Steps on watch face

Steps (simulated from wrist movement) are available, you just need to tap the activity app or put the activity app as a complication. So you are only 1 tap from seeing your step total through the day.

I'm 72 and prefer Kcal, exercise minutes and heart rates personally!

Unless you have a 3rd party app this isn't possible. There are Pedometer apps in the app store that have a complication for the watch. Here's one:

https://apps.apple.com/za/app/stepsapp-pedometer/id1037595083

If you would like to make this feature request to Apple, use this link:

Feedback - Watch - Apple

To get usable information from Health app data export you need a third party app to convert the raw data into readable information.

Remember the iPhone Fitness app does exactly that. It summarises the data into quite a nice page including steps.

Activity app on the watch mirrors the iPhone fitness app and steps are easily viewable, just not on a face complication.

The difference here is that Fitbit concentrates on the rather nebulous and old fashioned concept of pedometer Steps, where the Apple Watch uses actual distance from the GPS - a far more accurate metric.

That is to say, by the way, that all watches simulate steps from wrist movement, no wrist worn device can count leg movements. You will continue to count steps just moving your arms with any watch, and after the end of the day with say a 3 mile walk thrown in, you may have 4000 steps due to the walk and another 4000 due to doing jobs in your home.

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