I was just pointing out that @shooj specifically said the activity had to be done on a watch.
I did not use a watch - I used the Wahoo app.
I was also able to track an outdoor hike this afternoon on my edge 500 cycling computer, then switch the activity type to walking within garmin connect - this then correctly showed as an outdoor activity (with the expected pink bar on the fitness graph) within the companion app.
Love this change! Thank you for including the running data visuals as well.
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Hi. I see a recent walking activity showing up for me in the companion app. Is this activity visible to only me in my feed or are my followers able to see this activity as well?
I’m wanting my outdoor walks to be private and not be show to my Zwift followers.
Outdoor activities are only visible to you
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Hello,
First of all, thank you for the job and updates. I have an old iPhone (iOS15.x) and could no longer update the ZC app but I still got the running/walks info now. I wish it could be toogled off by default, as I would be pleased to set a “ride” goal and not “all activities” one on ZC. But I understand it could be useful for many.
Well, now my concern: I’m wondering why the message on Monday morning before any update is so rude. I run/jog/walk/ride almost everyday and sync these activities and I’m afraid I could not stand that ZC just telling me I’m the biggest laziest person on earth if I didn’t sync anything by 8am on Monday morning. ZC could just check the data from the previous weeks or find something more motivating, maybe?
Anyway, it’s time to get some sweating with ZG #2 ;+)
Best,
Stéphane
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Hi All,
I’ve been on holiday in Australia (from the UK) since the middle of February and we were due to go back last Saturday but the situation in the Middle East has put a stop to that and I’m 10,500 miles away from my Zwift setup at home 
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I can’t run due to an old knee injury (and being too fat) so whilst I’ve been away, I’ve been doing lots of walking whilst wearing my Garmin Vivoactive 6 and have been happy to see these activities come across to my Zwift Companion app and earn a few extra XP.
Unfortunately, these activities since Monday haven’t come across. I’ve tried linking & unlinking access, phone & watch updates & every other possible solution I can find on google.
Any suggestions?
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Walks have been excluded but I think you could start a run on the Garmin and do a walk instead
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Today Thurs 5 March 2026
My Garmin walks stopped uploading to zwift on Tues., don’t know why.
I reset the link to Garmin (including history) but my last 2 walks still didn’t appear. All my previous walks are there.
Any body else notice this?
Thanks
Ross
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They disabled importing walks
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Is walks being excluded new? Because mine went through until the start of March. And now nothing seems to be going through.
Yes it’s a change
Ok thanks Paul.
Hi all - Shuji at Zwift HQ. I’m confirming that we have excluded walking activities from the Fitness Tracker.
I’ve also merged several different threads into this one.
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Thank you for the confirmation @shooj
This is a mistake, IMHO.
There needs to be an option to INCLUDE walks as well.
Plenty of people walk while using Zwift, and I’m sure they would like the option to have outdoor walks also included, just as outdoor cycling is included to Zwift cycling.
If Zwift wants to have a “Fitness Tracker”, it needs to track fitness, regardless of where it comes from.
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Will join the crowd and stating that eliminating walk imports is indeed a mistake. Walking on a treadmill with a foot pod in Zwift counts, therefore walks outdoors should count as well. It is the same activity, simply done in a different environment. The speed of the exercise should not matter.
If anything, there should be an option in the Zwift account to enable walk and run imports from third-party apps.
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Bring back walk activities………….
A lot of people can’t run for various injury reasons so it is the only option we have when not on the bike.
Walking is a good form of exercising so should be included in total fitness activities.
It would be interesting to know how many people have uploaded their walk activities in the short time it was available?
Work around: record your walk as a run on your Garmin device and it does sync then just change the activity back to a Walk in Garmin Connect
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Wow way to exclude those of us who can no longer run. I really appreciated being able to have my walks/hikes/rucking cross over to Zwift.
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For some reason Zwift PMs have a bad habit of not thinking about all their users, instead choosing a few who yelled first. In this case those “runners” who didn’t want to see walks were yelling, while those of us who want our walks including were happy (and mostly silent). So, Zwift decided that those yelling “must” be correct and “fixed” it. Of course, the best solution was simple, and right in front of them: Give the users the ability to toggle whether they want walks or not.
That appears to go against the Zwift mindset of “We know what is best, and don’t want the users to be able to decide what they want to see”. Go on a robopacer ride and attempt to look forward on a climb segment, the only way to see the road ahead is to completely disable the HUD, since the center if filled with a climb profile (which is one of the only things you can actually toggle by itself), place behind the segment leader, feathers, coffee cups, and name placards. Riders have been asking for toggles, and all we get is silence.
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