Made for desk days, not workouts. Steps Widget keeps your step count on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy, checks your day every hour, and only nudges you when your day stalls. No plans, no streaks, no guilt. This update brings polish and fixes throughout. Enjoying Steps Widget? A rating helps other people find it.

Know when a friend wants your steps. When a friend taps Ask for Update, you now get a notification with their name and photo, and your latest steps go back to them. Tap it to open Side by Side. Also in this update • Tap a friend in Side by Side to see their photo up close and everything you can do with them • Copy a link to your card, for apps that can't take the card file • A friend's status now reaches your Side by Side widget sooner • Pick a light, dark or accent color for the caption on your share image Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Walking with me: your steps side by side with a friend. Make a name card with your name and photo, then send it to a friend in Messages, AirDrop it, or swap cards in person with Nearby. Once they accept, you see each other's steps in the app and on the new Side by Side widget. Your steps are encrypted on your phone before they're sent, so only the friends you choose can read them. Also in this update • Pick a status like Home, Office or Park to show under your name, and tap it on the widget to switch • Style the Side by Side widget with your own colors, chart and photos Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Your step count on the app icon. Turn on Step Count Badge in Settings and today's steps show as the badge on the app icon, so a glance at your Home Screen tells you where you stand. Also in this update • Tap the step count on a widget to fetch your latest steps • A new Step Sources page shows which devices and apps your steps come from, and lets you tell me when a number looks wrong Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Choose when your reminders arrive. The reminder editor now has a slider for how far behind your goal you need to be before a nudge goes out: slide left to hear sooner, right to wait, or all the way to turn those nudges off. Ahead of pace gets the same control for the note that cheers you on, and now rotates through several messages instead of repeating one. Also in this update • Frame a photo background for medium widgets, not just small ones Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Compare steps with friends in Messages. Start a step ranking in any chat. Each person adds today's steps with a tap, and the board updates as it is passed along. Nothing is uploaded: the ranking lives in the message itself. Also in this update • One place to share: your widget picture and your style card now sit side by side, with an option for a transparent background • Layouts that adapt to iPhone Duo Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Steps Widget on your Apple Watch. If you have an Apple Watch without the app, Settings now shows you how to get it: see your steps on your wrist and add complications to your watch face. Also in this update • A reminder when you share a style to send the original image, since apps that resize pictures can lose the style or your message • Fixed gradient styles showing as one flat color on widgets Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Straighten and flip a photo style. The photo editor gained the adjustments it was missing: rotate a crooked shot level, flip it horizontally or vertically, and the widget crops from the result. Also in this update • A shared style card now shows what's inside it — the photo, the framing and the colors — and you can add a short message before you send it • The reminder editor shows the average steps that followed each falling-behind message, so you can see which wording actually gets you moving • Your goal-reached note arrives even when the app hasn't been opened all day • A note on the home screen when iCloud is full, since settings and reminder wording can't sync until there's room Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Write your own reminders. Every goal reminder can now be rewritten in your own words — the nudge when you're behind, the note when you're ahead, the cheer when you reach your goal. Placeholders fill in your numbers, and sections with several messages rotate so the nudges don't repeat. Where Apple Intelligence is available, you can also describe a voice — a sports coach, a witty friend — and have your messages restyled. Also in this update • Share a photo style as a card; opening it in Steps recreates the style • Ask Siri or Shortcuts for your steps over a day, week, month or year Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Photo backgrounds are easier to read. On a photo background, the chart, progress bar and smaller labels now use the same color as your step count instead of a faded shade of it, so they stand out against the picture just as clearly. Photo styles you've already saved pick this up the next time you edit them. Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Setting up Steps Widget is simpler. New installs now start with a short three-step guide: connect Apple Health, turn on goal reminders, and you're ready to go. Also in this update • Send feedback by email right from Settings Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Framing a photo feels steadier. In the photo editor, dragging and pinching now work together without the picture jumping, and zooming keeps whatever sits in the middle of the widget in place. Also in this update • Duplicate for This Widget now always makes a separate copy of the style • Deleting a style only resets the widgets it was saved to • Photo styles are marked in the style picker, so they're easy to spot Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Share a photo style, and the photo comes with it. When the widget you share is wearing one of your photo styles, the rest of the picture now spreads out around it, so the card reads as one photograph instead of a widget on a blank background. Also in this update • Swapping a style's photo keeps the framing and adjustments you already made • Pinch to zoom works on iPad as soon as a photo opens • Photo styles sync their pictures to your other devices more reliably • Large photos keep more of their detail, and zoom in further Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Make a widget style out of one of your photos. Pick a picture and Steps builds a style from it: either a palette drawn from its colors, or the photo itself behind your step count, framed how you like. Saved styles go to a library you can come back to and edit, and they follow you to your other devices along with the pictures. Also in this update • The app icons have been redrawn • Accent colors are corrected for contrast, so the numbers stay readable on any style • You can write your own caption when sharing a widget • Custom colors no longer reset your Apple Watch widget styles Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Reminder messages are now translated into six more languages. The new reminder wording added in the last update was still appearing in English. It now shows in German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese. Also in this update • Fixed a button on the goal card that could be hard to read with some widget colors Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Widgets keep up with you better. Every widget on screen now shares a single reading instead of each fetching its own. Also in this update • Steadier complications on Apple Watch • Chart gridlines line up with the clock in Last 24-Hour mode Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Widgets keep up with you better. Every widget on screen now shares a single reading instead of each fetching its own. Also in this update • Steadier complications on Apple Watch • Chart gridlines line up with the clock in Last 24-Hour mode • A new iMessage sticker icon Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Hit your goal, and the nudging stops. When your steps cross your daily goal, that day's reminder arrives as a congratulation instead of a nudge — and it's the last you'll hear from it until tomorrow. Also in this update • A refreshed app icon • Goal reminders now count the steps your iPhone has sensed but Health hasn't synced yet, so they stop nudging you when you've already walked • Fixes across the app, widgets and Apple Watch Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Goal reminders learn better, and now they share what they learn. The model behind your reminders reads the last 24 hours as a rolling window and works forward hour by hour, instead of guessing your total in one jump. It picks up daily, weekly and monthly patterns, and keeps adjusting as your routine moves. It also travels. Your iPhone and Apple Watch now share a single model through iCloud, so whichever device does the training, the other gets the result — instead of each one learning you separately. Also in this update • Settings shows when your model was last updated, and lets you reset it • The style picker now says which widget suits the way you read your day • Fixes across the app, widgets and Apple Watch Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

