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Straight answers about walking pads and Apple Health.

Written from the questions people actually ask — on Reddit, in Apple's forums, in app reviews — and from building an app that lives inside this exact problem. No fluff, no filler, honest about what works and what doesn't.

Apple Watch · walking pads

Apple Watch not counting steps on a walking pad? Here's why

The Watch counts wrist swings, not footsteps. Why steps vanish while you type, every workaround rated honestly, and how to record the belt itself.

Apple Health · how syncing works

How to get walking pad steps into Apple Health

Health can't pair with a treadmill and never will. What “syncs with Health” really means, why workouts arrive without steps, and the one question to ask any pad app.

Apple Health · data sources

Steps show in Apple Health but don't count? The data source fix

Synced steps sitting in All Recorded Data while the daily total ignores them. How Health picks one source per moment, and the reorder that fixes it.

Accuracy

Walking pad vs Apple Watch: which numbers should you trust?

They will never agree, because they measure different things. The verdict metric by metric, and why calibration doesn't fix a desk walk.

FitShow · troubleshooting

FitShow not syncing steps to Apple Health? Why, and what works

Distance arrives, steps don't. What owners report, why the failures are structural, the settings worth checking first, and the alternative on the same pads.

Pay once

10walks free

One payment. Yours for life.

Unlock for AU$14.99 after your first 10 walks to keep recording. No subscription or renewals. Your saved walks and Apple Health history stay available if you choose not to unlock.

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