What is the American standard for a daily Move Goal? How does someone know how to set this goal? Does this equate to anything intuitive? A
Why isn’t a daily Step Goal used instead? The standard 10,000 step baseline, used by other fitness trackers, is clearly understood!
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Here is the best answer I can give you concerning how calories are calculated:
To see the total calories burned for the day first, tap on the Activity app (and History at the bottom left corner if not already selected - then select a day). Then swipe left in the "Move" section to not show the graph and show the Active and Total calories. (Swipe right to return to the graph.)
According to What is the difference in "active cal… - Apple Community
Total calories include - basal calories + calories burned when doing a workout. Active calories are those that are burned during some activity like swimming running or anything else where your body is moving, Basal are those that your body burns during a day without any activity.
Be aware that this is a user-to-user forum. Not one here (with VERY limited exceptions) works for Apple. We are just users like yourself and try to be helpful and do the best we can.
If you would like to make the step goal suggestion to Apple, use this link:
Move Goal vs Step Goal
