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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

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

Join the Stepboard

Sign in with Apple and join the daily leaderboard, or skip it and join later from Home. If you already have an account, the button matches that: Join Stepboard when you’re signed in, Continue when you’re already a member.
4

Start Walking

That’s it! Steps begins tracking automatically using your iPhone’s motion sensors and Apple Health data.
Along the way, Steps asks a few quick questions to personalize your experience, invites you to turn on notifications, and introduces features like Stepboard and App Lock. The Stepboard step tells you how many walkers share your country when that number is available. You can skip any of these and set them up later in Settings.

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HealthKit Permissions

HealthKit permissions dialog

Apple Health permissions request

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, including your heart rate zones
  • Workout Routes - GPS routes for your recorded workouts
  • Workout Effort - The 1–10 rating you set on a workout
Rating effort writes that score back to Apple Health, and deleting a workout removes it from Apple Health. Everything else Steps shows is read from the health data already on your device.

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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.