Keep streaking!

Log Apple Fitness+ workouts manually to maintain your streaks.

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Leander Kahney
April 29, 2025

Streaks are a very powerful motivator.

Last year, a friend of mine appeared to be near-suicidal after their daily run wasn’t logged in the Fitness app.

I was a little puzzled, tbh, because they’d done the important part (the run), and the absence of a log didn’t seem like that big a deal.

But my friend had been logging their workouts for years. They were a tiny bit worried the missing data might have an adverse effect on trend graphs and the like.

But it was breaking the streak that really ticked them off. Their streak was perfect until this glitch — and now the entire thing was ruined.

Luckily, they figured out how to add the missing workout manually — a fairly easy process we detail in this how-to.

Apple cleverly gamified fitness and wellness with rewards like closed Activity rings and digital badges. Don’t let an unlogged workout mess it all up.

Also in today’s newsletter:

  • Apple just published a curious new website that helps you track your favorite celebrities across some of the company’s services — namely, Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple Podcasts. It looks kinda interesting, but is still pretty bare-bones and not yet ready for prime time.

  • Anker makes excellent charging accessories, and if you’re in the middle of upgrading everything to USB-C, now’s a good time to save.

  • We hands-on review a new M4 Mac mini stand and hub from Satechi that adds handy front-facing ports and room for storage.

  • Satechi also just launched a pair of very cool-looking travel chargers — check them out.

  • Ignore the horrible Photoshop on this post: Treblab makes well-reviewed audio gear, and we have a great deal on the company’s inexpensive X-Open earbuds. They’re good for running and other activities where you want to hear what’s going on around you.

  • This new gaming microphone looks like it might be a Yeti killer — it’s wireless, for one.

  • Today’s the day in Apple history when Steve Jobs launched a blistering attack on Adobe Flash. The fallout was epic.

  • I still can’t get my iPhone 16 Pro Max’s Camera Control to work right all the time, although I’ve kinda half-successfully trained myself to use it. Time to brush up with our guide to mastering the Camera Control.

— Leander Kahney, EIC.

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Today in Apple history: Steve Jobs trashes Adobe Flash in devastatingly blunt open letter

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One more thing ...

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I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.

— Steve Jobs, 2010.

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