Strava finally gave Apple Watch users a WorkOutdoors-style feature they’ve been missing from the Workout app for years

• Strava has launched a new feature for Apple Watch that allows you to view and follow a pre-generated route map
• This allows you to view a map on your wrist and follow a route, ensuring you run a precise distance and don’t get lost.
• This is a feature that other apps like AllTrails and other watches like Garmin have had for years.

As Techradar’s senior fitness and wearables editor, I test smartwatches of all types. However, in my day-to-day life, I generally use Garmin. There are a couple of reasons for this, but one of the biggest is that I’m a regular runner and Garmin has one of the most comprehensive running feature sets of all the different categories of wearables. In particular, many of the best Garmin watches let you generate routes in the Garmin Connect app, sync them with your watch, and follow a full-color map on your wrist.

Users of even the best Apple Watches can’t do this, at least not natively within Apple’s Workout app. You must switch apps from Workout to Maps, run Workout in the background, and have a destination or route preloaded in the Maps app. It’s frustrating and annoying.