Fitness 4+

So I’ve been using this app to track my distance and calories burned for over a year now, but it wasn’t until I started training for a half marathon that I noticed that the distance the app says I’ve run was all over the place. There would be times I went ran the exact same distance two days apart but the app would say that one day I had ran an extra half a mile.
I knew it was inaccurate but I didn’t realise by how much until I ran the half marathon today. According to this fitness app, rather than running the standard 13.1 miles, the organisers must have been way off because according to my phone I’ve run over 18 miles today on the half marathon course. Shockingly bad!
Overall I would rate this fitness app as terribly poor and inaccurate, but I suppose you can at least use it to compare the distances and calories that it says you’re burning from one day to the next. I’ll still use it for this purpose, just to keep track of which days I’ve worked harder than others, but as far as keeping an accurate record of these details I wouldn’t trust the app on this phone as far as I could throw it (and the phone would still claim I’d not thrown it as far as I actually had, just to provide another blow to my ego).

I really want to engage with apple fitness + as I’m paying for it with my one account but the UI is just so un-user friendly. Case in point the meditation section, you can’t filter so that you see each trainers videos from oldest to newest, so the video at the top is always the most recent. So I can’t go through a mediations trainers videos one by one in order without scrolling down,learning meditation and fitness is a journey that starts at the start! and progresses. Also there are no playlists, why can’t I just build playlist of meditations and workouts I find interesting so I can build a whole routine I can go through. Apple set the bar for easy user interaction and this app is so far below it that I’ve had the app for almost half a year and still can’t work out how the designers expect me to consistently engage with it. I’d love to use Fitness plus instead of headspace but because if the UI I probably won’t. I’d love to use fitness plus instead of daily yoga but because of the UI I probably won’t. And as I get further in my fitness journey I imagine I’ll probably end up having to find alternate apps to fitness plus for just the same reason.

Apple there is no where to report issues with the app &/or provide feedback other than in this Review App function. The app needs bug fixes for the award updates. The app has stopped recording & showing awards for anything over the daily calorie count. Anything I do over and above is not showing any awards for nor is it showing in the daily updates! The app is supposed to motivate with the awards but it seems to have broken since BST finished in the UK & clocks changed back to GMT. I have had issues with updates syncing with Myzone app as well and the Apple Fitness app once it syncs for the day doesn’t seem to want to record anything over & above! I had issues with the Myzone app after BST changed back to GMT so don’t know if the US Centric apps are having trouble with world timezone changes but would really appreciate if you could investigate & provide bug fixes because it is frustrating & demotivating when you think you’ve done a decent workout & it’s not recorded it properly! Apple please fix when time zone clock changes thank you! I would have given the app a five star rating 6 months ago but whenever clocks summer time/daylight savings change it’s like everything goes wrong!!! Even my iPhone alarm clock didn’t go off, it couldn’t figure out what day it was!