Small release, smoother everyday Tap the "Last run" card on your training home and the run opens — full detail, media and coach insights included. "What's new" now really is new: it only appears when there is something fresh for your version, swiping it away counts as read, and its entries come straight from each release.

Your avatar, the way you want it The cut-out avatar now fills the card by default instead of sitting in a corner — sized to your photo automatically. Move it anywhere, and set its size with the buttons or two fingers. Position and size are remembered per run. Monotony, at a glance The training load card now shows how varied your week was as a band — varied, usual, flat — instead of a bare number. The separate strain tile is gone: it was just weekly load times monotony, two numbers already on the card. Fixes Dragging your photo into place no longer jumps to a different photo. And a run you set to "only me" now disappears from your public archive and link previews too, not just from its own page.

Run setup: now two tabs Setup holds everything you configure — visibility, challenge, time window, tracking, heart rate. Start holds what you share with your followers, plus the start button. The challenge gets its own window Goal distance on a slider, start on a date and time wheel. Nothing on this screen is typed any more. Your map is back in Apple Health The route your iPhone records during watch runs is attached to the workout again. In three situations it used to be dropped without a word. Also: km laps in Apple Fitness are now marked as beta.

This update makes run tracking a lot more resilient: • If the watch stops responding mid-run, your iPhone now takes over tracking and lets you know — runs no longer end silently or lose their second half. • A run that ended but never made it into Apple Health is rescued the next time you open the watch app, and you're notified right away if a workout wasn't saved. • Restarting after a crash starts a clean new session — the interrupted attempt is kept as its own run. • Dictating your training note now keeps every sentence, even when you pause between them. • New in session settings: kilometre laps for Apple Fitness (off by default for now). • Heart rate, coach insights and your pre-run note on your public runner page are now visible to approved followers only by default. Sharing settings let you open them up any time.

Effort now reaches Apple Health Your rating from the post-run check-in is now written to the workout as Effort and shows up in the Fitness app right on the run. It still arrives even when a watch-recorded workout takes minutes to reach your iPhone. Skip the check-in and the field stays empty. Per-kilometre laps in the Fitness app Runs now show a lap table with distance, time and pace for every kilometre. Pauses are handled properly: stop at a traffic light and the kilometre is split right there, instead of one meaningless 17-minute kilometre. Brief stops under 20 seconds stay part of the running stretch. GPS routes on Apple Watch runs Runs recorded on the Watch were missing their map in the Fitness app. The route is now attached reliably. Older runs cannot be repaired after the fact — their GPS points remain fully intact inside Rivea. Cleaner tracks, no stray points Stray GPS fixes that shoot off the route and snap back are now filtered out. This was never just a cosmetic problem: the recorded distance was affected too, and is now more accurate. Post-run check-in after races Races were missing the check-in on the finish screen. Now every run gets one. Kilometre marks survive interruptions If watchOS suspended the app mid-run, every kilometre mark set until then was lost. That no longer happens. Also fixed: the German wording of the Health permission prompts.

Neu: - Rebranding Marathon Guide -> Rivea Run - Überarbeitete Apple Watch Oberfläche

New: - Nutrition tips Fixes: - Filtering improved in the Knowledge library

New: - Send back reactions from the Apple Watch - Knowledge database

Features: - Coach feedback - Session history Bug Fix: - Auto-Pause - Stop der Session

Bugfix: - Fix sync bug in Apple Watch

Features: - Pair a Bluetooth chest-strap heart-rate sensor (Polar H10, Wahoo Tickr, Garmin HRM-Pro). Auto-reconnects on launch and takes priority over the watch when delivering fresh data. Battery shown in Profile. - New "Heart Rate Source" row on the prepare screens shows where your heart rate will come from before you start. - Confirmation step before starting an iPhone-only run, so you don't trigger it by accident next to the tab bar. - Refreshed Rivea Run look across the Prepare and Live Tracker screens — cleaner typography, calmer colours, better contrast. - Race prepare now uses a paged layout for share info, countdown, and race details. - Voice playback simplified to a single Off / On switch. - Streamlined onboarding — info slides folded into the profile-capture steps so the flow completes itself. - New Permissions card in your Profile for Location and Health, with one-tap grant. Bugfixes: - Taking photos or videos during a run no longer ends the watch workout. - GPS now restarts correctly when you resume on the watch after pausing on the phone. - Stopping the run on the phone now reliably ends the workout on the watch. - The splash image no longer re-downloads on every launch when it hasn't changed. - After a cold launch, an active watch workout is recovered via HealthKit instead of being lost. - The "Apple Watch" tab on the race prepare screen is now legible when selected.

Feature: - New onboarding: product story is now embedded directly into profile capture — tighter and faster (8 slides instead of 12). - Profile: new Permissions card for Location and Health — grant access or jump to Settings with one tap. - Splash screen: more robust layout across devices; invisible whitespace from remote config is trimmed automatically. Bugfix: - Watch run-tracking now survives long pauses — the session is restored automatically when the app re-opens. - The iPhone no longer immediately ends a paused watch session if the watch briefly suspends (8 s grace window). - The long-pause warning on the watch now fires after 9 min instead of as a confusing "Extended Runtime expired" message. - Consistent German menu labels ("Über uns", "Intro", "Über Rivea Run"). - Channel tips copy refined (mail at run start, live reactions + voice messages in real time).

