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

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Onboarding

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

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HealthKit Permissions

HealthKit permissions dialog
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.