain, Europe, and Latin America millions of players use wearables and Strava to track their activity professional leagues, clubs, and tournaments are growing rapidly  Spain alone has over 6 million padel players and more than 20,000 padel courts (source: International Padel Federation – https://www.padelfip.com). What should be addedAdd Padel as an official sport type with: time ca

How can I permanently toggle the global heat map on? In previous versions of the app, it would stay on when selected, but now it turns itself off every time I go into a different app or my phone screen turns off. It's a really useful feature for me and it's getting very annoying to have to switch it on all the time. Thank you 

Today's message from Strava was "You brought the watts. That effort packed serious power. Open your stats to see how strong you output really was"Really? Pretty sure you know I'm not 15yo.

I have a challenge I setup for some friends and for some reason I can't select Trail Run as a sport.. . Is this a bug?  

I’ve paid for my premium but it’s not showing on my account or allowing me to use premium features like the map to make routes. Any help?

Apple has a feature where friends can track each other’s activities.  When I finish a walk or run, my friends get a watch notification that I finished and they can give a snarky response and we have fun with it.  Today I started a treadmill run from the strava app on my watch.  it tracked steps and millage and my rings were closed.  when I was done, I tapped “finish” and it finished.  no notification of any type was sent to my friends.  When I use the Pacer app to start a treadmill run, it tracks everything and sends a “treadmill run” activity notification to my friends.  So is it a setting I am missing or does Strava not integrat with apple activities?  any help would be appreciated.  None of my friends have strava so they cannot get notices through that app.   Question, if they get the app and remain on the free plan will they get my notices through that?

Hello,I manage to merge two activities using third-party tools, but when I do, I lose my power data.Is there a way to merge activities whilst keeping the power data?

Chinese: 跑步、健行的部分都沒有問題，但是戶外騎行，小米顯示的是7.92公里，Strava顯示的卻是78.7公里？平均速度也是差了十倍！English：Running and hiking are both fine, but for outdoor cycling there’s an issue: Xiaomi shows 7.92 km, while Strava shows 78.7 km. The average speed is also off by a factor of ten!  

I did a 1 hour run (activity link) on a treadmill (tracked via COROS watch), but am seeing 2000 hours of activity time on my Heart Rate and Pace Distribution screens on web and in the app. This is impacting my cumulative distributions also. How can I fix this? 

I moved from the iPhone 13 ProMax to the iPhone 17 ProMax in hopes that it was the old phone causing run tracking to be paused for no apparent reason, and while that issue was NOT solved, I’ve acquired yet another issue:Where my old phone showed 90 days of Apple activities I could choose to import, the new phone shows nothing; not even runs that happened since I got the new phone.How do I get Strava to see those Apple activities on the new phone that uses iOS26?  (as does the old phone)

I can’t find “Instant Workouts” on the Android App or website. Where are they lurking?  It says they’re supposed to show on the top of the home page feed.  I’m a subscriber.  App is up to date.  

I am interested in analysing my stops post ride. I would like to see where I rested on an activity (this affects your efficiency percentage on long rides such as Audaxes, i.e. ride time vs rest time) This can be where the stop was more than 1 minute no power or cadence registered speed below 3km per hour (in case of a wandering GPS) Ideally this would show in a table (similar to the existing Laps table) showing the rest start time (time of day and ride time) rest time the end time for each extended stop Even better if you could show these as locations on the activity map Many thanks for reading and hopefully upvoting this idea.

Is anyone else having problems with elevation showing as 0 (flat).All my runs in January are showing as no elevation. Last year's runs are fine. I haven't changed anything. Running the same routes, using the same Fitbit watch etc. Other runners in my area have elevation, just not me. I can't find any way to change the settings for it.It is a bit annoying to be running hills and it not track them at all.I have messaged Strava help, but they just replied with the help page wording that says it's done using the GPS or base map. It doesn't explain why I'm suddenl

Can’t see a feature that exists, but if there is can someone point me in the right direction, if not, may I suggest that Photos have a geolocation attached as well as have the ability for users to add a short description on each of their photos?

