Your streak, on ice! Streak freezes are here. - Streak freezes: miss a day and your streak lives on. The morning after, Today offers a freeze above the ring: one tap and the day turns to ice, keeping your streak going without counting the day. - A few days off? Covered. Ill, or away from your phone for days? Use a freeze for each and the whole run is saved at once. - Earned as you go: one freeze for every 10 days you reach your goal, plus one to start, and you can hold up to 5. Tap the flame on Today to see yours. - Bug fixes and improvements: last month's medals stay put, and the crowning waits for you if you leave mid-show.

Long live the champion! A royal crowning to end every month, the whole week in your League table, and a medal cabinet for every league. - The crowning: at the end of every month the Steps Kingdom crowns each league's champion. A herald rides in with the news, trumpets sound on the last two days, and from the 1st the King hands out bronze, silver and the crown. Your medals stay on your profile for good. - The whole week in your League table: a weekly league's League table opens on this week, with each day's winner, who leads on points, and how today would end if it ended now. - A medal cabinet for every league: gold, silver and bronze for every finished week, month and season, with a medal table and the podiums to look back on. - A fresh look for What's New. - Bug fixes and performance improvements all through the app.

A little Halloween show, a closer look at every day, and more to open in your leagues. - Pull to refresh puts on a show: pull down on your Friends board and someone drops in, the witch and Midnight, her spell, a ghost with a BOO!, or a web-slinger, who swings by on Home too. Through Halloween. - Tap a day, see how it finished: in the Hall of fame and every League table, tap a day in Last 7 days to see who won it, by how much, and everyone's steps and points. Swipe to the day before or after. - More to open in your leagues: tap anyone in a league's Winners card to open that week's table, and friends who are travelling show their flag in your leagues too. - When Halloween ends, the cast comes on stage to say goodbye. Miss them? The Halloween look stays in Settings, ready to switch back on anytime. - Tell us what's up: Settings › About › Send feedback writes to us from your mail app, with what we need to look into it. - Bug fixes and performance improvements all through the app.

Your friends' best days ever, and YourMoves made for iPhone Duo. - Best days ever: a new Best tab on your Friends board and in every league puts everyone on the podium by their best day ever, with the board's top days below. - Made for iPhone Duo: open it and every screen gets a page on each side, the podium on one and the board on the other, with nothing on the fold. - On iPad, short screens like Daily goal and Settings stay in one tidy column. - Fixes and polish.

Say what you're up to, add a few words to a nudge, and make friends in your leagues. - Thoughts: tap your own face on the Friends board to share what you're up to, like “Lunch walk at 1?”. It floats over your face for a day, for all your friends or for one league. - A few words with a nudge: long-press a friend and pick Message to send a nudge or a cheer with words of your own. - Make friends in your leagues: long-press someone in a league to add them as a friend. In a league you made, you can also take someone out, and a long-press on a league at the top puts your leagues in your order. - Tap someone in a league to see their last seven days and their podium days, and add them as a friend. - Who won last week: last week's winner wears a laurel all week, and the League table lists every week since your league began. League boards now say when each person's steps last arrived. - Fixes, among them records that are noticed again while the app is in the background.

Walk together in leagues, and count pushes in Wheelchair mode. - Leagues: walk with up to 100 people, for the office, the family or the Sunday walkers. Join one with a code or a link, or get added by a friend. Each day's leaders score points, and every league has its own boards, Past results and Hall of fame. Joining is free. With YourMoves+, make your own and run it by the week, the month or to a finish line you pick. - Wheelchair mode: use a wheelchair? Your Moves can count pushes from Apple Watch instead of steps. Your ring turns into a wheel, and your goal, streaks, records and journeys follow your pushes. Settings › Wheelchair. - Friends' clubs: see which step club each friend is in this month, and who's on pace to move up. - Home, your way: tap Customize Home at the bottom of Home to reorder its cards and hide the ones you don't need. - Share your climb: tap Floors, then share today's floors, this week's staircase or your year up a mountain. - In the Halloween look, the witch and Midnight celebrate your goal with a victory lap, a flight across the moon and fireworks, and the whole cast keeps moving smoothly while you scroll. - Fixes, among them Apple Watch steps that cross midnight, and hour charts that let you scrub past the end of the day.

Spooky season is here. - From 17 October to 1 November the app dresses up: a witch on her broomstick rides your progress ring with her cat, an owl watches from the tree, a ghost and a zombie wait at the end of Today, and bats burst out when you reach your goal. - Two haunted walks: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Dracula's Road from Brașov to Bran Castle, with the true stories behind the legends. - Your Friends board becomes a graveyard podium, and the top three race in costume. - On Apple Watch, the witch flies along the Steps Bar complication. - A Halloween app icon: our footprints as two little ghosts, one switch away in Settings. - While the look is on, the app goes dark to match. Prefer light? Pick Light under Settings › Appearance. - Tap Floors on Today to see your climb: this week past famous buildings, this year against mountains. - New on Insights: your walking speed over the last 30 days, and your brisk minutes against the 150 a week health guidelines suggest. - Your record medals swing when you move your phone. - Friends: yesterday's results say "so far" while friends in other time zones are still walking. - Not your thing? Settings › Halloween turns it off. Or on early.

