I was trying to add a complication to my watch that would speak the number of steps walked but couldn't find anything to add from the Health app.
Is it possible to add a complication to the Apple Watch that will show the number of steps walked, number of flights climbed, etc.?
Thanks.
--Pete
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Complication
Hi, I use the Pedometer++ app, that has a complication you can add to the watch face to show number of steps.
Another vote for Pedometer++
It's quite good - I have a complication with number of steps plus distance travelled. I think the app has loads of features but that's all I use it for and it doesn't cost me anything.
The only thing I've found is that it seems to be a tad slow to update. So sometimes it seems low then I do nothing and look back and it's rocketed up. But otherwise it's a good solution.
Re: Thanks - Perfect solution
Thanks for the tip on using the Pedometer++ app to enable me to put a complication on the Apple Watch to show steps and distance. Perfect solution! I'm surprised that Apple doesn't enable this natively, but apparently it doesn't.
As far as being slow to update, I think even the stats inside the Apple Health app for showing steps and distance only updates in chunks once in a while, so this may not be the app's fault.
Anyway, thanks.
--Pete
Re: speed of update
Yes I wouldn't be at all surprised it it was a limitation of the watch. I think the normal activity ring data updates nearly instantly - sometimes it lags a tiny bit but not as much as the step count in my limited experience. Still it's a nice complication. As you said it is weird that it isn't in the watch already considering you can find it if you look hard enough. I've not compared to see if Pedometer++ shows the same steps as I can never remember where Apple hides it.
Where Apple hides the step count
I find the step and distance count in the Apple Health app, in the Summary tab, in the list of stats where it says "steps".
Hope that helps. I haven't compared the Pedometer++ steps with the Apple steps either, but believe that they sync.
--Pete
Syncing or not
I just checked what the Pedimoter++ app said on my phone versus in the Apple Health app.
On the watch it said about 900 steps.
On my iPhone in the Health app it said about 1200 steps
After I tapped on the step count on my watch, it updated to 1,800 steps.
Then I went back to my iPhone and the step count had changed to 1,400 steps.
So I have no idea how often these sync, but it seems that the Health app and Pedometer++ can be out of sync.
--Pete
@--Pete
Thanks, that's interesting. Not sure why they aren't the same. But I suppose if they are close enough that's probably alright. I don't think any of these things are perfect.