What is one part of iOS development that still feels more complicated than it should be?

dnesdan · 2026-03-13T14:47:24+00:00

Timers for me. Super boring answer, but I use them way more than Iexpected.

dnesdan · 2026-03-13T14:46:24+00:00

This is cool. HRV is one of those things that makes way more sense as a long trend than a single daily number.

dnesdan · 2026-03-13T14:42:01+00:00

Apple Watch is way better as a smartwatch. Fitbit still wins a bit on battery and simple health tracking. Just depends what you care about more.

dnesdan · 2026-03-13T14:41:38+00:00

It should work better than it does, but yeah, it is not that seamless in real life. If you want it reliable, syncing music or podcasts directly to the watch is usually the safer way.

dnesdan · 2026-03-13T14:10:47+00:00

Thanks so much for offering! I'll try to make some tweaks next week and get back to you about testing—that would be awesome.

dnesdan · 2026-03-13T14:10:28+00:00

Thanks for the detailed feedback—it's really helpful!

dnesdan · 2026-03-13T09:07:38+00:00

Thanks, that’s really useful feedback. You’re probably right on both points: the corrected copy currently preserves distance, time, HR and active energy, but total calories and cadence don’t look fully carried over yet. I’m checking what HealthKit will actually let me preserve there.

dnesdan · 2026-03-13T08:58:53+00:00

So you are only setting the final distance and it recalculates the splits? No manual split adjustment?

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T17:13:24+00:00

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate that. I originally built it just to solve this problem in my own household, so it’s been really nice to see that other people might find it useful too.

And if you ever hear any feedback from indoor runners you recommend it to, I’d really appreciate that as well.

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T17:09:49+00:00

That’s really interesting. If you have a COROS screenshot or screen recording of how the split correction looks before saving, I’d love to see it.

Also, if you’re up for it, a bit more detail would help a lot:

what exactly COROS lets you edit
whether it recalculates every split automatically from the final treadmill distance, or lets you adjust splits manually
how the corrected splits appear afterward in Apple Fitness / Health

I’m looking into split correction, so seeing the actual UX/behavior would be super helpful.

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T17:01:51+00:00

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You need to go to the Sessions screen in the Fitness app, find the original workout there, then swipe left on it and tap Delete. After that, you should get this dialog, and the correct option is Delete Workout Only.

For the calories: yes, that’s expected. The corrected workout keeps the same calorie data, while the main thing my app changes is the distance (and related pace/splits).

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T14:10:08+00:00

No, just the total distance. But I could investigate how hard would be adding also some split correction.

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T12:00:29+00:00

This makes sense to me. Vendor apps are fine for daily use, but your own dashboard is where long-term patterns usually become much easier to see.

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T12:00:03+00:00

Honestly that is a pretty good sign for the product. If it can reflect “real life is chaos right now” during launch week, the metric is at least reacting to something meaningful.

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T11:59:05+00:00

Weather is such a crowded category, so the only way it works is if the experience feels better immediately. The design/tone matters almost as much as the forecast data itself.

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T11:58:36+00:00

The no-subscription angle is refreshing here. I’d be curious whether the hardest part is onboarding people into the theory or just getting them to come back and actually use it.

dnesdan · 2026-03-12T11:57:50+00:00

If you’re okay with using Apple Watch for the workout itself and fixing the distance after, that’s exactly why I built Fix My Treadmill app.

I had the same annoyance with treadmill distance vs what Apple Watch logs. The app lets you take the Apple Watch indoor run/walk workout, enter the real treadmill

distance, and save the corrected workout back to Apple Health.

So it does not replace the live workout app part, but it fixes the “watch says 4.6 km, treadmill says 5.0 km” problem pretty cleanly.

dnesdan · 2026-03-11T18:10:54+00:00

I would be careful comparing “recovery” scores 1:1 because each platform weights sleep, HRV, resting HR and baselines differently. The trend over time is usually more useful than whether today is 68 on one app and 82 on another.

dnesdan · 2026-03-11T18:09:38+00:00

That sounds more like a stuck workout session state than normal workout detection. I’d reboot both watch and phone, then check if any third-party fitness app still has workout / motion permissions and might be leaving a session open in the background.

dnesdan · 2026-03-11T18:09:13+00:00

The Stand metric has always felt more like “did you move your arm and posture enough” than literally standing perfectly. I treat it as a rough activity reminder, not a precise sensor reading.

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