But for the vast majority of people (including myself), Strava actually represents two things at its core these days:Ī) Social sharing platform for fitness people/activitiesī) The singular platform that *every* health/fitness company integrates with Sure, those are important to a group of people (as are other features like routes and analysis). To back up slightly, and explain what people are upset about, you need to start with the realization and premise that Strava stopped being about ‘Segments’ years ago. So it impacted everyone, instantly.īut this change broke more than just ring-counting diehards, but also many other 3rd party apps that leverage Apple Health as a repository and exchange point for health/fitness data (which, was kinda the goal of Apple Health). Further, Strava’s change was made by a backend server toggle, as such, it wasn’t tied to any specific Strava app update on your phone. Those remain functional and update Apple Health. Note that this does not impact those that record a workout directly within the Strava app, or from their Apple Watch itself. This has also broken health insurance fitness points programs that utilize Apple Health as a repository for data, by which users often use Strava to populate that data. And with that, killing off many people’s ability to ‘ complete their rings’ on Apple Health, especially Apple Watch users that primarily used other devices for sport/fitness for their workouts. Zwift, Garmin, TrainerRoad, etc…) synced to Strava, and insert them into Apple Health – that capability was abruptly killed off late last week.
But for Apple users who have (for years) used Strava’s ability to take 3rd party workouts (e.g. Instead, you can go look at old travel posts here for entertainment.
If you’re an Android user, then this post probably won’t mean much to you. It’s been a few years since Strava has managed to irk the Internet, but over the last few days, they’ve unleashed a torrent of upset Apple users.
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