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Apps Watch to 5K: Couch to 5km Apple Watch App. *WatchOS + iOS 26 Update*
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is there any chance you would create a complication for the apple watch? i have a "fitness" watch face that i turn on when it is time to exercise, and it would be great if it was a complication so it is easy to open the app. You can even maybe have it be a circular progress bar showing how much you have completed the program?
@bencallis i am curious, do i need to "Start a Run" in Apple's activity tracker to track the run for my rings, or will doing the workout straight from watch to 5k be enough?
Likewise, I am curious if you have ever given thought to adding some more voice motivation like, "3 more runs to go" or something after finishing a certain run.
Likewise, I am curious if you have ever given thought to adding some more voice motivation like, "3 more runs to go" or something after finishing a certain run.
Just did my first run with the Ultra 3 and WatchOS26. Before I started I did a restore watch from the Watch to 5K app on the phone. All runs were restored only the setting to skip the warmup and cooldown were not restored. Is it possible to add this to the restore option?
The run itself went perfect and I could't detect any bugs or glitches!
The run itself went perfect and I could't detect any bugs or glitches!
The biggest problem I see is with watchOS 26, there seems to be a bug in the way distance is calculated when adding workouts. When I use watch to 5k, as it switches from walk to run and back pace and run go haywire. Ve tried resetting fitness calibration to no avail. Never had this on the previous watchOS. This bug was there right from the early watchOS 26 betas.
My walk average pace is around 9.3 and my run is around 6.5 but see how it has calculated a super fast run and a super slow walk.
Anyone else seeing this?
My walk average pace is around 9.3 and my run is around 6.5 but see how it has calculated a super fast run and a super slow walk.
Anyone else seeing this?
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This seems strange. Are you running indoors or outdoors? Watch to 5K uses apple HealthKit APIs so records runs the same way as the Apple fitness app and other apps.
Your pace is reported in kilometres per hour but you can change the metric to miles if that is your preferred units.
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Nope
you don’t need to start anything separately in Apple’s Activity app. Just run with Watch to 5K and it will record a Run workout automatically, which fully counts towards your Activity rings.On the voice motivation side, yeah, that’s definitely something I’ve thought about. The original voice prompts were designed to work reliably on the very first Apple Watch models, which had much tighter storage and performance constraints than today’s devices.
Now that the hardware is a lot more capable, I’m hoping to revisit and expand the voice prompts in a future update, including more motivational and progress-based messages like the example you mentioned.
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On the voice motivation side, yeah, that’s definitely something I’ve thought about. The original voice prompts were designed to work reliably on the very first Apple Watch models, which had much tighter storage and performance constraints than today’s devices.
Now that the hardware is a lot more capable, I’m hoping to revisit and expand the voice prompts in a future update, including more motivational and progress-based messages like the example you mentioned.
i want to mention, i hope if you do have it as an option that there is a toggle to turn it off/on - but i will say - for me it is motivating because one thing i do is as i am running, i keep track of how many more "runs" i have in the earlier segments with my hands. it would be nice to have the app automatically do that for me with the voice overs. excited about the update in the future!
It is an inherent issue with even the apple workouts as well when you add a workout during a continuing workout.
For instance, if I did an outdoor walk using the apple workout app, and then choose add workout and start an outdoor run, it has the exact same behavior. I think that answers my question as well, I think that watch to 5k is reading off that data as well.
This has been happening ever since iOS 26, wasn't sure if anyone else was witnessing this kind of error. Have used multiple watches as well, from series 10, to 11 and now the ultra 3 and this behavior hasn't changed, including in the current 26.3 beta.
Quite sad since this is my most used app for workouts, and I restart this program multiple times, every time I want to go on a run streak. Also looks like this might have something to do with how my fitness data is behaving, if this isn't a global issue.