What is an active day

A day is active when you walk 6,000 steps or get 20 minutes of workout. Whichever comes first counts — you don’t need both.

You see both paths together on the Today screen. The bigger one is the one you said matters more to you during setup; the other one counts exactly the same.

Where the numbers come from

From Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android). Tada! doesn’t measure anything itself and there’s nothing to switch on — it just reads what’s already there.

What counts as a workout

A workout you start on your watch or in a sports app, and also one you add to your health app by hand. When two workouts overlap, only the longer one counts — otherwise a walk recorded while a run was also recording would count twice.

Minutes from the Exercise ring on Apple Watch and walks your watch detects on its own don’t count as workouts. That movement is already in your steps.