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Health > Steps > and select Y at the top for years.

It doesn’t give you the total, but you can easily tap on each month and add it up.
 
There's an app called HealthView that will let you see your health stats by day, week, month, or year without having to add anything up. (I've walked 5,332,255 steps so far this year.) It has widget options and watch complications for daily stats.

HealthView has a 10-day free trial. If you like it, it has various subscription prices and also a one-time payment option.

There's another app called Health Stats that does pretty much the same thing. It's free to use, but you can only get today, this week, and lifetime stats without purchasing. It's a one-time payment, though, and cheaper than HealthView. But it doesn't have a snazzy dashboard like HealthView either.
 
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I've been keeping a spreadsheet over the years. In case Health loses data (had that happen for a couple of months when I got a new phone in 2018) and allows me to do compares over last/two weeks, previous year, etc. and any other way I want to swizzle the data. And track what I eat, what routes I took, hiking trails.

Also allows me to put context into a note column, so can see why one year/month was down/up at that time (sick, traveling).
 
There are a few pedometer type apps that work off the same data and probably can do this. Ironically the one i've got installed Pedometer++ doesnt but does have an export function that would let you work it out quite quickly in a spreadsheet should you want to.

Just checked StepsApp that i used to us and that does have the option but its a Pro feature that needs an in app purchase to activate it.
 
You can’t be serious and are trolling right?

Obviously some days I walked miles upon miles… and other days I barely got outta bed.
No, that poster's correct. The health app shows the average number of daily steps you took for the year. So if you multiply that by 365 (or 366 for leap year), you get the total number of steps you took during the year. Doesn't matter if you took 0 steps one day and 100,000 the next.
 
No, that poster's correct. The health app shows the average number of daily steps you took for the year. So if you multiply that by 365 (or 366 for leap year), you get the total number of steps you took during the year. Doesn't matter if you took 0 steps one day and 100,000 the next.
Thank you!
 
Average * 365 is not accurate. In my case, that calculation gives 23,000 extra steps for 340 days vs actual for year to date. And even bigger error when 365 plugged in. Problem is average steps is a whole rounded number vs a floating value. Small example:

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Average * 365 is not accurate. In my case, that calculation gives 23,000 extra steps for 340 days vs actual for year to date. And even bigger error when 365 plugged in. Problem is average steps is a whole rounded number vs a floating value. Small example:

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your example is flawed.
when it is a small number like that, decimal makes a big difference. But my average daily steps is 4266.
4200.51 vs 4201 is not a significant difference.
 
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Average * 365 is not accurate. In my case, that calculation gives 23,000 extra steps for 340 days vs actual for year to date. And even bigger error when 365 plugged in. Problem is average steps is a whole rounded number vs a floating value. Small example:

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So max error is just 365, wouldn’t be significant for most people.
 
Yearly steps is a meaningless number.
Daily is useful, Weekly and monthly is useful, but yearly is not except in a curiosity sort of way.
 
Hoping that there would be a similar to Spotify wrapped where Apple Watch fitness can tell me how much I walked this entire year considering I’ve exercised almost every morning. This watch has changed my life.
Download an app called "Activity Stats" for you iPhone. It will show you totals for all your activity since you started using your watch for activity. To find out for the past year just go in and change the start date to a year previous.
 
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