04-11-2023 09:52 AM - edited 04-11-2023 09:52 AM
Hello and welcome to Tuesday Chat with Team Strava!
Strava integrates with a wide range of devices and platforms. Today we're going to talk about the Strava/Apple Watch integration and share some commonly asked questions.
You can record and upload activities from your Apple Watch to Strava one of two ways: using the Strava watch app or the native Apple Fitness app.
With the Strava watch app, activities are synced directly to the Strava mobile app on your phone. Using Apple Fitness, activities are stored in Apple Health and synced to Strava once a connection between the two apps has been established.
3rd party activities (from Zwift, for example) uploaded to Strava can be synced to Apple Health, however 3rd party activities synced to Apple Health will not be available for import to Strava.
If you are using the Strava watch app and have a Strava subscription, you will have access to Beacon functionality, which when enabled will automatically send a text to your chosen safety contact during your activity.
Frequently Asked Questions:
If the activity is still not appearing in your feed, please record a short test activity and save it to see if that helps push through the missing upload.
This should force a sync of any missing activities.
If you have an Apple Watch/Strava related question that we haven’t covered in our FAQ, feel free to drop us a reply to this post and we’ll do our best to help you out. Or, if you’re currently using an Apple Watch with Strava and would like to share your experience, we would love to hear from you!
12-18-2023 05:37 AM
Hi @EKCAN
Thanks so much for commenting about this. We have an existing feature suggestion over on our ideas board for this. We'd welcome your comments and vote (kudos). Thanks so much.
11-02-2023 02:20 AM
Strava you need to evolve and make sure you keep up with wearable devices. iWatch support for cycling power meters should be a simple feature to incorporate into Strava, Apple announced cycle power meter features at the start of the year.
You have increased the cost for premium subscriptions, I do not see any additional value to the premium service. Evolve and adapt or lose paying subscribers. If you plan to add support for iWatch cycle power meter data, communicate timelines.
12-18-2023 05:40 AM
Hi @pyperk
Thanks so much for your comments on this, and we appreciate your enthusiasm for using your Apple Watch with Strava. We do have an existing feature suggestion over on our Ideas Board that has gained considerable traction with the Community. Please consider adding your comments and vote (kudos) to that thread.
This helps us keep the forums organized and makes sure suggestions are easy to find and votes for them aren’t divided across duplicate ideas. Don’t forget to show your support by clicking on the kudos button.
Thanks so much for your contribution.
12-18-2023 05:48 AM
already did, along with many others.. not seeing any evidence of this feature happening. I have cancelled my subscription.
10-31-2023 08:11 AM
I'm facing a bug since watchOS update to 10.1: the clock from the upper right corner is missing. Is this a known bug? I already tried switching language to English to be sure it was not a localization bug but that didn't help either. Thanks in advance.
10-30-2023 02:39 AM
Hi there,
I have turned on all the toggles (off and on like suggested), so that my health app via the Apple Watch and Strava should be connected. I have recorded many runs with my Apple Watch app but it still says no workouts detected in last 30 days on health app. Do you know what might be the problem? Everything is turned on, even automatic syncing. Just nothing shows up.
09-20-2023 09:52 PM
Hi @Jane you said, "...the mobile app and watch app operate independently and the watch cannot be paired to your phone as an external heart rate sensor," but Ride with GPS has shown that is not true and their app very reliably is paired to our phones as an external heart rate sensor. We have had this feature for more than a year using Ride with GPS and now that Apple's Watch OS 10 and iOS 17 have been released, Apple now showcases this programmable connection in native support via Apple Fitness. Strava can program around this protocol too. And Strava should.
08-08-2023 10:57 AM
On Apple Watch it would be great if we could change the audio cues to alert at 0.5km/mile the same way as we can on the iPhone app. Any plans to implement this feature?
07-13-2023 08:28 AM
Please add a function to use the always on display of the Apple Watch to review data whenever we want without activating the screen manually (not so easy while mountain biking).
07-13-2023 08:27 AM
Please add the live segments to Apple Watch 🙂
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