Your rides, straight from Strava

Connect once and pick the days you want, choose the map your film is drawn in, and use the whole of a big screen.

Your rides, straight from Strava 🔗

The Strava picker sheet in How It Went, listing activities with their date, distance, elevation gain and moving time. Two are checked, the header reads "2 rides selected", and there is an Add button. One of the entries is an Afternoon Walk.

Tap Get rides from Strava on the Rides step, approve it once on Strava's page, and your activities are a list inside the app. Tap the ones you want and Add. There is no file to export and no browser detour.

Walks are in the list too, which is what you want for a rest day you spent on your feet.

Strava limits access while How It Went is new, so it can come back saying it would not connect. A file works when that happens, and the Garmin export carries more of the ride anyway.

How it works today: Rides from Strava

Pick your map 🗺️

The same moment of a film twice, side by side, on day 2 at 129.7 km as the route crosses into Italy at Gorizia. On the left, in Daylight, the map is green with a blue sea and an orange track. On the right, in Dark slate, the map is near-black with a navy sea and the track in a lighter orange.

Map style sits on the Film screen, right under the format. Five to choose from, and the film redraws in whichever one you pick.

The default is Daylight. If most of your photographs are from the evening, try Dark slate — the orange track holds up on it, and the photographs stop looking like they were taken on a different day than the map they sit on.

How it works today: The Film screen

Ground that stands up

A frame of a vertical film with 3D terrain on and the track wall off, on day 2 at 58.0 km. The mountains around the Predel pass stand up off the map with a lake below them, and the track climbs through them to a flag reading Predel (1,156 m), into Slovenia.

Under Advanced, 3D terrain stands up twice as far off the map as it did.

Turn the track wall off when you turn it on. The wall shares its vertical scale with the terrain, so with the ground standing up the wall ends up inside the hill rather than on it.

How it works today: The Film screen

Made for a tablet

The Film step on an 11-inch iPad in landscape. Rides, Moments, Photos, Shots and Film run down a rail on the left, the film of Villach to Ljubljana stands in its own column over a map of Villach, and Format, Map style, Length and Advanced sit in a column to its right. Taken September 19, 2026.

On an iPad or in a Mac window the steps move into a rail down the side, and once there is room the film sits beside its controls rather than above them. On an 11-inch or larger iPad held upright that happens on the Film step, and with any iPad turned on its side, the mini included, it happens on every step.

It earns its keep on the two jobs a phone is worst at: trimming a clip to the frame you meant, and reading a week of photographs to decide which ones are in.

How it works today: On a Mac or an iPad

1.1.7Your rides, straight from Strava