Changelog

Updates land here as new versions ship. Newest at the top.

1.0 — September 4, 2026

The first App Store release. Everything below is in it. During the beta these arrived as a series of TestFlight builds; that history is kept here because testers asked for it.

Late additions

• Structured-workout step targets speak up — straying outside a step’s target now speaks the cue and shows a banner (“Heart rate high”) instead of a bare haptic. Warmup, recovery, and cooldown steps stay quiet, so a heart rate still decaying after an interval doesn’t set anything off.
• Summary cards tap through instead of scrubbing — on the phone, the small summary charts now open their detail page on a tap. Scrubbing lives on the detail page, where there’s room for it.
• Rebuilt beacon web viewer — the shared live map moved to a newer map renderer.

The August build

• Active Metrics Pro — the app is now free to record with, and a subscription unlocks the rest. Recording workouts, data screens, alerts, sensors, splits, and workout review are free forever. Pro adds trends and training status, readiness and coaching, full post-workout insights, routes, live sharing, and the Trail map style with offline tiles. See the FAQ for pricing.
• Routing moved onto your device — generating and snapping routes no longer talks to a server at all. You download a routing region once (Settings → Routing Regions on the watch, or the Plan tab on the phone) and everything after that runs on the watch itself, including generating a loop with no signal at all. Generated loops also stopped staircasing through grid streets and now look like routes a person would pick.
• Export to GPX or TCX — the share button on a workout review writes a file you can hand to Strava, Garmin Connect, or anything else that reads them.
• Training Status — a single verdict for the last four weeks on the Progress tab: Productive, Maintaining, Strained, Unproductive, Recovering, or Detraining, with the metrics that drove it. See Analytics & Training Load.
• One headline insight — post-workout insights now lead with the single most actionable observation instead of a wall of cards.
• Distance Remaining and Route ETA — two new data fields for the grid when you’re following a route.
• The watch app looks like watchOS — a pass over the whole watch UI to use native patterns, plus decluttered focus-page headers, summary metrics two-up, and headers pinned to one spot so numbers stop jumping between pages.
• Route navigation fixes — guidance now survives an off-route excursion instead of giving up, and the end-of-workout flow was reworked. Eight field-reported navigation issues fixed.
• Elevation is written to Apple Health — which is what the hill adaptation score reads, so it finally has data to work with.
• Offline map downloads survive a kill — a download orphaned by the app being killed picks itself back up, and you can delete regions from the watch.
• Fixes — effort ratings save reliably and the summary keeps scrolling, waterways draw as lines instead of filled blobs, the Now Playing canvas covers the Ultra 3’s full display, and a pre-release sweep fixed 170 verified issues across the app.

Earlier in the beta

• Beacon live sharing — share a live map link during a run. This build fixes the shared map freezing mid-run, adds street labels, and stops privacy zones from swallowing short routes.
• Voice announcements — the watch now speaks pace, splits, and zone alerts, with new start and lap cues and a dedicated voice settings page.
• Route generation now covers the US — and the route builder opens centered on you instead of a default city.
• Today tab redesign — Readiness and Energy as a dual ring, a recovery countdown for your next hard session, and a tap-through breakdown of why your scores are what they are.
• iPhone widgets — home and lock-screen widgets for today’s readiness and recovery.
• Adaptation scores — new 0–100 scores for heat, cold, endurance, and hill acclimation on the Progress tab.
• Progress charts are scrubbable — drag across any chart to inspect a day, with an optional linked cursor that pins every chart to the same date.
• Live pace on walks and hikes — not just runs.
• Fixes — a stuck workout session that froze the timer and blocked restarts, the HealthKit permission prompt reappearing on every new build, a false “GPS OK” icon when signal was actually degraded, and a rough first-launch experience for new accounts.