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The Home Dashboard is your main view in Steps, showing your step count, activity metrics, progress toward your daily goal, and step charts.
Home Dashboard overview

Home Dashboard with step count card, progress ring, and hourly chart

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Step Count Card

The main card displays your current activity:
  • Step Count - Your total steps for the selected period
  • Distance - Walking and running distance in km or miles
  • Calories - Active energy burned
  • Flights Climbed - Floors climbed (daily view only)
A progress ring surrounds the card, filling up as you approach your daily goal. The ring color changes to your “completed” theme color once you hit your goal.

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Streak Badge

Your current streak count appears in the top-left corner with a flame icon. Tap it to view your full streak details, heatmap, and badge progress.

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Stepboard

Tap the trophy emoji (🏆) near the top of the Home Dashboard to open the Stepboard — the daily leaderboard where you compete with the wider Steps community or your private groups. From the Stepboard you can also reach World Stats for community-wide totals and your global rank.

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Rest Day

Tap the 🧘 button in the top-right corner to mark today as a rest day, and tap again to remove it. Rest days pause your streak without breaking it. The button stays dimmed until the current day is marked as a rest day.

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Motivational Messages

You can choose what appears below your step count in Settings > Home insight:
  • Message - A motivational quote or encouragement
  • Average - How your steps compare to your daily average
  • Yearly Goal - Your progress toward your yearly step goal
  • Off - Show nothing extra
Tap the insight below your step count to quickly cycle through these modes without opening Settings.
When Average is selected, Settings > Average baseline chooses which days that comparison uses:
  • Last 30 days
  • Last 3 months
  • This year
  • Last year
  • All time

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Home Layout

On iOS 26 and later, Settings > Home layout chooses how Home is arranged: On an unfolded iPhone Duo, Home sits beside a History calendar. That calendar can show a week or a month, and each month in Activity keeps a sticky summary while the workout cards scroll.

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Charts

Home Dashboard step chart

Hourly step chart on the Home Dashboard

Step charts appear below the main card based on your selected view mode:
Weekly and Monthly views are Pro features. You can switch between views in Settings > View steps by.
The range control sits above the chart. On the Day timeframe you can still show a week or a month of bars. Those wider ranges are Pro. Tap a bar to jump to that day, and tap the same bar again to return to today. Tap the chart background to open the range picker. In weekly and monthly views, you can toggle between Total and Average steps using the button in the top-right corner. Hitting your daily goal plays a full-screen burst of rainbow ribbons. See Daily Goal.

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Date Navigation

Swipe left or right on the step card to navigate between days, weeks, or months. A horizontal scrollable calendar strip at the bottom lets you jump to any date quickly.

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Weather

When enabled in Settings, the current temperature and humidity display in the top toolbar. Toggle this in Settings > Show weather.

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Refresh

Tap the refresh button in the top-right corner to manually sync your latest step data from Apple Health.

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Share Your Steps

Tap the share button in the top toolbar to post your step count as an image. You can pick a clean photo card with your top stats, or a transparent step count to drop onto your own background. See Sharing for the full set of options.