Lap races, a new way to start and Flitz MEET FLITZ • Rivea has a new icon on iPhone and Apple Watch: Flitz with the teal headband. The first time you open Rivea each day, he sprints off. With Reduce Motion on, he stays put. • After your run, Flitz, Hilde and Iggy celebrate with you, and Hilde speaks up when you set a new best time. RUNNING • The new way to start is here for everyone: "Next run" on Home shows what's coming up, "Plan a run" sets one up in a few taps, and "Run now" starts right away. • Set how often you want to run each week. Miss a week and the joker keeps your streak. • Photos, videos and voice notes from your run arrive more reliably, even when the network drops for a moment. RACES • The race room shows your preparation as a list and, from 6 hours before the start, "Ready to start": Apple Watch, chest strap and battery at a glance. • "How your race day works" walks you through what to do before the gun. • You can still change your start time, wave, bib number and goal time later. Tap your bib in the race room. • Lap races show the lap, for example "Lap 4.66 km", and instead of a goal time you can set a target pace. • After the race, add your official time from the results list. APPLE WATCH • On race day your watch shows your race and its start time; "Start race" appears 6 hours before the start. • If the watch stalls mid-run, your iPhone fills the gap with GPS, so no distance goes missing. • Reactions from your supporters fill the watch screen again, and pace and heart rate stay readable. ALSO • After you sign in, notifications arrive quietly at first. • When you delete something or something fails, your iPhone lets you feel it. • When you change who can see your page, it now applies to your planned runs and races too.

Start your watch run from the iPhone – and see whether your watch records BEFORE YOUR RUN • If your run is set to the watch and Rivea is installed on it, "Start from Watch" at the bottom of your iPhone is now a button. After "Yes", your iPhone asks the watch to start. • If the watch shows its clock face, your iPhone tries to wake Rivea there. • Until your watch records, your iPhone shows "Waiting for your watch …" – at most 20 seconds. If the watch needs your tap, your iPhone says: raise your wrist and tap the notification. • If the watch doesn't start, your iPhone tells you why. You choose "Open watch app", "Start with the iPhone" or "Cancel". • If you then start with the iPhone, the run screen says so. APPLE WATCH • "Start" and "Start race" stay pinned at the bottom – on every watch size, no scrolling. • A late start on the watch no longer ends a run your iPhone is already recording.

A tidier start screen, your full plan video, and an easier "End" on the watch BEFORE YOUR RUN • The top shows only what you need to start: when, who is watching, device and heart rate. Plan, moments, emails and challenge for your spectators sit folded below. • Plan video: everything you say in your video ends up as text in your plan – not just the last sentence. • Runs set to "Nur für dich" (only you) are seen by you alone. They appear on no page, in no link preview and in no calendar. • Delete a planned run and your page stays as visible as you set it in your profile. DURING YOUR RUN A tap on "Video" opens the camera straight away. To pick a video from your library, press and hold "Video". APPLE WATCH • "End" has a larger touch area – it reaches down to the bottom edge. • After a brief moment the watch taps: from then on your hold counts, and after one second the run ends. • If your finger slides a little while holding, the hold keeps going. • A short tap ends nothing – the watch shows "Halten zum Beenden" (hold to end).

Four steps after every run – and a new watch app AFTER YOUR RUN After STOP, a finish screen of its own shows your distance, time and pace, a small map of your route and – when it fits – a seal such as "Personal best". Four steps show where your run stands: planned, run, feedback, result. Your answer to "How hard was it?" now sends itself. Your coach waits up to two hours for it. APPLE WATCH • Before the run, the watch tells you what is missing. Without your iPhone you can still start – saved to Health only. • Calm values in paper white; colour belongs to heart rate and zones. Lower your wrist and the display dims. • "End" now takes a one-second hold. In a pause, one tap resumes the run. • Start, pause, resume and end on the watch each have their own tap on your wrist – as do spectators and warnings. • On race day the second start is called "Warm up". Five minutes before the gun, the watch asks whether you are done warming up. • After the run you get a summary. VoiceOver reads values with their units. PHOTOS AND VIDEOS During a run you film with the ultra wide camera (0.5×) and can show your pace and distance in the video – also in the copy saved to your photo library. Anything that could not be sent during the run waits in the run's "Erinnerung" tab with "Send again". ALSO At the largest text sizes, no value breaks in the middle of a word any more. With "Start & Ziel verbergen" (hide start and finish) on, a THANKS sent from your watch near the start no longer shows a point on the map.

