While soft-launched in May, Strava has now publicly announced Quick Edit, a feature that allows the fitness app users to swiftly edit their latest activities in a pop-up window. Now, when you finish and end a ride and open Strava, the Quick Edit feature for your new activity appears instantly.
This pop-up, taking up most of the screen, lets you tweak your activity before it hits the feed.
In the past, new Strava activities would automatically post to the feed based on your general settings. To personalise these posts, users had to navigate through the advanced edit menu (those three little dots). Quick Edit streamlines and fundamentally changes this process. None of the settings it offers – such as renaming an activity, adjusting privacy, or adding media – are new; they’re just closer at hand.
Quick Edit is available to all users – whether you’re paying for Strava Premium or not. That’s important from a privacy protection standpoint, particularly following last year’s introduction of direct messaging, which led to concerns from many users. But Quick Edit also has some positive networking potential; for example, using Quick Edit means an activity is less likely to be labelled “Morning Ride,” and if you’re chasing kudos, that matters. According to Strava, titled activities are nearly four times more likely to get kudos than those with the automatic labels.
Emphasis in privacy and personalisation
As with Strava’s more detailed edit feature, Quick Edit also allows users to hide specific details such as the start time, speed, heart rate, and route, addressing privacy concerns and giving users more confidence to post their activities with only the data they want to show. For those who need more customisation, Quick Edit also provides a shortcut to the traditional Advanced Edit screen, where you can edit gear, sport type, and map style – just like before.
“Each activity upload is a chance for Strava athletes to personalise their authentic story behind the effort. Quick Edit puts the power in the hands of our users to easily tailor what they share and how they connect with their community,” Zipporah Allen, Strava’s chief business officer, said in a press release.
There is one exception: Quick Edit is only available when activities are recorded on external devices. If you record directly in the Strava app, the feature won’t appear, and you’ll still be using the regular activity editing screen.
Quick Edit is the latest in a series of new features Strava has launched throughout the year, including Dark Mode, a Family Plan, and Weekly Heatmaps. The app, which claims over 125 million users globally, also added messaging and a tool to track the CO2 emissions saved by commuting by bike last year.
Earlier this month, Strava also launched the Metro for Academic Researchers Program, offering aggregated, anonymised data to support researchers and planners in understanding cycling and walking patterns.
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