New: Friends. Add friends with a code, race your weekly steps, keep streaks going together and send cheers. It's optional and private: only friends you approve see your steps. New: a 5,000-step daily goal with streaks, and a weekly recap card to share. New: a quicker setup that picks up where you left off. Better: Screen Time access is easier to turn back on, the apps you pick stay picked when you upgrade to Pro, and the weekly comparison now compares the same days. Updating doesn't reset anything: your steps, banked minutes, locked apps and pass history carry over.

Fixed: on iPad, the Screen Time tab and setup could show "No Screen Time yet". Stride now reads this iPad's Screen Time. Updating doesn't reset anything: your steps, banked minutes, locked apps and pass history carry over.

See where your phone time goes, then lock it behind a walk. NEW: SCREEN TIME • A new Screen Time tab shows your iPhone time for today or the last 7 days: your daily average, how it compares with the week before, your most-used apps and categories, and how often you pick up your phone. • See which of your top apps are locked and which aren't, and lock them right from the same screen. • Your Screen Time stays on your iPhone. Apple shows it inside Stride; Stride can't read, save or upload it. ALSO • New "Rate Stride" option in Settings. Reviews help other people find Stride. Updating doesn't reset anything: your steps, banked minutes, locked apps and pass history carry over.

A warmer, calmer Stride, plus fixes to how steps and passes are counted. NEW LOOK • A fresh, cozy design across Today, Apps, Week and Settings. • Today shows your progress to the next reward on a new step ring, with your banked minutes in their own card. • Pull down on Today to refresh your steps from Apple Health. STEPS AND MINUTES • Fixed double-counted steps. If you wear an Apple Watch, a walk recorded by both your iPhone and your Watch used to count twice. It now counts once, the way Apple Health counts it, so you may see fewer steps than before. • Progress now counts your whole week. Steps left over from earlier days carry toward your next 15 minutes, and Today and the shield show how many steps you still need. • Stride can refresh your steps in the background (about once an hour, as iOS allows), so newly earned minutes can be ready on the shield without opening Stride first. • After the Monday reset, the shield no longer offers last week's minutes. • Fixed a bug where a very busy week (more than 30 passes) could give back minutes you had already used. UNLOCKING • Unlocking from the shield now keeps you in the app instead of sending you to the Home Screen. • On iOS 26.5 and later, the shield's "Open Stride" button opens Stride directly. • Removed the Dynamic Island countdown. It rarely appeared and could show the wrong time. Pass notifications still tell you at the halfway point, with 1 minute left, and when your apps re-lock. Updating doesn't reset anything: your steps still come straight from Apple Health, and your locked apps, pass history and settings carry over.