iRunning 1.2.2 is rolling out on the App Store. It’s the biggest update since training plans arrived, and most of it came from the same place as always: your feedback.

Turn your run into a video

Share › Video replays your route as an animated clip, with distance, pace, time and heart rate counting up as the dot moves. Five overlay styles, story or portrait format, a light, dark or satellite map, an optional 3D view, and a camera that follows you. Save it to Photos, or hand it straight to Instagram Stories or TikTok.

It’s free for everyone. No subscription needed.

Frames from three run videos of the same Central Park loop: Ink style on a light map, Frosted glass on a dark map, and Brand block on a 3D satellite map
The same run in three of the five styles.

There’s a still version too: map photos put your route and stats on a map image in the same five styles, in Share › Image under the Map filter.

The full walkthrough is in Turn Your Run Into a Video for Instagram Stories and TikTok.

20 new training plans

The catalog goes from 21 plans to 41. The headline group is Chase a time: four plans with one number on them.

  • Sub-30 5K, Sub-60 10K, Sub-2h Half Marathon, Sub-4 Marathon: fixed goal, fixed paces, reps a touch under goal pace, tempos a touch over, and a time trial at the end.

Two groups are entirely new: Hiking & rucking (Rucking: First 8 Weeks, Trek Ready) and After 50 (First 5K After 50, Strong Runs at 50+). And spread across the others: Japanese Walking, Walk a Half Marathon, First 15K / 10-Miler, Run-Walk Half Marathon, First 50K, Faster Mile, Fitness Race 8 × 1 km, Zone 2 Base Builder, The 30-Minute Runner, 28-Day Streak, Postnatal Return to Running and 12-3-30 Incline Walk.

We’ve started writing about them: Sub-30 5K, Japanese Walking and Zone 2 Base Builder each have their own guide.

Dark mode

Long requested, finally here. Settings › Customise › Appearance offers Light, Dark or System. The app stays daylight-first by default; switch to Dark or System if you run at night or just prefer it.

Two iRunning screens in dark mode: the Appearance menu in Settings with Light mode, Dark mode and System, and a run summary with a dark map
Appearance in Settings, and a run summary in the dark theme.

Smarter tracking

  • Indoor or outdoor. Pick Indoor on the workout screen before a treadmill run. The app skips GPS and saves the workout to Apple Health as an indoor run. Time-based intervals, voice cues, heart rate and cadence all work as usual. See Treadmill Intervals That Don’t Feel Like a Hamster Wheel.
  • Runs and walks are told apart automatically, from your cadence and speed, so each workout lands in Apple Health as the right type even if you started a “run” and walked it.
  • Re-sync with Health. Edited a run that’s already in Apple Health? Open it and tap the “Saved to Health” pill to rewrite it with the latest data. This applies to runs iRunning saved itself; runs imported from Health belong to their original app.

Export many runs at once

In History, long-press a run, tap Select, pick as many as you like, and export them together as FIT or GPX. Two or more runs come as a single ZIP. Batch export is part of iRunning Premium, like the single-run GPX and FIT export.

Also in this release

  • iCloud sync has its own switch in Settings › Devices. It’s off until you turn it on, and it’s part of Premium. If you were syncing before, flip it back on after updating.
  • Polish across the run screens, History and plans.

Fixed

  • Pace targets and pace alerts now display correctly in miles.
  • A run whose workout you deleted in the Apple Health app can be saved to Health again.

How to get it

Update to iRunning 1.2.2 on the App Store. Then open a recent run, tap Share, and try Video. We’d love to see what you make.

Thanks for the feedback that shaped this release. Keep it coming.