Crown a champion, then share the board. - Hall of fame: finish a day in the top three on your Friends board for 3, 2 or 1 points. Every month and every year crowns its champion, and yesterday's winner wears a gold badge. - Share today's podium, your week or any past month as a picture, in six designs. - Share your records: your earliest goal, your best Tuesday or your longest streak, and how far you beat your old best. - Walking abroad? Your friends can see which country you're in, with its flag next to your face. Nothing shows until you say so. - With YourMoves+, Time to Go shows how long a walk takes you past each friend ahead of you, and your own target goes up to 50,000 steps. - Fixed: a day could show 0 steps on its own screen although Health had counted it.

Walk the world, one story at a time. - 25 new journeys: Dubrovnik's walls, Petra's Siq, the torii tunnels of Fushimi Inari, the Inca Trail and more. - Every stop now has a true story, with the number worth remembering and where it comes from. - Every stop has its own picture too, on the story, your postcard and in Your stops. - Reach a stop and get a postcard to share or keep. Finish a route for a certificate. - Friends: know when someone passes you, get one evening heads-up when first place is close, and nudge or cheer on a friend. - Past results now show today, this week and this month so far.

Hear it when a friend joins. When someone accepts your Friends invite, you get a notification, like "Mira joined your podium". Tap it and the board opens. The notification only comes if you're in Friends and have the app's notifications on.

Friends is here. Add people with a link and race them on a podium: today, this week and this month. Friends see your daily step totals and the name and emoji you pick, nothing else from Health, and you can leave any time. Every record gets a party. Beat your best Friday, your biggest day of the month or your earliest goal and Today celebrates. Your biggest days ever get the whole screen, and each record you break hangs on Today as a medal. Plus smaller fixes and polish.

Your city, in colour: with YourMoves+, each neighbourhood gets its own colour on the map, with its name written on its streets. Tap one in the list and the map takes you there. Your city, wherever you walk: My city opens where you walk most, and the map's menu lists your other places, country by country. Neighbourhoods have their real names, and with YourMoves+ you can see how much of each country you've walked. One street, one line: walk the same street a hundred times and your map still shows one clean line. Two new highlights on Today: what you walk in a week this month, and in a month this year. Tap one for this year and all time. Notifications with news: your club's final week and the month's result, the new streets you walked this week, your next journey stop and streak milestones. After a few quiet days, a gentle restart. If walks from your Apple Watch reach My city without a route, My city now says so and shows you the switch in Settings. Better with VoiceOver and big text: charts read out day by day, numbers are spoken the way they look, and headings let you jump around each screen. Plus a round of smaller fixes and polish.

New: My city. Walk your town and watch it light up. Every street you walk for the first time counts, and walking a loop claims the ground inside it. Start a walk from Journey › My city, or finish a loop you started on another day. Your walks stay on your iPhone. With YourMoves+, walks from your Apple Watch join your city on their own, and you can see which neighbourhoods you've made yours. Your Step Club, now on your home screen, in small and medium. On iPad, Today, Insights, Journey and My city spread out into two columns. Pictures in your notifications: the day's closing note with your number in the moon, a sunrise on the morning kickoff, a torch when a streak is on the line, the week as a mountain range, the club door when you make a club. The morning and evening notes now get a different picture every day of the week. Switch them off in Settings if you prefer plain text. Share your week, month and year, in five layouts: Skyline, Range, Podium, Passport and Postcard. Your journeys now survive deleting and reinstalling the app. Also fixed: yesterday's steps catching up after a late watch sync, the calculator's plus and minus after a target was passed, a subscription started from an offer code before installing, and a few smaller things.

Your club, planned: the club sheet now says what the rest of the month has to average, from tomorrow to the last day. What keeps the club you hold, what reaches the next one, and whether that is a walk or a stretch. Plus small fixes.

Time to Goal can now aim at any number for today, not just your goal. Pick 12K, 15K, 20K or set your own, and see how many minutes of walking it takes at your own pace, and when you'd be done if you set off now. The pill under the ring follows the number you picked, and stays once it's reached.

Step clubs. Hold a daily average for a whole month and you are in the club for it, from 5K all the way to 25K. Your club gets its own screen, and you can wear its medal as the app icon. Time to goal. A quiet line under the ring that tells you how many minutes of walking are left in your day. New share cards. Four full screen designs for a day and one for your club. Tap Share and pick the one you like. Made for iPad. The whole app, laid out properly for a bigger screen. Also in this update: journeys now credit the distance you actually walked rather than an estimate, your history survives a flight across time zones, and when Health is not sharing something the app says so and shows you where to switch it on.