Runs that hold up without signal – and much faster uploads No signal? You can still plan a workout or race, and your run carries on: route, splits and zones arrive in full once you're back online, and your page goes live and closes at the finish reliably – even if you swipe the app away right after STOP. Photos, videos and voice notes are saved on your iPhone first and upload as soon as you have signal – photos and voice notes never wait behind a large video. Videos you film during a run are smaller and give your live page priority. Uploads are several times faster: a 30-second video is now about 12 instead of 40 MB, new videos play in every browser, and portrait thumbnails are no longer squashed. Open the app between 30 minutes before and 90 minutes after the gun, and your watch shows "Start race" with your race's name; "Start run" below it is for a warm-up your spectators don't see. A run you end on the watch now stays ended. Share your run podcast as a link that plays in any browser, and revoke it whenever you like. The home screen lists upcoming races you can sign up for, the weekly load card says plainly whether you are above or below your usual load, and a race keeps its local start time even when you plan it from another time zone. Your mail settings no longer jump back after a change on another device.

Race picker fixed – and visibility changes apply at once Picking a race takes the real start time again, for example 09:15 in Berlin instead of always 09:00. Races that have a course no longer say "No course", and the distance reads "Marathon" or "Half marathon" again. Change your visibility mid-run and your page reflects it right away, not only from your next run. With a watch, the app saves your run more sparingly, every 5 seconds, and no longer counts a watch packet twice. Below your run podcast you now see just your answers.

You decide who watches – and start videos with a button New: "Followers only". Your page is then visible only to people you have approved, and you can switch it even mid-run. Visibility lives in one place, your heart rate is reserved for your followers, and new races start with your setting instead of public. Planning and getting ready are quicker: one form for every workout, a prepare room on a single page with "Start run" at the bottom. After "Yes", iOS only asks for your location. During a run, PAUSE, RESUME and STOP always sit at the bottom, and the splits show the last three kilometres. Start and stop videos with a volume button or Camera Control – or with the Action button once you assign it "Start/stop recording". With a chest strap, your watch shows its heart rate too, and current pace stays visible – with or without the watch. After the run, your route comes first. The coach only says what your data supports: minutes easy, moderate and hard. Also: the app starts faster, VoiceOver reads every value during a run, and German is used throughout, on the watch and lock screen too. Tidied up: "Athlete Hub", "Exercises" and "Training plans" have been removed. Fixed: heart rate zones show five colours again, as on the watch, photos and videos from your library are no longer lost, your profile no longer jumps back, and a finished run no longer shows as live – even without signal at the finish.

Your plan video, upright again The camera preview and the recording in "What's the plan" came out rotated on some iPhones. The app now takes the correct angle for each camera from the system.

Update reminder on the home screen When a newer version is in the App Store, the home screen shows a card with "Load". Analytics without Google Under the hood: Updated Firebase and image libraries with crash and stability fixes.

Photo chooser in the clip editor works again everywhere "Anderes Foto", "Mit Foto", "Mediathek" and "Anderer Lauf" opened and closed at once whenever the editor came from the inbox, the Quick Check, the home screen or a notification. The chooser now lives inside the editor and stays open. No Quick Check after an accidental start Under 500 m Rivea no longer asks for your effort and coach feedback. The coach skips runs that short anyway. Readable dialogs during a run "Video aufnehmen / Aus Mediathek wählen" and the other system dialogs are dark during a run, matching the rest of the screen.

You decide which mails your followers get A new card in your profile: "Ergebnis-Mail" sends your followers distance and time once you finish a run. "Live-Start" decides whether every run, only races and challenges, or nothing at all triggers a start mail. Change nothing and everything stays as it was. Originals in your photo library Photos and videos you capture in Rivea are now also kept in your library at full quality. Your page still gets the compressed version. You can turn it off in your profile. Recordings no longer get lost Lock the iPhone or take a call, and the video is saved instead of discarded. The same goes for voice notes during a run. Resume a run instead of splitting it If the app is killed mid-run, Rivea asks on the next launch whether you want to keep running or wrap up. Distance and time are kept. Official time for challenges too A race Rivea does not have in its calendar can be logged as a challenge, and you can enter the time from the results list afterwards. It leads the run detail and counts towards your personal best. Also: the clip editor stays usable while you switch photo or style, invite links match the website again, and cadence at the end of a run no longer reads 0.

Prepare in three tabs The prepare screen is now cut by the moment you need it: Setup for the rules, Prepare for the hours and days before the run, Start for the last ten minutes. Recording and heart-rate source sit right next to the start button. Your plan is back A sentence or two about today's run, shown on your page under the card and read by your coach after the run. Speak it, type it, or record a short video with the front camera — the spoken words land in the text field for you to check before you save. One plan video per run; your page shows it as the newest moment. Lock Screen for Watch starts Start the run on your Apple Watch with the iPhone in your pocket, and the Lock Screen shows the run from the first time you unlock the phone. Also: cleaner wording on the prepare screen, a link to your own page, and after a training run your page returns to the parked race with its countdown.

Plan a race and a training run side by side The Run tab now holds both at once: a race from the calendar and a training run for today or tomorrow. They sit as two cards, the nearer one on top. A training run takes three taps, distance included. Pick your race from a search list Setting up a race day opens a searchable list — by name or city, sorted into Recent, This week, This month and Later. Picking one fills in name, date, start time and the real race distance. Your official time counts After a race, enter your official time from the results list. It becomes the run's main time and counts towards your personal best, while the watch time stays alongside it. Also: link a run to a series edition, show yourself on the shared race map on race day, races are scored as races by your coach, and your channel now shows followers. Behind the scenes: coach feedback fails less often, and a weak GPS start no longer draws a stray line across your route map.

