How to see steps and distance traveled from your Apple Watch or iPhone

The Apple Watch is able to measure the steps you take each day, so you can check this data both from the watch and from the iPhone.

The Apple Watch is a device capable of measuring your health and one of these capabilities is able to measure your steps with high accuracy. And while it’s not a metric that the watch easily displays, you’ll probably want to keep it in mind.

That is why we are going to explain to you step by step how you can view steps and distance from your Apple Watch and iPhone. This is interesting data, especially if you want to see your progress.

The Apple Watch is able to measure the steps and distance you walk each day

How to Track and View Steps from Apple Watch

The Apple Watch automatically tracks your steps when you wear it, and that’s an interesting fact to keep in mind. This data does not appear in activity rings, but it is very interesting and you can see it by following these steps:

1. open app Exercise in the Apple Watch.
2. Swipe down or rotate the Digital Crown.
3. After the three graphs of your rings, you will see the Section Total Steps with your daily steps.
4. Just below you can also see the distance traveled and floors climbed.
5. If you click below Weekly summaryyou will see all actions you have taken in the last 7 days.

The Apple Watch is able to measure your steps automatically

Add step count to your Apple Watch face

If you are very interested in this parameter, you can add a step counter to your apple watch face you gave that day, so you can always see them just by looking at the time. Apple does not natively offer a complication to view the given steps, but you can do so by following these steps:

1. Download the Duffy – Steps Complication app for free.
2. Launch the app on the iPhone and allow it to access your health data, the app will not collect any data.
3. Now go to the iPhone Watch app and check that Duffy – Steps Complication is installed on your Apple Watch.
4. Modify the sphere you want add Duffy complication showing your steps

How to Track and View Steps from iPhone

Similarly, if you have an Apple Watch, the iPhone is also able to show you the steps you have completedwithout the need to download an app. If you don’t have an Apple Watch, you’ll need to top up one of the many step-measuring apps, like the Duffy one we showed you earlier.

To view the steps from the iPhone, follow these steps:

1. open the fitness app on iPhone.
2. Select tab abstract.
3. Below the activity rings you will see the steps and distance traveled.

From the Fitness app on iPhone, you can see the steps you have taken

It’s as simple as checking the steps you’ve taken each day, and if from the iPhone Fitness app activate Trends, you will be able to closely monitor this and other parameters of your health. This is certainly very interesting data.