If you use an Apple Watch, chances are that it’s more than just keeping up with your iPhone’s notifications. One of the key highlights of using an Apple watch is tracking one’s fitness.
From the heart rate to the steps, there are several aspects to using the Apple Watch. But, as a new user, being confused about how to work out these steps is normal.
This article will walk you through all the different ways you can check the steps on your Apple Watch to keep track of your fitness journey.
Using Activity App
The easiest and most commonly used route to check the daily steps on your Apple Watch is using the Activity App.
Here’s what you need to do:
- Press on the digital crown on the Apple Watch. This will open the app screen.
- Next, select the Activity app.
- There are different activity circles. You have to navigate down to the “Total Steps” option. This is where you can track your daily steps.
What you can do is come back each day to check the steps from the Activity app to see if your fitness is on track.
Using Watch Face
If you don’t want so much hassle and want a more simplified way to view the total step count on an Apple watch, follow the steps mentioned:
- Open the Activity app directly from the watch face.
- Scroll until you find “Total steps”
You can check the number of steps you have walked in a day from there and keep up with the count each day.
Using Fitness app on iPhone
The Apple Fitness app, which you have installed on your iPhone syncs the data from your Apple watch, which means that you can use that to track the number of steps you are walking each day.
Here’s what to do:
- Open the Apple Fitness app on your iPhone.
- On the main feed, you should find the daily step count.
This is also where you will find all the other relevant fitness data and metrics.
Using the Apple Health app on iPhone
Much like the Apple Fitness app, even the Apple Health app on your iPhone can help you track the number of steps you have walked in a day.
For this, you need to follow the steps mentioned:
- Download and open the Health app on your iPhone.
- Navigate to “Favorites”
- You will find “Steps” under that.
- If you can’t find it, click on “Show all Health Data” and find the step count from there.
It is a slightly more complicated approach but a viable one nonetheless.
Weekly steps
Sometimes, tracking your fitness is done every week. If that’s the case with you and you wish to track your daily steps based on a weekly basis, here’s what you need to do:
- Open the Activity app on the Apple watch.
- Navigate to the bottom where you will find “Weekly Summary”
- Scroll down until you find the total step count for the week
This is a great way to keep a cumulative track of your weekly steps and the fitness journey that you are on.
Previous day’s step count
Did you forget to check in on your last day’s step count? Well, Apple reserves all the daily fitness data for you, which means that you can easily go back and find the last day’s data from there.
Here’s what you need to do:
- Open the Apple Fitness app on your iPhone.
- Tap on the Activity area or you can directly tap on the Steps too.
- Swipe right or you can select the specific day whose step count you wish to check.
- Once you select the day, scroll down until you find the total step count for that day.
You can follow the same steps on the Apple Health app too to check the step count from a particular day.
Conclusion
Keeping track of your step count on your Apple Watch isn’t as complicated as you make it out to be. If you are new to using this device, we hope these tips help you stay on track with your fitness goals by keeping a check on the step count each day. How many of these tricks were you aware of?