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‎10-26-2018 18:54

‎10-26-2018 18:54

when I go for bike ride rather than a walk, how do I count the  ride as steps.
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‎10-27-2018 17:06

In response to WendyB

‎10-27-2018 17:06

When riding a bike, since the ionic is on the arm, at best the ionic will count the bumps the front wheel travels over. 

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‎10-26-2018 21:30

‎10-26-2018 21:30

If you are putting it into bike mode it will never count steps

 

Don't use it and count steps if that's what you want

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‎10-27-2018 17:06

In response to WendyB

‎10-27-2018 17:06

When riding a bike, since the ionic is on the arm, at best the ionic will count the bumps the front wheel travels over. 

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‎10-27-2018 19:00

In response to Rich_Laue

‎10-27-2018 19:00

Thanks
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‎11-08-2018 12:12

In response to bikewise

‎11-08-2018 12:12

That changed! I got my Ionic for Christmas, I ride 3-5 days a week - and my Ionic has ALWAYS counted my bike rides as steps. My iPhone counts every pedal stroke as a step, the Ionic is consistently lower, I’ve always assumed it was giving me a converted value. It does the same for swimming and stationary bike and my Nordictrack. Today I got zero steps and my steps per hour was zero for my 2 hour ride. Totally changed from the last 10 months. 

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