How to run or private ride on Strava

Diet doesn't have the best reputation for privacy and, by default, all your activities are public and visible to all. Despite this, you can change the privacy settings in any activity.

The three options are:

• Visible to all, regardless of whether they have a Strava account or not
• Visible to your followers
• Only visible to you

We suggest that you follow our guide to lock Strava privacy settings so that, at most, only your approved followers can see your activities. Despite this, if you want to appear in the Strava segment leaderboards, Your activities (or at least the best) must be public. Here's how to manage it.

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On your pc

To manage Strava privacy settings on a computer, go to Strava website, view the activity for which you want to change the privacy settings and click the icon “Edit” (the pencil) in the sidebar.

On “Privacy controls”, change “Who can see” a “Everybody”, “Followers” O “Only you”, according to the option you want.

view the activity for which you want to change the privacy settings and click the icon “Hide heart rate data” view the activity for which you want to change the privacy settings and click the icon.

With the Strava app

In the Strava app for iPhone and Android, navigate to the activity for which you want to change privacy settings. view the activity for which you want to change the privacy settings and click the icon “Setting” (three little dots), view the activity for which you want to change the privacy settings and click the icon “Edit”.

Scroll down to “Privacy controls” and change “Who can see” a “Everybody”, “Followers” O “Only you”, depending on who you want to be able to see your race.

view the activity for which you want to change the privacy settings and click the icon “Hide heart rate data” view the activity for which you want to change the privacy settings and click the icon.

Make all past activities private

If you have used Strava for a while and want to bulk edit the privacy settings of your past activities, you can only do it through a web browser. Head over to Strava and go to Settings> Privacy. On “Edit past activities”, select “Activity visibility” and, next, click on “Next”.

Please select “Everybody”, “Followers” O “Only you”, then click on “Next”.

Confirm your choice and Strava will update the privacy settings for all activities at the same time. If there is any activity that you want to be public so it can appear in a leaderboard, you can re-edit your privacy settings individually.

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By default, Strava shares a lot of information that you may not know you are sharing. Make sure to use available privacy controls to keep things under control.