Hello, I record an alpine skiing activity from the strava app on my iphone.  I can see the map data on the screen before finishing the activity.  As soon as a I finish and hit upload, the activity uploads with np map data available.  As in the activity just says a distance elevation and time but there is no gps data.  When I export the activity it is a .fit file that is too small to have the gps data (<1kb). One of the times I had replied to a text message while the upload animation was playing.  I think there is something about the upload being interrupted and deleting the data locally before it is uploaded.  I never experienced this issue until this new update with animations on uploading.  This has now happened on 3 separate occasions.  Super frustrating because the gps data seems unrecoverable.  I’ll also try uploading the activity as a ride instead and switching it later to see if this solves it.

Currently, in the desktop version, if an activity has photos with GPS location on them, they are displayed as large round icons on the map. There’s no way to disable them, and they take a lot of space out of the map window. And as in the recent update the ability to resize map windows was removed (sorry, but why the heck?) and especially in the analysis view when there’s not even a possibility to make the map full screen, they take up an enormous amount of space, and block the view easily completely, when you try to fine tune the location of the sliders you want to check a certain section of the activity with. This is extremely annoying and frustrating.So, please, give as an option to toggle off the photo icons from all map windows.

When I go to share one of my activities I have no options of images to share including the stats sticker. I have my privacy settings to everyone and have updated the app to the latest version. I've attached a screenshot of the options I have once the share button is clicked for any activity. When I click the share to again at this stage it just gives a list of apps. Any help would be appreciated. TIA 

Did the developer think, when they released a feature, which allows to automatically hide the start- and end-point of a ride, that maybe, just MAYBE, that should NOT be applied to VIRTUAL rides?I can imagine, that someone does not want to bother setting up geo-zones of privacy, and they want to use the new feature (that is automatically enabled btw) for their IRL rides, that they do not want to have to edit each VIRTUAL ride? (especially in a clumsy way, where the start- and end-point have to be edited via separate sliders, instead of the UI providing a simple button, which disables hiding of anything, if people do not want to use the feature on that ride .. if it really "has to" be done manually for every VIRTUAL ride)Let's be honest - I do not care the slightest, if everyone knows, that I did a VIRTUAL ride in Spain, Chile, or Australia .. and I strongly doubt, that ANYONE does.

It would be helpful to be able to add two or three chains to a bike and have a way to rotate them. Example clicking on chain 2 would automatically pause chain 1 and vice versa. Chain rotation is becoming more common as more riders are starting to wax their chains!!  Noticed this has come up in the past but I don’t see a response by Strava or in the program!  What up?  If you’re going to charge as much as you are you need to support longevity in the program otherwise why should people continue to use the platform?  Help us out please! 

So the strava is unusable for me at this point, I use mi fitness to record my data and then when strava gets it it starts to show some bizarre stats like I made 12km on a 1km with 180 kmph speed 

I track everything with my Garmin watch and sync to Strava. When skiing (alpine skiing). Strava detects lifts and cuts them out so that the height profile becomes somehting like this (lifts take no time and do not count towards total distance): This is a fine feature which was requested here:  However, there is a bug in this logic. This is implemented in such a way by just removing all points where you are traveling upwards (sitting in a lift). This assumes that the lift only travels in a direct path, which is correct for majority of lifts. But larger gondola-lifts often have a middle-station and then continue the second part in a different direction than the first part. This confuses the Strava alg

Previously if you uploaded a photo to an activity, it would appear on the map at the correct location in a small box which was unobtrusive and you could still see your route map. Now it appears in a giant circle that looks ugly and completely obstructs the route map - if you’ve got more than 3 or 4 photos on a ride you basically can’t see the orange line at all (especially now you can’t make the map bigger any longer). Can we get this reverted to the original setting please?