The share cards, and which one suits the run

Open a run, tap ⋯, then Share. A strip of previews slides across the screen, already filled in with this run. Swipe to the one you want, tap Share, and it goes wherever the iOS share sheet can send an image: Messages, a chat app, Photos, a story.

The map on any card follows your Share Map Style setting, satellite or street. Everything else on a card is the run itself.

Your own photo

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The first card in the strip is empty until you give it a photo. Tap it and your photo library opens: pick the finish-line shot, the view from the top of the hill, the coffee afterwards. The run goes on top of it in white — distance, pace, heart rate and climb, with the route drawn as a plain line.

• Pick a tall photo. The card is story-shaped, so a portrait shot fills it as it is. A landscape one is cropped from the middle, so keep what matters in the centre.
• Any photo works, even a bright one. The bottom of the card darkens a little behind the numbers, so they stay readable on snow or a sunlit sky.
• The route shows its shape, not the streets. There’s no map behind the line, so the card shows where you went without showing where it was.
• It works on a treadmill run too. With no route to draw, the card shows your time where the climb would be.
• Wrong photo? Tap Change photo under the strip and pick again; the card redraws straight away.
• Apex Run only sees the photo you pick. You don’t give it access to your library, and the photo isn’t kept once you leave the run.

The other seven, on one run

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All seven below are the same 16.10 km loop of the Xi’an City Wall, so the differences are the cards, not the run. The first four are near-square, built for a chat bubble. The three on the last row are story-shaped.

Which one, when

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• A group chat or a message. One of the four near-square cards. They sit inside a chat bubble without being cropped, and the two without a map keep the neighbourhood out of it.
• A story. One of the three tall cards. They fill a phone screen top to bottom, which is what a story wants.
• The run was about the route. A map card, and the framed one if you want the route to read as a shape.
• The run was about the effort. The dark story card has max heart rate, cadence, stride and power; the white stats card has the same plus the heart rate trace. Both carry the zone bar, so a hard session looks hard.
• The run was about the hills. The last two story cards. One draws the heart rate over the elevation, the other colours the elevation by heart rate zone, so the climb and what it cost you are on the same line.
• It was an interval session. Two more cards appear on their own, one square and one story-shaped. The interval cards have their own page.

What the cards share

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• The zone bar is your time in each heart rate zone, the same bar as on the run’s Heart Rate Zones card.
• Intensity is average heart rate as a share of your max, the figure from the run’s Avg. Intensity card.
• The name and the icon are yours to change before you share: rename the run and the card picks it up.
• The weather chip is where and when the run started, not an average of the run.

Worth knowing

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• A treadmill run gets the photo card and the two no-map cards. Nothing to draw, so the five map cards stay out of the strip.
• No watch, no trace. The heart rate line and the zone bar need a heart rate recording. The cards still render; those parts are empty, and the photo card shows calories where the heart rate would be.
• Share a run twice and you get two files. Each tap renders a fresh image, so changing the map style, the run’s name or a metric card and sharing again gives you the updated card.
• The strip opens on the card you used last time, so a favourite is one tap away on every run. The photo card is the exception: each run needs its own photo, so the strip opens on the card beside it and the photo card waits at the front.
• Export to Image is not a card. ⋯ → Export to Image renders the whole run screen as one tall image and hands it to the same share sheet, for keeping rather than posting.