Part of the Loopa iOS app guide.
The Activity screen is where you log daily movement (steps and active minutes) and individual workout sessions. You reach it from Today's Page (scroll down to The Log and tap Activity) or from The Quick-Log button by choosing Activity. See Using the iOS app for the wider tour, and Activity tracking for the background.
General wellness tracking, not medical advice.
Logging your day
The Today card holds two stepper fields:
- Steps: moves in steps of 250
- Active min: minutes, in steps of 5
Fill in either one (or both) and tap Log Day. The button is active whenever steps or minutes has a number, and filing drops a LOGGED confirmation. Logging the day overwrites that day's step and minute totals rather than adding to them, so it's the running total you enter, not an increment.
Coach My Movement
Not sure what to do? Under the Coach My Movement stamp, tap Suggest Activities and the app hands you five ideas that fit you today, ordered from an easy win to a gentle stretch, each with a one-line reason, a duration, an intensity, and a LOG button that logs it in a tap. The picks are grounded in your own logs (your Health Context, weight versus goal, activity level, and recent sessions) and always put safety first. More ideas swaps in a fresh set. See Coach My Movement for the full rundown.
Logging a workout
Below that, Log a Workout lets you record a single session. Pick a type from the grid of chips (walking, running, cycling, strength, yoga, HIIT, swimming or rowing), set a Duration in minutes (steps of 5, starting at 30), and tap Log <Type>. Each workout is filed separately from the day's step total, so you can log several in a day and they stack up under it.
Calories burned
Days and workouts carry a calorie figure. A number shown with a leading ~ is a server estimate (worked out from the activity type, duration, or steps); a figure you entered yourself shows without the tilde. So ~240 kcal is an estimate and 240 kcal is your own number.
The record
The Record lists days that had movement: steps, active minutes, or a workout. Each day shows its date, total calories, STEPS, and ACTIVE minutes, with any workout sessions listed beneath (type, duration, calories, and time). If nothing's been logged you'll see No activity yet over "Log steps or a workout to start." Pull down to refresh.
Editing
- Press and hold a day's totals and choose Clear steps & minutes. A dialog asks "Clear this day's steps and active minutes?", and confirming zeroes just those totals (any workouts on the day are left alone) with a TOTALS CLEARED toast.
- Press and hold a workout and choose Strike from the record to remove that session, confirmed with a STRUCK FROM THE RECORD toast.
How it feeds your day
What you log here drives the Move ring on Today's Page, filling toward your daily active-minutes goal (or showing your step count), and it shapes the coach's headline about movement. The calories you burn are weighed against what you eat in the energy-balance and weekly deficit figures on the Trends screen, so activity is one half of the calorie picture. See Trends on iOS and Diet and exercise.
Apple Health
If you've connected Apple Health, steps, Apple Exercise Time, and workouts can come across from it automatically (Health is treated as the source of truth for those daily totals), so on a connected phone you often won't need to type steps or minutes at all. See Apple Health sync to set it up.
