Steps makes it easy to start tracking your daily steps, workouts, and fitness goals right from your iPhone.

Onboarding

When you first open Steps, you’ll go through a quick setup to personalize your experience:

Steps onboarding flow

1. Set Your Daily Goal
   Choose a step goal between 1,000 and 20,000 steps using the scroll picker. You can always change this later in Settings.

2. Grant Health Permissions
   Steps requests access to Apple Health to read your step count, distance, calories, flights climbed, and workout data. Tap Allow All for the best experience.

3. Start Walking
   That’s it! Steps begins tracking automatically using your iPhone’s motion sensors and Apple Health data.

HealthKit Permissions

Steps reads the following data from Apple Health:

• Steps - Your daily step count
• Walking + Running Distance - Distance covered on foot
• Active Energy Burned - Calories burned through activity
• Flights Climbed - Floors you’ve climbed
• Heart Rate - Used during workouts
• Workout Routes - GPS routes for your recorded workouts

Steps never writes to or modifies your Apple Health data. It only reads your existing activity information.

Privacy

Your health data stays on your device. Steps does not upload your fitness data to any server. All processing happens locally on your iPhone.

Re-syncing Health Data

If your step count looks incorrect or data appears missing, you can re-sync from Apple Health:

1. Open Settings in Steps
2. Scroll to the Support section
3. Tap Re-sync Apple Health data

This refreshes all your activity data from Apple Health.

Restart Onboarding

To go through the setup flow again:

1. Open Settings in Steps
2. Tap Restart Onboarding
3. Confirm when prompted

This lets you reconfigure your daily goal and permissions.