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What the Walking Tracker actually does

The Walking Tracker is a timer-based session tracker. You tap Start when you begin a walk and Stop when you finish. Pace is set from a speed selector — steps and distance are derived from elapsed time and your selected speed.

By default, it does not use phone GPS or any wearable, and nothing runs in the background listening for movement. Steps and distance for a walking session are calculated from elapsed time and your selected speed, not sensed. If the app is closed mid-walk, the session continues from the recorded start time when you reopen it, because only the timestamps need to survive.

Pause, resume, and manual correction

• Pause stops the timer but preserves elapsed time so far.
• Resume picks up from where you paused — useful for traffic lights, phone calls, or a short errand.
• Manual Duration on the save screen lets you override the final elapsed time if the timer was left running by mistake, so the logged session matches reality.

For non-walking workouts, Log Other Activity records a session with duration and calorie burn without pretending it was a walk.

Goals and the weekly view

Your daily goal is a walking-minutes target — 90 minutes by default — set in your profile, in keeping with the timing approach. The 7-day stats card on the walking screen shows your last week at a glance: your average on the days you walked. There is no multi-week streak counter, which keeps one bad day from snowballing into a motivation problem.

How to use the tracker

Use the timer when you actually start — backfilling a walk from memory drops accuracy fast. Set your speed honestly; that is what determines the calorie and distance estimates. Treat Manual Duration as a correction for timer mistakes, not as a shortcut to skip the timer entirely.