I had to update the app, but is this the update that was announced in the blog post? Or was this an update that had to do with the scheduled maintenance? Because i don’t notice any difference in the step counter. I do have an older phone, but from my understanding it should have been much better now. Unfortunately, it still counts at most half the steps i take, usually even way less. I have a pedometer that does count them accurately.
I found the step counting to improve with recent updates, notably four months ago or so it’s stabilized for me as one for one.
so as the other user suggested, it may be your device inaccurately counting steps.
can you check if your fitness tracker is not optimized by your battery or something like that that’s messing up the count?
I had checked all these settings when i got the app. The thing is that i also downloaded an open source pedometer and that app seems way more accurate, hence my confusion
got it.
I’m not sure then, the walkscape step ok Google counter has been really accurate for me for quite a while now, so I’m not sure what else it could be.
how are you testing it, after a long walk or just 20 steps, actively running or in the background?
Long walks. It doesn’t work at all in the background, even the screen lock seems to block the count. My pedometer app though, does fine counting steps in the background.
that sounds frustrating. i had a background problem like in the first update, but nothing since.
that’s gotta be something outside of walkscape, background running activity is pretty dialed in at this point, at least on my phone, pixel 6
i use it every day and its nearly one to one in the background.
i just checked my walkscape counter against a friend’s iphone, we’ve been walking around a flea market today.
5014 for me through walkscape and google fit, 4945 for her on her iphone.