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The Steps Apple Watch app gives you quick access to your daily steps, weekly trends, and workout history right on your wrist.

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Watch Views

Apple Watch Today view

Steps on Apple Watch showing daily step count and progress

The app is organized into vertical pages you swipe through:

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Today

Your main view showing:
  • Current step count
  • Distance walked
  • Calories burned
  • Goal progress bar (color changes when goal is met)
  • Current day and date

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Week

Weekly step overview with:
  • Total or average steps (toggleable)
  • 7-day bar chart
  • Dashed goal line for reference

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Month

Monthly step data with a summary of your activity for the current month.

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Workouts

A list of your recent workouts showing:
  • Workout type and name
  • Duration
  • Date
Tap any workout to see more details.

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Workouts on Apple Watch

Apple Watch workout metrics

An active workout on Apple Watch with live metrics, including steps

You can start and track a workout right from your wrist — no iPhone needed.

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Starting a Workout

  1. Open Steps on your Apple Watch and tap Start Workout
  2. Choose a workout type. The same types you can start on iPhone are available here, including outdoor and indoor walk, run, and cycle, plus hike, strength training, mixed cardio, soccer, elliptical, HIIT, jump rope, and yoga.
  3. A 3-second countdown runs before tracking begins. You can cancel it before the workout starts.
Your watch keeps tracking even if your iPhone isn’t nearby.

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Live Metrics

During a workout, your watch shows a live grid:
  • Duration
  • Heart Rate (bpm), colored by your live heart rate zone
  • Distance and Calories, when the workout type records them
  • Pace — or Speed for cycling
  • Steps, updating as you move, for workouts that produce a step count
The workout summary on the watch includes the step count too. You can pick a custom route color before you start.

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GPS Route

Outdoor workouts record your route with GPS so you can review the path you took afterward in the Activity Detail view.

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Mirroring to iPhone

When your iPhone is nearby, an active watch workout mirrors to your phone in real time — live metrics update on the phone as you move. If your iPhone is out of range, the watch records the complete workout on its own and syncs it once you’re reconnected.

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Complications

Watch complications

Watch face with Steps complications showing step count and streak

Add Steps data to your watch face. Complication colors follow your color theme.

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Adding Complications

  1. Long-press your watch face
  2. Tap Edit
  3. Swipe to the complication slots
  4. Select a slot and choose a Steps complication
  5. Press the Digital Crown to save