Releases

Set your own rest on Apple Watch, and a Turkey Trot for Thanksgiving.

• Set your own rest. Turn the Digital Crown to choose a rest from 15 seconds to 5 minutes, or tap +15 or −15 while you rest. Your Watch remembers the length you last used.
• A smoother Apple Watch. Swipes, Double Tap and the Crown stay responsive during a rest, and the rest bar and workout clock tick together when your wrist is down.
• A Turkey Trot for Thanksgiving. From November 19, the Feed has a Thanksgiving card. Tap it to start a one-day walk challenge for Thanksgiving Day, ready to go and yours to change.
• Report a challenge. You can report a challenge from its menu, and every report has a Copyright or trademark reason.
• Smaller things. Your puffin is bigger on the map while you record, and hiking boots fit properly, with no fur poking out around the feet.

Choose the day your week starts, and first names in the Feed.

• Choose your week. Settings lets you start your week on Sunday or Monday, and This week on My Activity follows it. It starts on whatever your iPhone’s calendar already uses, and your challenges keep their own week.
• First names in the Feed. The Feed names everyone by first name, you included, and your own row in a challenge’s results says Me.

Invites on startpuffin.com, treadmills, walking pads that reconnect, Siri, and rest timers on Apple Watch.

• Invites that say what they’re for. Inviting a friend shares a startpuffin.com link. Its preview in Messages shows the challenge’s goal, its dates and how many people are in it, and a link to a challenge that has ended says so. Links you sent before keep working.
• Fix a workout’s numbers. If your Watch misjudged a walk, open it from My Activity and tap Edit to correct its time and distance. Challenges count the corrected numbers, the workout carries an “Edited” tag so everyone can see it changed, and Apple Health is left as it was.
• A clear end to every week. When a week or a day of a recurring challenge ends, its page shows the final standings with a crown for every winner, with that week’s workouts folded beneath. A challenge that finishes gets a close-out of its own, and the main Feed shows each one where it happened. Switch the leaderboard between this week and all time, and tap anyone’s name to see their workouts.
• Treadmills. Indoor walk finds standard Bluetooth treadmills, at home or in the gym, as well as walking pads. Pick the machine you’re on and Puffin’ records your time and distance while you run the belt from its own console.
• Your walking pad connects by itself. Pick your pad once and Indoor walk connects to it on its own. Saved devices in Settings lists the pads you’ve used.
• Ask Siri. Ask where you stand in a challenge, how you’re doing this week, or to start a walk, run or ride. Starting a workout works from the Action button and the Shortcuts app too.
• Somewhere to start. If you’re not in a challenge yet, the Feed shows your puffin and two buttons: start a challenge and share its code, or join one with a code a friend sent you.
• Rest timers and back-to-back workouts on Apple Watch. Pull down, turn the Digital Crown or Double Tap during a workout to start a rest that counts down beside your workout time. Tap Next to save a workout and start another straight away, like a lift into a run.
• Smaller things. Your puffin at the top of the Feed sits on a circle in your own color. A workout with a calorie reading below zero from another app no longer stops syncing, and a running challenge says how long it has left again.

My Activity, Puffin’ on Apple Watch, walking pads and indoor walks.

• A new My Activity. See your week, month or year at a glance: calories, steps, workouts, miles walked, active minutes, and how many of your challenges you’ve hit a goal in.
• Puffin’ on Apple Watch. Record a run, walk, ride or any other workout from your wrist, with your heart rate and calories as you go. Tap the flag to see where you stand in each of your challenges.
• Walking pads. Connect a WalkingPad or a UREVO pad when you start an indoor walk and Puffin’ tracks your distance and steps live, straight from the pad. You can run the belt from your watch too.
• Indoor walks. On a treadmill, pick Indoor when you record a walk, then add the distance or pace and the calories when you’re done.
• A tab for your wardrobe. Style Puffin’ has a tab of its own, and Settings now sits under your puffin at the top of the Feed.
• A tidier feed. Each workout shows its icon and how long ago it happened. Challenge cards say whether the goal is daily, weekly or a total, and show the top four.
• Smaller things. Replies in Puffin’s voice from a workout notification. Weeks from before someone joined are left blank in a challenge’s history instead of counting against them. Your pace updates every 15 seconds while you record. You can type a pace when you add a workout by hand, and a workout longer than 30 minutes saves first time. A sync that stalls now starts again by itself.

Puffin’ Points, Style Puffin’ and taking a break.

• Puffin’ Points. Earn points for the goals you hit: every day you hit a daily goal, every week you hit a weekly one, and at milestones on the way to bigger goals. Getting there first, winning a challenge, and working out on your birthday all earn a bonus. Points come from challenges you do with others, arrive the next morning, and live at the top of Settings.
• Style Puffin’. Spend your points in Settings on outfits for your puffin. Try anything on for free, make your puffin any color you like, and save your look as your profile picture. Your puffin now shows up on every workout you post.
• Taking a break. Traveling or unwell? Turn on Rest in Settings to let your challenges know. Your workouts still count, missed days while you’re away aren’t held against you, and Puffin’ won’t nudge you until you’re back.
• The Fall Collection. Fourteen new pieces, from a bobble beanie and a flannel shirt to hiking boots, striped socks, snowflake mittens and a belt bag.
• Challenges. Every challenge has its own feed and leaderboard, plus a day-by-day history of who hit the goal. If your phone is set to the UK, distances show in miles.

Notifications, and challenges that count the workouts you pick.

• Notifications. Hear when someone in your challenge finishes a workout, when anyone hits the goal, when a challenge wraps up, and when your day or week is nearly over and you’re still short of the target. React with 👏 🔥 💪 or leave a comment straight from the notification.
• Pick which workouts count. Set a challenge up for cycling and a walk won’t move the standings. Choose any mix of activities, or leave it open to everything, which is how every existing challenge stays.
• A fix. The app could sit on the opening screen when it couldn’t reach the server. It now tells you what happened and lets you try again.

Groups and challenges become one thing, and you can record workouts in Puffin’.

• One thing, not two. Groups and challenges are now the same thing. Start one, share the invite link or code, and reshape it any time you’re the admin: rename it, change the goal, push the dates, even while it’s running.
• Challenges with no end date, and your own calendar day. Standings score on your own day wherever you are, so a workout finished at 11pm always counts for that day.
• Live standings in the Feed. Each challenge’s card shows where everyone stands, with completed goals marked.
• Record a workout in Puffin’. A GPS route, pause and resume, and a live view on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. It saves straight to Apple Health.
• Smaller things. A year-to-date scoreboard above your Activity tab, eight new mascots to pick for your profile, a handle you can set and change, clearer prompts about what joining or creating a challenge shares, and a smoother first-run Apple Health ask.

Adventure Mode, and a recap when a challenge ends. Both are still being built.

• Adventure Mode. A mode where a crew commits to a story together. Every workout moves the whole crew toward a destination in the Puffin’ world, and the story unfolds as you work out, with nothing extra to do in the app. Challenges as you know them stay as they are.
• A recap when a challenge ends. A recap card you can share as an image. The person who made the challenge can run it back with the same people, and everyone else can start their own. It’s built and being tested now.