Quick Check after your run Tap how hard it felt, and your coach pulls one more question from your data within seconds — the card waits briefly for it instead of closing too early. A line tells you how long your coach still waits for your answer. And swiping the card away now counts as an answer instead of losing it. When there is no feedback, we say so If the analysis fails, or the run was too short to analyse, the app tells you — instead of "your coach is analysing" forever. Your effort still counts towards your training load. Take the photo right in the clip editor When "one more photo, while you are still there" arrives, you can now shoot it without leaving the editor. Also: runs whose server statistics are not ready yet still get coach feedback.

Your followers, in one place A new Follower Center in your profile: confirm or decline requests, see who follows you, invite people with your link, and check what followers can see. Requests open again from your inbox, too. Hide start and finish A switch on each run hides the first and last 200 meters of your route from everyone else — live on your page and afterwards in your history. Set it before the start or flip it later on the run. It replaces the privacy zones on the map. Run videos, sharper Pick a photo you just took for your clip right after the run, even while it is still uploading. The avatar style now always uses the photo you chose. And in photo mode you can zoom and move the picture. Also: your run type (Easy, Long run, Tempo, Intervals) is finally saved the way you set it, and there is a newsletter opt-in in your profile — off by default.

Small release, smoother everyday Tap the "Last run" card on your training home and the run opens — full detail, media and coach insights included. "What's new" now really is new: it only appears when there is something fresh for your version, swiping it away counts as read, and its entries come straight from each release.

Your avatar, the way you want it The cut-out avatar now fills the card by default instead of sitting in a corner — sized to your photo automatically. Move it anywhere, and set its size with the buttons or two fingers. Position and size are remembered per run. Monotony, at a glance The training load card now shows how varied your week was as a band — varied, usual, flat — instead of a bare number. The separate strain tile is gone: it was just weekly load times monotony, two numbers already on the card. Fixes Dragging your photo into place no longer jumps to a different photo. And a run you set to "only me" now disappears from your public archive and link previews too, not just from its own page.

Run setup: now two tabs Setup holds everything you configure — visibility, challenge, time window, tracking, heart rate. Start holds what you share with your followers, plus the start button. The challenge gets its own window Goal distance on a slider, start on a date and time wheel. Nothing on this screen is typed any more. Your map is back in Apple Health The route your iPhone records during watch runs is attached to the workout again. In three situations it used to be dropped without a word. Also: km laps in Apple Fitness are now marked as beta.

This update makes run tracking a lot more resilient: • If the watch stops responding mid-run, your iPhone now takes over tracking and lets you know — runs no longer end silently or lose their second half. • A run that ended but never made it into Apple Health is rescued the next time you open the watch app, and you're notified right away if a workout wasn't saved. • Restarting after a crash starts a clean new session — the interrupted attempt is kept as its own run. • Dictating your training note now keeps every sentence, even when you pause between them. • New in session settings: kilometre laps for Apple Fitness (off by default for now). • Heart rate, coach insights and your pre-run note on your public runner page are now visible to approved followers only by default. Sharing settings let you open them up any time.

Effort now reaches Apple Health Your rating from the post-run check-in is now written to the workout as Effort and shows up in the Fitness app right on the run. It still arrives even when a watch-recorded workout takes minutes to reach your iPhone. Skip the check-in and the field stays empty. Per-kilometre laps in the Fitness app Runs now show a lap table with distance, time and pace for every kilometre. Pauses are handled properly: stop at a traffic light and the kilometre is split right there, instead of one meaningless 17-minute kilometre. Brief stops under 20 seconds stay part of the running stretch. GPS routes on Apple Watch runs Runs recorded on the Watch were missing their map in the Fitness app. The route is now attached reliably. Older runs cannot be repaired after the fact — their GPS points remain fully intact inside Rivea. Cleaner tracks, no stray points Stray GPS fixes that shoot off the route and snap back are now filtered out. This was never just a cosmetic problem: the recorded distance was affected too, and is now more accurate. Post-run check-in after races Races were missing the check-in on the finish screen. Now every run gets one. Kilometre marks survive interruptions If watchOS suspended the app mid-run, every kilometre mark set until then was lost. That no longer happens. Also fixed: the German wording of the Health permission prompts.

Neu: - Rebranding Marathon Guide -> Rivea Run - Überarbeitete Apple Watch Oberfläche

New: - Nutrition tips Fixes: - Filtering improved in the Knowledge library

New: - Send back reactions from the Apple Watch - Knowledge database

Features: - Coach feedback - Session history Bug Fix: - Auto-Pause - Stop der Session

Bugfix: - Fix sync bug in Apple Watch