Features: - New "You" tab — A new "You" tab in the bottom navigation with identity card, channel summary, and quick access to Profile, History, and Settings. Channel Detail screen — Tap your channel summary to view its live status (Dormant / Prepared / Live / Recently Ended), unique visitors, and subscribers, with a three-tip carousel for sharing your channel. - Redesigned Profile screen — Refreshed Rivea Run identity surface with avatar (tap to replace), role-colored stroke, social handles (Instagram, TikTok, Slug), edit-in-place rows, and a copy-to-clipboard slug. Feature tips carousel — Reusable auto-rotating tips (5s rotation, pauses on swipe, respects reduced motion) on the session type picker and channel detail screens. - Full German localization — Live run tracker, session type picker, settings sheet, training/race setup, slug onboarding, sharing step, and video feed are now fully localized in German and English. - Channel visitor count now shows lifetime unique visitors instead of the 30-day window. Bugfixes: - Fixed inverted German/English translations — The English UI was showing German strings and vice versa for ~150 keys (Profile, WhatsNew, EventView, SplashView, Feedback, TravelView, etc.). Apple's standard convention is now restored. - Fixed missing translations on the You tab and Channel Detail screen — 54 keys were rendering as raw identifiers (e.g. YouTab.Title) instead of localized text. - Fixed crash when loading sessions — Sessions containing date or timestamp fields no longer trigger a hard crash; corrupt/test sessions are now silently filtered. - Fixed Prepared status always showing "Delayed" — Training sessions now correctly show "Ready" when the event is not in the future. - Fixed proper nouns in TravelView — "HVV" and "MOIA" are no longer mislabeled as "Info" in the German version.

Feature: - Brand-new onboarding flow — guided 12-step setup walks you through nickname, birthday, photo, social handles and your runner slug. Skip steps and come back to them later. - Smarter feature gating — tapping a locked feature now drops you back into onboarding exactly where you left off, instead of starting over. Bufix:: - Fixed an issue where a finished run could reappear in the run tracker days later when reopening the app. - Improved Apple Watch handoff — runs you finish on the watch are now reliably marked done on the phone, even after a force-quit. - Stale "active" sessions older than 24 hours are now cleaned up automatically on app start, so you always land on a fresh session picker.

Features: - Spectator reactions now arrive on your iPhone with haptic feedback during runs — feel the energy from your supporters in real time. - In Apple Watch mode, spectator reactions and voice messages are now reliably delivered to your watch, even when the screen is off. - Voice messages from spectators now play through the Apple Watch speaker during workouts. - In Apple Watch mode, the run is started directly from your wrist — the iPhone shows "Start from Watch" to guide you. Bugfix: Fixed a race condition that could prevent a run from being marked as finished in the backend when stopping from the Apple Watch. Fixed an issue where the Apple Watch could be suspended during workout pauses, potentially ending the session prematurely. Improved cold-launch recovery — if the iPhone app is restarted while a watch workout is active, the session reconnects automatically.

New Features: - Full video onboarding: 7 short videos walk you through every feature before your first session - Video feed accessible anytime from the session launcher and settings - Automatic language fallback: English users see German videos until English recordings are available - Sign in with Apple is now required before setting up your tracking link Bug Fixes: - Fixed an issue where reserving a slug could fail silently, leaving orphaned entries - Slug reservation now uses an atomic transaction to prevent duplicate or conflicting claims - Previously claimed slugs are cleaned up automatically if you re-claim a new one - The "Claim" button is now disabled until availability has been fully verified - Non-URL-compatible characters (accented letters, special characters) are now stripped from slug input in real time - Availability check no longer returns false positives on network errors

FEATURES - Video Guide: Swipe through short video clips explaining every Rivea Run feature — Pre-Race Room, Voice Messages, Locked Moments, Live ETA, and Memory Pages. Available from the session launcher and the main menu. - Interactive Onboarding: A 4-slide carousel introduces new users to the key features before their first session. - New typography and refined color palette across the onboarding experience. FIXES - Resolved an issue where the session launcher card could overlap with other UI elements. - Improved video playback reliability on first launch.

New: - Hamburg Half Marathon is now available Improvements: - Profile pictures now sync to live tracking Bug fixes: - Login is now required before setting up a live session

Bug fixes: - Voice messages now play automatically with the default setting. Previously, the toggle had to be switched once for the setting to take effect. Improvements: - GPS is no longer throttled. - Music playback now resumes automatically after you finish a recording.

Features: - Apple Watch standby support

Features: - Improved video and photo upload

Features: Influencer Tracking Mode Voice, image, and video interaction during your run Add content that gets unlocked for your followers during the run

Bug fix: WhatsNew fix

Tipps & News section Hamburg Marathon 2026

Improvements: - Main menu design improvement