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I’ve been recording my workouts on Strava for a while now, and for the last couple days, Strava has been in some sort of time warp and has been counting my time really slowly. Just this morning, I took a 50 minute class, and when I returned to my phone to stop the Strava timer, it had only been going for 18 minutes. This happened a couple other times this week. My phone is in a locker, as it always is in these type of workouts, so there’s nothing to pause it. The app is as updated as can be, and so is my phone. Nothing has changed! Has this happened to anyone here? What should I do?

 

 

Best answer by Jana_S

You must have been planking, that would explain the slowing of time… 🙈

Ok, seriously now 🙂

I’m not sure what's happening, but it looks like the app stops measuring at some point. First I thought it's the moving time vs. elapsed time difference, but when I looked at your activities via the Strava website, it seems that both are the same. Any chance that your phone was in some kind of low-power mode? Can you try doing a workout while having the phone nearby and seeing whether it keeps recording?

Anyway, since you're only recording the duration and nothing else (no HR, no gps etc), maybe you could simply manually add activities instead of “recording”. In the iPhone app, go to the You tab, then in top right click the "➕” icon, tap “Manual activity”, add the stats, and save. That will give you the desired result without having to deal with the recording bug.

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    You must have been planking, that would explain the slowing of time… 🙈

    Ok, seriously now 🙂

    I’m not sure what's happening, but it looks like the app stops measuring at some point. First I thought it's the moving time vs. elapsed time difference, but when I looked at your activities via the Strava website, it seems that both are the same. Any chance that your phone was in some kind of low-power mode? Can you try doing a workout while having the phone nearby and seeing whether it keeps recording?

    Anyway, since you're only recording the duration and nothing else (no HR, no gps etc), maybe you could simply manually add activities instead of “recording”. In the iPhone app, go to the You tab, then in top right click the "➕” icon, tap “Manual activity”, add the stats, and save. That will give you the desired result without having to deal with the recording bug.

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    • February 6, 2025

    tysm for answering me so fast! 

    I’m not allowed to have my phone in the room w me (too many people take selfies in the middle of class i guess) so I’ve always kept in a locker. I don’t think it was on low battery mode either. But thanks for the manual suggestion! I didn’t even know about that :) 

    I’m going to try and connect my apple watch w strava to see if that helps too.

    Thanks!

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    Oh if you have Apple Watch, why don't you record with that 😀 that's much more reliable than an app on the phone - and with way more data! 👍

    Just a note - use the Apple “workout” app on the watch (icon with a yellow-ish runner), and sync it to Strava afterwards. There's also a Strava app for the watch available but recently, people have been reporting a bug in it, actually similar to what you see on the iPhone (it stops recording early); but the native Apple workout app is definitely okay and syncing to Strava is easy - that's how I track all my activities. Here's how to set it up (you will want to sync from Health to Strava): https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216917527-Health-App-and-Strava

     

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