Your widget can now show the hours you stood. When your Apple Watch is recording stand hours, they appear as a row of dots under the chart — one for every hour, filled in for the ones you got up. A glance now shows not just how far you walked, but how the day was spread out. Also in this update • Steps Widget works without Health access: if you'd rather not connect the Health app, your steps can come straight from your iPhone's motion sensor instead • The chart moves instead of jumping — the line and the hours animate as your steps come in • Fixes across the app, widgets and Apple Watch Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About.

A small fix-up release. Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. A good part of this app started as someone else's suggestion.

This one is a round of polish. • Start of Day is easier to find, and now says what it does — steps before it count toward yesterday • A new Guide link in Settings opens the full documentation • What a one-time widget purchase includes is spelled out more clearly: design your widget once, and pay again only if you want a new look • Fixes and refinements across the app, widgets and Apple Watch

Insight Every week, Steps Widget finds the one thing worth noticing in your last seven days — a personal best, a milestone crossed, your steadiest week yet, or the hour when you do most of your walking. One headline, one card, and the chart behind it. Goal reminders that keep up with you When your walking routine shifts, the widget lets you know, and your reminders retrain around your new hours. Also in this release • Fixed an issue that could prevent access to Health data • A clearer explanation of one-time widget purchases, and yearly savings shown up front • Refinements across the Apple Watch app and widgets

A bug-fix update, with thanks to everyone who reported these. • Fixed an error some people saw when granting Apple Health access — the permission prompt now works reliably. • Apple Watch: the Health access request and your step count load properly in the watch app again. • Steps refresh right away when you reopen the app on iPhone or Apple Watch. • Fixed the "time ago" label on widgets so the last-updated time stays accurate. • Wording and translation polish in every language. If Steps Widget has earned its spot on your Lock Screen, a rating or a short review really helps a small indie app get found. Something still off? Tell us in the app — tap "Could be better" when we ask how it's going, and describe what happened. Every report gets read.

New Features, Enhanced Tracking, and Smoother Performance We updated the widget and tracking engine to make staying active effortless: • NEW WIDGET DESIGNS: Customize your Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with sleek color palettes and layout options. • APPLE WATCH SYNC: Instant real-time step and distance synchronization between your watch and iPhone. • SMART MOVE REMINDERS: Personalized sedentary alerts timed to help you reach your daily step goals. • BATTERY OPTIMIZATION: Lower background power consumption for all-day pedometer tracking. Enjoying Steps Widget? Please take a moment to leave a 5-star review on the App Store to support future updates.